Difficult to work more today with the girls home from school (Wednesday half day). I go through old notebooks and start to see patterns and preoccupations emerge.

Here are some projected sections for future posts:

- Poetry & Compression: Pound – Objectivists – H.D. – Mark Truscott

- The book as object: Blake – Raworth – Alan Halsey – Martin Corless-Smith

- How poetry appears: little magazines, chapbooks, e-journals, Blogs, readings

- Originality vs. Palimpsest: Rosemarie Waldrop – Blake & Milton – Jack Spicer – Emily Dickinson & Susan Howe – George Herbert’s Easter Wings – Harold Bloom

- Syntax: Gertrude Stein – Clark Coolidge – Christine Stewart – Hannah Weiner

- Poetry & the space of the page: Raworth, Graham Foust, Larry Eigner

- Poetry & Death: Peter Gizzi & Jack Spicer – Blanchot – Cocteau – Tarkovsky

- Using the poem to think with: W.C. Williams – Creeley – Coolidge – James Schuyler

- Poetry & colour & painting: Wallace Stevens – Barbara Guest – Frank O’Hara

- Poetry & Things: O’Hara – Berrigan - Ron Silliman - vs. Rilke & Heidegger

- Poetry & naming: Kenneth Koch - Lisa Jarnot – Christopher Smart – Coolidge – the Bible - Ogden Nash – Dr Seuss – Johann de Witt –

- Poetry and the ‘before language’: nursery rhymes – Kristeva & the ‘choric’ – Joyce’s Finnegans Wake – Joseph Ceravolo – Cy Twombly –

that’ll keep us going ...