we get from the "Keystone Reptile Club" to ancient Greek pithoi--large pots often used to bury the dead. The quick movement of thought and sound brings the past into the realm of the contemporary, making immediate a world that arrives not from idea, or knowledge, but through the improvisation of song. *
Like [John] Taggart, Roger Snell investigates the sonic possibilities of the poem in his first book-length collection--The Morning. Snell also continues a conversation with modernism, nodding in his work to Pound, Williams, Olson, and the Objectivists. It's curious to watch someone's affinities so nakedly distributed throughout a book--but a relief too.
from Dale Smith: Bookslut: Marsupial Inquirer: "Victory of the Song": John Taggart and Roger Snell
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