Why Letter Ellipses

“History is really an invitation/ by way of arranged language/ to read the occulted / in plain sight:/ a poem. // This book is a commingling of archives/ with copious attributions/ without peer review or a known market./ A history in which the document/ is contemporary nonfiction/ represented in verse // language’s contemporaneity taken back/ from archive-as-Empire’s governance/ and my poem journals are archival.” —from “CODA”