Matthew Cooperman

“I had this elaborate theory of [Theordore Enslin’s] “walking” habits, and I presented it at the National Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry of the 1960s” at the University of Maine. I was well into the paper when an éminence grise (it turned out to be Albert Gelpi) asked, “Well, Ted, whatcha think about this guy’s walking thesis?” From the other side of the room […] [Enslin] says, “I write while I walk, I cut the cards to size.” He gestured to his shirt pocket, where sure enough a stack of card like paper sat. In other words, the paper and the shirt size and the walk all corresponded, created a kind of physical limit that replicated itself each day.”