There are too many books and too few good poems.
Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Pierre Joris said:
>Jerry Rothenberg is now given as at "over
seventy," (which, admittedly includes his translations &
collaborations, but given that several of tthose come to over 800
pages a volume, they should count...),
Gosh, Pierre... *Of course* they count. In fact, in my book, a
collection of translations counts more than a collection of "original"
poetry! Poetry is merely the shadow of translation, really, though
convention has it the other way around.
And Poems for the Millennium counts for, say, ten books of original
poetry...
[obsequious curtsy...]
or were you being cleverly facetious?
Kent
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