Placed Karesansui Poems Author:Carol Snow Placed is a poetic sequence that juxtaposes words, phrases, quotes, and lyric excerpts in the manner of stones in a Japanese dry-landscape Zen garden karesansui. "Subtexts" identify sources of quotations, ranging from Basho to the Marx Brothers. Time is stilled here, each one- or two-line poem, for rather than about insight,... more » is both brief and durable, inviting the reader to explore and reconsider a complex of associations.« less