Driftwood at the River’s Edge

and other Cutup Poems, Bamboo Dart Press, 2023
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"Peter Wortsman self-deprecatingly refers to his cut-up poems as ‘strange assemblages,’ which is what I myself might have referred to them as before I encountered them. But, much to my amazement, they read to me as real poems—poems written with the startling help of a muse I myself would hardly have believed in before I read them. But I most certainly do now. These are works which, indeed, have, magically, been able “to find a form that accommodates the mess.” But what they create is anything but a mess… It is truly, much to my surprise, pleasure and amazement, art.”

Michael Blumenthal, the author of ten books of poems, including CORRECTING THE WORD: POEMS SELECTED & NEW, 1980-2024, forthcoming from The Ravenna Press