Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

I. (poetry). ISBN 978-0-9843312-3-9 (poems)


Collaborations
S: Semaines de Suzanne (1997) with Jean Echenoz Mark Polizzotti Florence Delay Olivier Rolin Sonja Greenlee & Patrick Deville
Oulipo Compendium (1998) as editor with Alastair Brotchie.

Harry Mathews (born February 14 1930) is an American author of various novels volumes of poetry and short fiction and essays.