De Canadese visuele en toondichter Steve McCaffery schreef een nawoord voor het net verschenen Verse and Worse Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 (red. Darren Wershler).

Georges Perec has always provided me with an inspirational model for writing and publishing: diversify, make each publication entirely different from the former. (As such, a publication such as Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet is utterly alien to my sensibility.)  My friend bp [nichols] constantly harangued me to gather together my former, current and future poetic writings into a single work: The Abstract Ruin and to make it “Panel III” of Carnival.  This I have never done.  However, I concur with him on one important credo: that those discrete units we call “poems”  gathered into those larger units we call “books” and sometimes partitioned into “decades”  are false discontinuities in that indescribable and unpredictable ontological praxis known as writing.  I certainly do not think that any writing (be it Charles Olson’s or Christine de Pisan’s) divides rationally or purposefully into decades and such artificial chronologizing impedes as much as it facilitates a pleasurable (or otherwise) encounter.