Monday, March 22, 2004

 

Work on Novelty Act goes apace. I have cover art, which I'll probably post later, seven poems I can call "finished," and around fifteen that need a little bit of tweaking here and there...generally just a line or two that needs erasing or reimagining. I've been reading over the drafts and am a little bit amazed at the variety...I managed to keep my over-syntaxification-and-cause-and-effectiness at bay until the last few poems, and in those, a tighter ordering seems to work. I also seem to get along much better with "translating" poems from Slavic languages than from Italian.

Tentative TOC:

Bullfinch's B-Side
Threaded
Conditions of Work
The House of Craft Doesn't Give a Damn for You
The Concealments
The Raygun
Too Late Now
Domesticity
My Baby
Written
The Waves, Having Been Otherwise, Now Become the Waves
Love in the Time of Artistic Upheaval
Vinograd Blues
Plans
The Perils of Humility
Et in Arcadia
The River
Better than TV
Permanently 1975
The Crossing
Ocean
The Missionary Learns that "Good" is a Relative Concept

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