Placed Karesansui Poems

Author: Carol Snow

Publisher: Counterpath (2008)

Placed is a poetic sequence that juxtaposes words, phrases, quotes, and lyric excerpts in the manner of stones in a Japanese dry-landscape Zen garden—karesansui. “Subtexts” identify sources of quotations, ranging from Basho to the Marx Brothers. Time is stilled here, each one or two line poem, for rather than about insight, is both brief and durable, inviting the reader to explore and reconsider a complex of associations.