sentences:  My poems are for all those who are close to me and for whom poetry is important.You will recognize among these imaginary authors variants on the names of well known poets of our day such as Heanius who dedicated a poem in his own most recent book, Human Chain, to one Gregory of Corkus another poet in The Greek Anthology, Book XVII.These poets and poems give a sense of having already existed in another tradition and another language, a kind of parallel universe of our past and present and future.