Stet Selected Poems

But if the experience of both art and world is non-linear and polyphonic-many voices clamoring simultaneously for attention-the problem for the artist is how, as the work proceeds, to suggest the presence of those other voices. Bach injects discords suggesting the presence of unheard, parallel harmonic structures; Kozer changes tone, linguistic class, reference, and language itself, each echoing beyond its enunciation.The "logic" of the movement moment to moment within Kozer's poems is often profoundly non-logical-the accident of two words sharing a phoneme may lead from one universe of allusion to another, one image suggesting the next. By the poem's end a tangle of pheonomena has been projected and a path found through it. This can be a dizzying experience for reader or listener. We're being asked to tease out the complexities as we proceed, and we can only proceed by immersion.