Search for the Reason Why New And Selected Poems

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, I began publishing in 1966 under the Ghost Press imprint, reasoning that a printer was of negligible utility separated from his equipment in jail, and that books dropped on the street without address or copyright would obscure the trail leading back to the source. After moving to San Francisco in the spring of 1968, and escaping the necessity of confounding prosecution, I abandoned the effacement and set my hand to producing titles of poetry under the Cold Mountain Publishing Company and Black Rabbit Press imprints. The colophons continued to confer all rights on everyone, or to the authors, without listing specific points of origin. I returned to Cleveland in 1968, traveled back to the West Coast in 1969, and retrenched in Cleveland in 1970. Married in this year, we moved around the city with less mileage but on the same scales of frequency. My wife’s drawings began to appear regularly as serigraphs on the covers of the books. The hands of four children surfaced as interior fingerprints, tailing off in the 90’s. In 2002 I retired from my job of 32 years as a dispatcher; that is, telling others where to go. With the aid of a global positioning device, I and my wife Carolyn moved to Charlestown, Ohio, as the ice was breaking up, revealing hubcaps and wildflowers at the sides of the roads.Kryss, Tom (T. L. ) is the author of 'Search for the Reason Why New And Selected Poems', published 2006 under ISBN 9780933087965 and ISBN 0933087969.