Days

Days involves several conflicting impulses. Many of the poems ask to be understood by being voiced, the saying of them being a process of sorting out their multiple syntactical directions, the saying of them aloud being a manifestation of their specific music. Others have key elements that can only be read silently, can only be taken in as part of a print or silent-reading experience. All of the Days poems involve handwritten elements, from a minimum of the date to marginalia, source-notes, variants, and over-writing.