Publisher's Synopsis
In esp: accumulation sonnets, Jay MillAr "listens in" to hear the language that passes through him, rather than the language he retains. He asks: if you throw out the nets, what will be caught? What will be missed? What will be miss-represented? And then, as time passes, what shall we do with these linear fragments of time that interleave their lyric eye among the wreckage of their own attention? Read them, of course. This sequence of 15-line sonnets operates in the way that Spicer spoke of the serial poem: you have to let the poems lead the way or you'll just wind up lost in the woods.
