Poetry, rather than reason or logic, seems to follow more closely the unregulated movement of a wandering mind.

Modern and contemporary poetry, certainly from Gertrude Stein on, embraced this kind of linguistic fracture, that centers less on a singular meaning than a multiplicity of connections.

Like a dream, a poem is an other-space where imagination is unbound. Like a question, a poem supposes uncertainty. Some dreams, and perhaps some poems, inspire us to act. In Muse & Drudge , I wrote, “I dream a world / and then what.”

Harryette Mullen: Dreams, poems, and questions are opportunities to look for meaning. I wanted to begin this book with questions rather than declarations.