“Solitary Pleasures has been several years in the making. The poems come from a poetic daybook that I kept from April 24, 2004 to April 23, 2005. From the 365 poems, 35 were selected to appear in the book. Fabrizio Gilardino designed this first publication by &pages. The original proof of each poem was stamped-out by-hand, letter-by-letter in a painstaking process that took several months. The page proofs were then scanned and modified electronically. The graphic quality of the text obtained is unusual and striking.” — Fortner Anderson