I take it you're kidding Kent. :)
KS
On 02/10/06, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Randolph asked Finegan:
>
> >What would you regard as an acceptable number of books for a poet to
> publish?
>
>
> If I can chime in. I would say at least thirteen. It is only upon
> reaching thirteen that one can say in one's author bio, "He/She has
> published more than a dozen books." It is the "more" that is all
> important. The "more" is silver coin in the process of cultural capital
> accumulation.
>
> After twelve, the only feasible number (one cannot say, for example,
> "She has published more than fourteen books") is twenty one: "He/She has
> publihsed more than twenty books."
>
> So I would say either thirteen or twenty one is acceptable. The next
> number would be thirty one, but only John Ashbery has published more
> than thirty books of poetry.
>
> Kent
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