Poetry. This major work of poetry, written with a form and texture reminiscent of musical score, takes its inspiration form Gertrude Stein's lectures on art and writing. "You can read them like pieces of sheet music, and though they appear to be simply painterly, they are ordered like abstract, mathematical notations. You hear what you want to see, and no one is there"--Fanny Howe. "This book stuns me every time I go back to it--it's so quiet, so calm, yet it accumulates into a tremendous presence based entirely in the senses"--Cole Swensen.