A poetic and moving documentation of an artist's art and its impact, written by one extraordinary man about another.

Dalachinsky feels compelled not to capture and preserve these musical events, but rather to react to them and record his responses. He often follows the projected-verse/open-field writing technique of Charles Olson, which involves taking in everything in your field of vision, and experiencing stimuli through 'all six senses.'...Dalachinsky’s work also brings to mind the immediacy of Kerouac’s spontaneous prose. 'Poetry becomes like staves of music, writing within the musical realm,' Dalachinsky said. He often writes in glyphs, symbols that don’t resemble any written speech, as he’s listening to the music—his own private score. On the pages of Final Nite, words are strewn sparsely across the page in a seemingly random fashion—like the trailing notes at the end of an improvised solo.

Steve Dalachinsky is a poet of the real world in a time when reality is despised, dismissed, not understood or lied about.