something

from the introduction:

Since 2009, I’ve been tweeting lines and collecting them into short pieces. Early on in the process, poems were being written in this manner. Later, the lines became more autonomous, and at some point I began to call the groupings sutras. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. Earlier this month, I collected 108 of them, all written in 2012, in book form and called it ‘one thing, nothing, everything.’

I then decided to select the “best” writings from the previous four collections and present them in this volume called ‘something.’ I’ve also included some new unpublished writings from the past few months and so have subtitled this book, ‘a little new and largely selected.’ They are collected from newest to oldest, and so the further into the book one proceeds, the more immature they may appear. That is part of this process in understanding.

Next will be a collection of peculiar stories gathered from a few books which will be called ‘anything.’

And these three books will form a series called ‘The Essential Son Rivers,’ none of which are truly essential. But we had some happiness. Some were originally written under the names of Aumshantidatta and Aum Dada, but I’ve come to see them all as the writings of Son Rivers (my legal name is Greg Perry and a few earlier collections have been published as such). These three represent a certain time in this phenomenon which appears to have come to a close. For now.