Kiot: Selected Early Poems, 1963-1977

Front wrapper creased, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 2005 Soft Cover. 256 pp. You will see very soon this is a mode of address unlike any other. The young Charles Potts arrayed a serious arsenal of highly original stratagems to snag and sing disambiguated truth. The complexities keep being nudged toward simplicity and keep escaping to need rounding up again. It is poetry hard at work and hard at play. It is not about art. Its importance lies in its function--it is a process that, like digestion, becomes important because it strengthens. It is good because it nurtures its community, because it aids and comforts the allies.