A collection of twelve formally distinct poems collaboratively written by the poets Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. Since 1992 the two poets have developed a repertoire of forms and procedures, all intended to extend the possibilities for invention, play, and the unfolding of unforeseeable meaning. Both poets embrace collaborative authorship as a means of challenging aesthetic preconceptions, including their own.

Jack Collom teaches ecology-poetics and oversees Project Outreach at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he has been resident faculty for over two decades. His books include Arguing With Something Plato Said, The Task, and Exchanges of Earth & Sky. He has worked extensively with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City and has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Red Car Goes By (a selected poems 1955-2000) was published by Tuumba Press. Collom lives in Boulder, CO.

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. She was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Published volumes of her writing include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life, Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad (written in collaboration with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten), The Cold of Poetry, and Sight, written in collaboration with Leslie Scalapino. Some of her most recent books include A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001), Slowly and The Beginner (both published by Tuumba Press, 2002), My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003), and The Fatalist (Omnidawn, 2003).