<div>"I like his poetry because it takes me into another world, one where wit conquers the pain of inadequacy and the sur-beautiful covers up the dingy hopelessness of reality. The test of a poet, for me, is whether or not he can take you into his...
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"I like his poetry because it takes me into another world, one where wit conquers the pain of inadequacy and the sur-beautiful covers up the dingy hopelessness of reality. The test of a poet, for me, is whether or not he can take you into his own world, his own creation, and fascinate you enough to stay there a while and savor the poems. i think Jack Anderson's poetry is a true record of an imagination."-Diane Wakoski
Contents; A Waking; Classical; In the Next Room; Napoleon's Retreat; The Princess of Feet-Above-Sea-Level; The Dread; Ceremony of Departure; Fiction; The White Chapter; Staring; Assembling the Evidence; A Dream of Metals; Winter Twilight; Night, Window, Wind; Blackhawk; Pages from an Imaginary Dream Book; Scavengers; Three Little Stories; Appearances; The Face Asleep; The State; Some Things That He Does; Health Poem; A Convalescence; The Casualties; Daily Luncheon Intention; The Man at the Campground; Hurricane; Weekend in Hollywood; The Streetcars; On the Road to the Eye Hospital
The Invention of New JerseyPaper Clip; A Dance of Definitions Around Their Words; Weather Report; Precipitation Monday; For Sure; Quotient; Toward an Inventory of the American Image; What Is Repeated; Where You Are
