Shifts

About this book

"I wanted to do a project where I wrote a poem every day for ninety days. That was the amount of time I needed to qualify for health insurance at my cashier job. The only rule I made was that on the days I cashiered, the first line of the poem had to be the first thing I rang up at the grocery store that day. I noticed the randomness of the first thing I rang up often influenced the poems on a musical/sonic level. After three weeks the poems grew smaller and smaller; an indication I took that my project was over. Still I forced myself to complete thirty days. This publication is a document of the experiment, including the poems in barely edited form." -- From the Author's introduction.