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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* > >