Last summer, I completed a collaboration with Catherine Kasper that I really enjoyed working on. I often discuss working on image-text collaborations with my poet friends, but this is one of the few that I was moved to follow through on (and Catherine and I have never even met each other).  I usually prefer to work on my own (although Johannes Göransson and I are in middle of creating a graphic novel together, the scope of which is growing into a beast, which is a very good thing).  Catherine published my collaboration with Kristen Iskandrian (the only other one I’ve completed) in American Letters & Commentary, and then she sent me her amazing poetry collection Lost Debris and asked if I had any ideas of how images might work with it (she had felt it was a collection that needed image).  I was profoundly unsettled my her imagistic writing, and imagistic writing is usually the last kind of writing that benefits from including graphic work.  But, I agreed with her, and I began to see compositions as I read her poems. I developed a method for this project of developing a single collage-drawing for each poem, in full color.  They each include Hergé-like figures (as that was my ax to grind last summer) and a background consisting of abstracted photo-collage. I’m really satisfied with the way this collaboration came out, and I hope that someone is moved to publish it as a book one day.  Here’s a few of the images. (There’s a couple more on my ‘Works’ page.)