Simon is a remarkable writer with a pedigree stretching across the Beat(Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac, etc) generation and up through a whose-who of modern New York school of poets (Creeley, Ashbury, etc.). Simon is touring behind his new book of poems, More Winnowed Fragments, and has published six or seven books (some by Black Sparrow)."Like Beethoven's Bagatelles, Pettet's poems have a great deal to say, andtheir seemingly modest dimensions help rather than hinder his saying it. Anunorthodox lucidity reminiscent of Schuyler, a certain English dapplenessand an oriental conc ision blend in poetry whose sweet, complex fragrance isPettet's secret." - John Ashbery
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