[Michael Juster]

In the primordial days before the Internet and West Chester when I was trying to teach myself how to write formal poetry in obscure isolation, I wore out my copy of Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms, so it is a great pleasure to have two poems of no enduring value included in his new revised and expanded edition. The index is a mess, but the text itself is a great delight by one of my favorite eccentric geniuses.

My pleasure is compounded by proximity to many past and current Eratoactivists: Mark Allinson, Catherine Chandler, Rhina Espaillat, Sam Gwynn, Jan Hodge, Robert Mezey and Robert Schechter (who has quite a number of poems included). Apologies if I or the index excluded anyone!

It would be an indispensable additon to your library even without the work of your friends.