An Utter Waste of Time: Revisited
A planned annotated return to the early poems: what the younger writer saw, what persists, and what the work looks like from here.
The working idea is to place the original writing beside the artist who can now look back at it. Revisited would preserve an archival text, then add a clearly separated contemporary reflection: the circumstance behind it, a changed belief, an observation that still holds, or the evidence of a voice finding its form.
The project can connect the collection to recorded readings, thermal issues, new music and the Fateci Caso essays without rewriting the early work out of existence. The contrast is part of its value. A younger narrator's certainty and the later artist's questions can occupy the same page without one being used to erase the other.
The source collection is available. The annotations, definitive selection, sequencing and final editorial text are future work. Revisited is a working title and development proposal, not a second book already published.