In an Era of Pillage

". . . My second birth, which occurred at 17, was by way of French Surrealism. Long before then poems had issued from me but they could find no real habitation, yet they did so when I was embraced, or should say was enveloped, by SURREALISM and by the words of the Manifestos of André Breton and his fellow friends and poets . . . Hence, many voices have merged or emerged in these, what I like to call automatiques, with the earliest to the latest gathered here. Perhaps, as days go by, they may constitute my Last Will and Testament to my audience of readers." From the Preface by Sotère Torregian