An Old Poem Embedded in a Final Thought on the Airplane

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six collections, three of which were published in 2007: Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial; selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series), Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky Press; in collaboration with poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson and artist Noah Saterstrom) and A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues 2007). His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including: Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Denver Quarterly, Jacket, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Talisman, and the book Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.