Steve Carll
"from the series “Apophenic Epiphanies"
Author’s Note: These are poems I improvised while half-asleep in the morning in an attempt to give voice to the mind before its waking configuration is fully established. They were edited while I was fully awake; however, I tried to preserve as much as possible of the dreamlike logic and syntax.
Editor’s note: These poems are part of a series called "Apophenic Epiphanies", which itself is the fourth volume of a longer project called"Hypnopompic Diaries".
Steve Carll lives with his family in Arcata, California. His third full-length poetry collection, Hypnopompic Diaries (Books One and Two) is currently out from Alien Buddha Press. Earlier books include Tracheal Centrifuge (Factory School, 2006), Tao Drops, I Change (with Bill Marsh, Subpress, 2004), and several chapbooks. His work has recently appeared in Utriculi, New American Writing, and Typo. From 1988-1998, he edited the literary journal Antenym. Performance video of most of his poetry from 1991 to the present can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@stevecarll/videos.