Both these innovative writers have several publications to their credit. Noah Eli Gordon’s most recent collection, Novel Pictorial Noise, published by HarperCollins in 2007, was selected for the National Poetry Series by John Ashbery. Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk was the recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize in 2006. But tonight they join us to mark the arrival of their collaborative book, Figures for a Darkroom Voice ($14 Tarpaulin Sky). Their two voices may have joined into one voice, but the result is not so much a uniformity as it is an exponential expansion. Lively and odd, charming and poignant, this is poetry that takes snapshots of a story but does not tell one -- “stars are no map of civility in our garden of little let-downs.” Like a spliced film with frames missing, the volume’s quirky juxtapositions make it all the more startling, funny, and touching -- “there is nothing summer can do to us / that we could not ourselves develop in the basement.”