First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

Creeley lived in Waldoboro Maine Buffalo New York and Providence Rhode Island where he taught at Brown University. He was close with Charles Olson Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg John Wieners and Ed Dorn. In 1991 he joined colleagues Susan Howe Charles Bernstein Raymond Federman Robert Bertholf and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo.