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The scan-verified opening page frames the manuscript as poems written and pictures taken during 1975 by Jack Joseph Smith.

The spare centered lines make the collection feel diaristic and archival from the start: not only a book of poems, but a year's record of written and visual work.

The collection announces itself not as timeless artifact but as time-bound document — poems written, pictures taken, all during a single year. The insistence on 1975 as container makes the work feel diaristic, almost forensic, as though the year itself is the subject.