I’m happy to report that my late afternoon reading of the Earl of Rochester’s “Upon Nothing” was interrupted by a phone call from a truly unique poet and thinker. I’ve commented on David Jaffin’s work on this blog before, and now I’m happy to say that perhaps we’ll be adding a volume of this “post-modern metaphysical” to our catalogue in the near future. The longer I spoke with Jaffin the more I wished that he was a neighbor here in Shin-Urayasu and not a resident of far-off Germany. We still have a tape of David reading his work, and I hope to have it up as part of Radio Ahadada sometime soon.

Just discovered that the wonderful artist Ben Leenen of Elephantine Press, Maastricht, Holland, has published a gorgeous edition of my “Night Commute”–a poem/process inspired by riding the Nishitetsu home late nights in Kyushu. I found the cover up at Picassonet, but haven’t yet gotten a copy. Can’t wait.