Sunday, January 25, 2004

 

These last three weeks have been insanely productive, so I'm thinking about funnelling this energy away from random poems, and into finishing the Calamity series. I've got eight finished Calamity poems, four in more or less set form but which still need a little revision, and three that I've got ideas for or have at least a few lines jotted down to guide me. I've envisioned twenty total, probably to form a chapbook. I'm thinking I'd like to get up to twenty-five now, though, and I could whittle down if I wanted then.

The idea for Calamity came from Gu Cheng's "The Bulin File," which is about a sort of larger-than-life trickster character...a few of the poems are available in Jerome Rothenberg's "Poems for the Millenium" Anthology, but I've had a hard time finding any others in English...it's just come to my attention, though, that there's now a volume of Cheng's selected poems available from Renditions, a press in Hong Kong. Huzzah!

God, I would love to read "Bulin's Composition for the Professional Lullaby Composers' Entrance Exam." With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.

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