Not to make light of anything as important aas naked women, it's a peachy idea.
Incidentally, for those who haven't checked Steve's blog recently,
aside from the smart pictures and words he's offering signed copies
of his latest book, Walking Theory, at $12 a copy. Better even than stealing.
Mark
At 05:09 PM 11/5/2007, you wrote:
>I hope the poet organizes a huge public reading of the whole work.
>The work's contents seems to require that kind of vocal
>manifestation in order to keep the focus on Human Rights and take
>away the relatively easy media focus on its metric lenghth
>and place in the G Book of World Records. The
>attention to "mine is longer than yours" seems to lead more
>often than not to breaches of human rights.
>
> The work is nice change from the typical (around here) array of
> naked women's bodies on the beach spelling out the word "IMPEACH".
>
> I do hope his poetry is interesting, too!
>
> Stephen
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Currently home of the Yellow Spotted Family
> (photograph with text).
>
>
>
>On 31/10/2007, Caleb Cluff wrote:
> > Frenchman displays world's longest poem
> >
> > Posted Sat Aug 5, 2006 6:04am AEST
> >
> > A 30-year-old Frenchman has put on display what he says is the longest poem
> > in world - nearly 7,600 verses written on a roll of fabric that
> stretches to
> > almost one kilometre on a car-race track in south-east France.
> >
> > Patrick Huet, a public notary, spent a month-and-a-half composing
> *Pieces of
> > Hope to the Echo of the World* and then a further month copying it onto the
> > material, which was unrolled with the help of a tractor.
> >
> > The work is an acrostic, a poem in which the first letters of each verse
> > spell out a message - in this case the text of the 30 articles of the 1948
> > Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
> >
> > "It came from a deep pressure inside me, a burning desire to express myself
> > on the terrible scourges that have afflicted humanity for so many
> > generations that we lose count," Mr Huet said.
> >
> > The display was witnessed by a court official so the 7,547 verses and
> > 994.1metres can be attested before the
> > *Guinness Book of Records*.
> >
> > Mr Huet has already written two shorter poems of 66 and 72 metres.
> >
> > - *AFP*
> >
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