I've been over at CityLights.com, having a browse, and came across this book
which made me think we could do similar on the list here. That way we'd get
to know each other's poetry better >g<
Here's the blurb, plus publishing details:
'The first *McSweeney's* foray into contemporary poetry brings together 100
poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains, and making the publisher wonder why it
waited so long to try this. How it works: Ten poets choose a poem of their
own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the
fifth generation. Thus D. C. Berman leads to Charles Simic by way of James
Tate, and other chains run through Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright,
Michael Ondaatje, John Ashbery, Mark Doty, C. K. Wright, Dean Young, Yusef
Komunyakaa, and dozens more.
Publisher McSweeney's ISBN-10 1932416811 ISBN-13 9781932416817 Publication
Date 2007
List Price $14.00 '
I suggest we start with one poet who publishes a poem by him/herself and a
poem by another (active) member of this list, then just let it continue from
there, perhaps setting some kind of time limit on response - 48 hours or so.
Maybe Anny would like the end product for her internationally known site!
And when do we consider it finished? Hmm, people may join or become active
to be involved.
Anybody own the book mentioned above? It would be interesting to hear what
it is like. It's full title is 'The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking
Poets'.
Andrew
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