Satori, this book that took my entire life to put together, is the
closest I can come to an answer. I see the whole book and every poem in
it as the working out of the endless possibilities of the line. In the
end, I came back to the Imagists-Pound, H.D., Amy Lowell, Jack Moodey
who taught me that the essence of the poetic line is the image, not the
metaphor, which decodes into a system of signs, but the hard, clear,
limpid image, the incontrovertible image. Without the image, the poetic
line is hollow. But the goal of our art from the cave paintings at
Chauvet to the '80s movie Blade Runner and on down has been to make art
move.