In this chapter, Carbery offers an account of the composition of Robin Blaser's extended poetic project Image-Nations (1975–2007). Blaser's poetics is informed not only by a serious engagement with the intersubjective phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty but also his reliance on the poetics' of his close friends, and in particular Jack Spicer's theory of "The Practice of Outside'. In articulating this, Carbery emphasises "companionability', a term which brings together the social and the phenomenological in Blaser's work. Through reading Blaser alongside Merleau-Ponty, Carbery consolidates recent critical work on Blaser whilst presenting his own cohesive argument that Blaser's work relies on a phenomenological understanding of intersubjectivity, and in particular Merleau-Ponty's notion of the "Chiasm'.