Poetry. "His dreams, his pessimistic resumes of childhood that are suddenly lanced by a joke, his surreal loves, his strangely lit landscapes with their inquisitive birds and disquieting flora, are fertile influences for me, though I hope I haven't stolen anything - well, better to steal than borrow, as Eliot more or less said. I can only hope that this first substantial gathering of Martory's poetry into a volume will be a revelation for others as well" -John Ashbery, from the Introduction