'NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD' (FROM THEN) by Ammiel Alcalay (book)

While putting together a manuscript of work written between 1975-1990, Alcalay became dissatisfied with the notion of a “selected poems.” As a response, he began to comb through photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, journal entries, and newspaper clippings from the era, and incorporated them into his book; the result is a personal investigation into the  relationships of context to text, memory to nostalgia, and present attention to the multiple traces of the past.