Take It or Leave It (Shredded Ear, March 2025) is a sequence of “phonetic/cut up/spiritual translation-poems” from/inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s Un saison en enfar. The poems in Take It or Leave It do not stand alone but instead, in the spirit of Spicer’s Lorca, find resonance between Rimbaud’s hallucinations—his bridegrooms and his wine and his horrors—and a contemporary world of paranoia, vengeance, and proto-fascism.

Published as Shredded Ear no. 1, this is from an edition of 77 copies, of which 26 are numbered A—Z and signed by the poet. Lokta wrappers used for covers vary across the edition; at times, title has been tipped on the cover using translucent paper. The lettered edition may be purchased on Granary Books here; the regular edition may be purchased here.