Just been scribbling for an hour or so about Keith Waldrop's Transcendental Studies - a distilled form of which will transfer to the Blog in a day or two.

While it's less immediately appealing than - say - the Jacob Delafon* volume or the early 'conversational' poems, it pulls together so many disparate ideas that I've been having about collage principles and issues of 'meaning' as against 'sense'.

For now, a phrase I hit upon in one of the poems in section 'One' of Shipwreck in Haven:

disquieting thought

What a brilliant description of poetry itself! The more I look at this phrase the more it seems to suggest.

More to follow ...

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* I see KW's photo on the back of Transcendental Studies is credited to Delafon. That's a good one.