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Gosh, what about us slackers who can barely make it to double digits? I'm a mere flea on these Aristophenean scales - I have four books of poetry, I think, plus a couple of chapbooks.... I do have a shelf full of weighty volumes of popular literature that _pretends_ to be translation...but none of them, long as they are, approach 800 pages. Wistfully A On 10/3/06, 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 > -- Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com