Curb Three, Gold Coast Cafe, Hoboken New Jersey

Timothy Stanley: Do the poems strike one as less documentary than they might be if they were just presented alone with the tag in the case of Curb Three, Gold Coast Cafe, Hoboken, New Jersey as an orientation? The way it is now is we're challenged to think of the documentary quality as the prose note and the poems as something lyric that's not documentary. "I feel that maybe the presence of the prose passage afterwards takes a little bit of the documentary weight off of the poem," he says.