Footnotes - Christopher Perricone

What are footnotes? They are appendages-subordinates-minions, even, to the text itself. Mostly they seemuntroubled by their humble position.
Occasionally, though,a footnote will erupt with a kind of violence, eager to breakout of its ignominy and offer something more than a doffing of the cap. These footnotes have something else to say,and they will
nd their way to say it. These are the footnotes that make up this book.
Footnotes is a series of riffs and meditations on humanlife and culture, with a particular interest in the play ofmeaning and sound. These notes aspire towards the condition of poetry, running the gamut from the profane to thesacred, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and from theperfectly clear to the profoundly obscure.
These are poems. But they are more than poems. Theyare footnotes that have broken loose. They deserve yourmost loving attention. They demand it.