buffalo small press fair met b gordon

 

a super nice guy, barrett gordon is. heard him read.  he lives in chicago and publishes with house press (http://housepress.org/authors/gordon/segs.html).  a couple of his lines triggered trailer park memories.   things i never write about.  rural poverty.  the way people talk in and around truck stops.  the smells and sounds of abandoned houses. rough and tumble kids with parents who jerry-rig everything in sight.  at the buffalo small press fair, i “got” vispo, i think, for the first time.