HCE : An Here Comes Everybody Anthology
By Lance Phillips (and some help from Geoffrey Gatza)


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    Book Information:

    . Paperback: 754 pages
    . Binding: Perfect-Bound
    . Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (March 2007)
    . ISBN: 1-934289-04-3

    $29.95

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For List of all 130 poets included please go to webpage!
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http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com  
http://www.blazevox.org/bk-lp.htm 


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FROM THE INTRODUCTION 
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is
obvious." 
    George Bernard Shaw


Ten Question! Lance Phillips asked the same ten question so as many writer
as he could email and those that responded, and respond they did, became one
of the hottest websites in the early days of blogging. A wildfire of
excitement grew. Lance had what we call a YouTube a moment of capturing the
right idea at the right moment. And this book is a gathering from that site.
The idea is of course not new. These 10 questions originally came from a
French series, "Bouillon de Culture" hosted by Bernard Pivot. It is probably
more familiar to many as the question James Lipton asks at the end of
"Inside the Actor's Studio." I've found these questions interesting among
friends. It's amazing what the simple answers to these questions reveal
about a person's thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Presented are 130 writers, each with their own 10 questions and their
answers. These questions are disarmingly simple steps towards attaining a
knowing, a greater understanding of person as poet. We also get a rare
glimpse at how each brain wraps around a seemingly obvious question. Each
author creates a charming portrait of themselves in their answers. Each
writer comes to their craft in their own way and here we have a splendid way
to engage each writer, in their own words, on a level playing field across a
large strata of information. Here comes everybody, indeed. 

This book conducts itself away from the interactions of a collection of
interviews. There is only the author and their reaction to the questions at
the moment in time they were asked them. Many of these are from 2003 through
2005. And so the biographic texts that accompany each set of answers are
deliberately left in their 'as-is' state. 

Also included in this volume is the reactions from friends, remarks made on
this website in the days following Robert Creeley's death. This one poet
influenced so many .... it is hard for me, even today to find the proper
words one has to say to get out what it is that this section is supposed to
do. The world no longer has a Creeley in it. This is a record, more or less,
a portrait, maybe, a snapshot of sorts of grief. A reaction of artist for
their artist, friend, mentor, father . so on. Here are questions, interviews
and poems submitted by Ed Smith, Joseph Lease, Chris Stroffolino, Jim Ellis,
Brent Cunningham, Elizabeth Robinson, Ann Lauterbach, Linh Dinh, Joel Lewis,
and Ken Rumble. 


I hope you enjoy this book as much as we have had in putting it together.
This is a captured frame of text in a wonderfully creative time. There is
war, a troubled government, a thriving internet culture, a wonderfully
safe/anonymous economically devoid environment to create our poetry. As the
title wrongly indicates, here is everybody, if you are not in this edition,
you will certainly appear in one of our upcoming editions of this series. 

Best Geoffrey 



Geoffrey Gatza
March 8, 2007





Best, Geoffrey
 
Geoffrey Gatza
BlazeVOX [books]
www.blazevox.org

-----Original Message-----
From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Deborah A. Meadows
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: message from Lance Phillips on Here Comes Everybody anthology

Dear Bflo list,
 
Poet Lance Phillips just passed on this message on how to order the newly
produced Here Comes Everybody anthology (co-edited with Geoffrey Gatza) with
a request to pass on the message due to a hard drive crash. 
Thanks,
Deborah Meadows
 
Here:
  
Listen everybody I'm hoping you all can do me a favor.  The HCE anthology is
finally (this finally is directed at at none other than yours truly)
available.  There's info about how to obtain a copy at
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com
<https://exchange.csupomona.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://herecomesev
erybody.blogspot.com> .  Geoffrey Gatza deserves all the credit on this he
got the book finished with no help from me (in addition to being a
procrastinator the last nine months or so have been very difficult for me).
The favor I have in mind is this.  In addition to everything else going on
our hard drive crashed a couple of weeks ago and I lost some things
including my HCE email list.  I'm trying to pick it out of a rather long
back-up document but its not going well.  I have been able to retrieve some
emails, yours among them.  I hoping you all can spread the word about the
anthology either by forwarding this email to whom ever you think would be
interested, by posting something about the anthology on your blog or a
listserv or just by mentioning the anthology to a couple of friends.  
 
Thanks, 
 
Lance 
http://lancephillips.blogspot
<https://exchange.csupomona.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://lancephilli
ps.blogspot.com>