ABOUT THE AUTHOR
when
Alex Gildzen was a little boy in Elyria Ohio he inscribd a poem into the bark of a willow tree. ever since he's been depositing them in strange places. they appeard in both widely circulatd mags like 'Rolling Stone' & 'After Dark' & less circultd but cultishly-recalld titles like 'Marrahwannah Quarterly' & 'Stuffed Crocodile.' his first chapbook 'Into the Sea' was publishd by Abraxas Press in 1969 & his selectd poems 'The Avalanche of Time' by North Atlantic Books in 1986. more current work can be seen on his
website. Photo by Stathis Orphanos.
