Foreword; I; Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship; II; The Gull Wall; Remarks to a Poetry Workshop; The Lorca Working; Companion Spider; III; At the Locks of the Void: Cotranslating Aimé Césaire; A Tribute to Américo Ferrari; A Translational Understanding of Trilce #I; Introduction to Watchfiends & Rack Screams; Artaud's True Family, Glimpsed at Pompidou; IV; A Note on the Death of Paul Celan; Two Introductions: Gary Snyder and Michael Palmer; Padgett the Collaborator; Spider Sibyls; V; The Gospel According to Norton; Complexities of Witness
Summary
A penetrating exploration of poetic life by a veteran poet, translator, and editor
