WORDS APART AND OTHERS

In his poems, Jonas Mekas, the legendary filmmaker and artist, takes a Dantean journey down through the circles that surround the se lf. And like Dante, instead of seeing horizontally from some fixed place to the horizon, Mekas sees vertically, but from the lit wor ld into the depths of experience. Besides enacting a vertiginous examination of the meaning of a life, the striking verticality of h is lines functions like an auger 'going / deeper, / deeper / in.