Selected quotes from Jonathan Skinner's intro to
Joanne Kyger's TRAVEL POEMS


Joanne Kyger: 
 
"If you think you are responsible 
for an entire institution, time to go 
to Mexico."
 
                    («Patzcuaro»)
 
Jonathan Skinner:
 

	Olson took SPACE to 
Yucatan, digging with a spade that, 
while Melville may have brought it
home from his journeys on the open seas, 
was nevertheless a very (North) American spade. 
A counter development highlights the local, as
in Olson's Gloucester...

[Jonathan also makes a contrast to 
Olson by quoting
Creeley:]


HONG KONG - LAST WORDS
 
 
I want to get off 
the fucking world and 
sit down in a chair, 
and be there.
 
 

                      4/21 (Hello)  [New Directions]






[From Olson Letter 27:]



		An American 
is a complex of occasions,
themselves a geometry
of spatial nature.

	I have this sense,
that I am one
with my skin

		Plus this--plus this
that forever the geography
which leans in
on me I compel
backwards I compel Gloucester
to yield, to
change


	Polis
is this

RETURN