Interview With the Poet Andrew Bradley staple-bound. 36 pp. $8.00 Click above to buy securely from Paypal or click below to buy through Amazon.com. Or send check or money order. Please include this order form when sending check by mail, and add applicable shipping and handling fees. (If ordering from abroad, please contact Plan B Press for shipping rates.)

This is Andrew Bradley's first book of poetry. The poems of Interview with the Poet represent a diverse cross section of his work, careening among an impressive array of stylistic modes, experiments and voices. Bradley insists on language as a deeply private and personal experience, while at the same time offering works that are uniquely "open" in their possibilities for association and meaning. Relying on often dense imagery and narrative line, the poems explore the layered and ambiguous relationships between imagination, the word and the world in tones of irony, wonder, melancholy and subtle and not-so-subtle humor. With a tenuous toe-hold on a crooked line stretching from the Metaphysical Poets and Romantics, to French Symbolism, Dada and Surrealism, through Stevens, the New York School and Language Poetry, Bradley's subjects and motifs are known to veer into territory associated more with the likes of Tex Avery, Billy Wilder and the Brothers Grimm- the emphasis always on the words as occasions for risk, bewilderment and discovery. He plans the readings surrounding this book as participatory events, inviting the audience in gentle, non-threatening ways to become part of work. from Untouched by Human Hands The road slips through a substance of silver air, churning moon these words and their soft catastrophes exhausting but not entering you. It's right to whisper to say shall I come to you in the way of things the wind deposits or to write the names of those strangled by their own roots in the crotch of this little book.