As Landscape

Overview

"I never set out to write a poem. I will jot things down in my notebook, sometimes ideational, sometimes not, sometimes picked up from the environment, or misheard, or from a dream, and occasionally a phrase will have a rhythmic urgency that compels me to jot something further, and then I'm lost in process and have no idea where I or the poem is going. This is a liminal state fraught with both joy and terror, and it is processual. The process may extend over a few or many lines and take a few moments or days and months. It lasts until one emerges at the other end, back into the everyday, arrival signaled by the loss of urgency"from the author's Afterword.

Author Biography

Mark Weiss was a poet, editor, landscape explorer, citizen of the world. From his various places (New York, Tucson, San Diego, Scotland, Mexico, Cuba) he found poetry as it was, and excelled at getting some of the best of it to a wide public. The best of it certainly included his own.