Chords small white monkies in less than two decades

in less than two decades of writing

oorlogen en kruistochten

Die kan hard zijn en vol onheil

" as Alice Notley noted

waar ik niet meer in pas

Chords small white monkies in less than two decadesRaymond Crump Raymond Crumps poems were first published in The English Intelligencer a hugely influential avant garde worksheet that ran between 1966 and 1968. A chapbook was published by the EEDIN Press, Saint Louis, in 1970. Writing of these early poems J. H. Prynne praised Crumps delicate use of rhyme glances of sound as echoes of place & touch. Part I of Chords selects from this early work. Part II presents 20 new poems, written since 2009.