Fingerings for words
Selected poems by Jim Gross

From the Introduction by George Economou:

"The first sign that Jim Gross’s fine new book is the real thing is its title. Fingerings for words immediately connects the work of this “guitar with poet,” as its cover drawing title playfully puts it, with the seminal influence of the troubadours, whose practice involved setting together motz el son, words and music, in their art of trobar, upon a significant chapter in modern American poetry’s history via Ezra Pound and one of their greatest translators into our language, Paul Blackburn."