IF EVER THEN ALWAYS
TOM BLOOD & CURTIS KNAPP

Tom Blood and Curtis Knapp wrote these poems from the Spring of 1997 to the Fall of 1999 in Portland, OR, State College, PA, and Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. Though not co-written, the authors edited the poems jointly with Michael Knapp.

Tom Blood was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1973. He was involved with and published in the journal Rococo Anerca. In 2007 he received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for his first book, The Sky Position. He currently lives between Portland, OR and Minneapolis, MN.

Curtis Knapp was born in Philadelphia, 1973. He co-founded, co-edited, and contributed to the journals The Unkempt, and Rococo Anerca, and edited Blood's The Sky Position. He has judged for the Matthew Mihelcic Award for Poetry. He co-founded the label Marriage Records, and lives in Portland.

ISBN: 978-1-934399-07-1
COVER: 1/0, TEXT: 1/1
72 PP, LETTERPRESSED, OFFSET
13.3 cm X 20 cm
FIRST PRINTING: 500
2008, 15 USD

FROM PAGE 42, "PARACHUTE":

what when you sleep? what when you climb alone into what when your blankets warm of your pressing? what when you sleep? what in your slower hour admit it? what in your kept grave? what then

remains among others of the same, who others of the same sleep whose same blankets warm? what when in your dream's technique gravity is meaningless? what then becomes core? what the core

becomes. and color is what is the color there? the robin's egg's light? the craypaper dusk? the rest of the world? rests. what when its light would finish the difference from dark shadow to form? with whom

would you sleep after that? with whom that cares. they ought to be. in the way that they deserve. they sleep in the shoulder. in name's shoulder. in the grave. in our perfect older hour. what you leave

rest to say. what you believe may have an effect on the grave, what you give. intended to comfort the beetles whose shells though black shine. even they shine. even inanimate our perfect diamond. even

around our diamond. our inside triangle. our closest act. states country. still she sleeps still he sleeps yet they dream. where they are dream where they go. they state a country. say they state ours.