Poetry. In POSITION PAPER, Carol Snow's project of noting the world in relation comes fully assembled. This New and Selected Poems gathers work from Artist and Model, a first book of singular poetic intelligence and attention (Michael Palmer), to what Brian Teare called the compassionately witty karesansui--collages citing Bash , Sappho, Picasso, Groucho--to new work in elegy to the poet's sister consolidating a startling range of means. The art of Henri Matisse, touchstone of invention and attention or gratitude, not madness, is one motif attending this collection; the stone and sand arrangement of the Zen garden at Ryoan-ji another; not to mention the 70 prepositions the poet memorized in Junior High School. Snow's work has been praised as brilliant, funny, subtle (Robert Hass), delicate, masterful (Cole Swenson), and a new and mesmerizing way of looking at things (Fanny Howe). Stones, art, family, elegy, error, perception, prepositions, permutations, likening ... like an only hope or home. The whole, a kind of suite.