Editor’s preface: and why we were all going
Williams’ poems collected in this pamphlet are all from a singular
perspective, but that perspective is not fixed, it is fluid. The work
is experiential and immediate like the scribblings on hundreds
of pages of a journal, the words within which have been torn up
reduced and compacted. Compressed with language over and
over again. Each poem is a small but intense gift, written for and
about loved ones, friends and family. Life encoded by being pared
back to understatement then wrapped in humour and hyperbole.