January 18, 2024 by Poet Lore Volume 116 Spring/Summer 2021 Guest Editor’s Note

Surrealism and Strangeness. Rereading through the following poems, I keep re-realizing that what I find strange and/or surreal is impossible. It’s image, I conclude at first. Then, no, I reconsider—it must be what we call voice. Or is it the spirit embodying the perspective that sees the image that is rendered in all its uniqueness? But what is the spirit…it is that easy to be derailed.

18 January 2024