Jody Azzouni

Jody's Notes

I'll admit it. Just as failing to publish a poem doesn't convince me there's something wrong with a poem--not even failing to publish it for decades does that--so too succeeding in publishing a poem doesn't convince me the poem works. I worry about this poem (I admit it): I worry about "Photon," in particular, that "Photon" doesn't work. Let alone "Ink," "Shroud," "Shadow." (I'm not claiming the poem doesn't work; I'm noting that I'm sometimes in the dark about these things. No matter how much time passes.) Admittedly, the success or failure of poems are synergestic matters; it's not single words that sink poems, not really, it's not even single lines.

I reprinted the poem in The Lust for Blueprints.