“I am not sure what the ‘this’ in ‘Of This’ is, other than a general apprehension of the state of things in our political-cultural world: the sense that violence is always near, that it is difficult to know where to look, and the rational ‘grid’ has lost its bearings as a way to clarity. I was reading recently a dialogue between Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács on early modernist expressionism. I am always interested in how subjective and objective ideas of reality are parsed. Seriality is one way to think about (historical) temporality in which some things remain and others drop away, and there is a remainder, what remains. What remains endures; or we endure what remains. Formally, I like to see how the poem attaches to its materials.”