[New-Poetry] Re: day book

[robert e. watling jr.]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:28:01 -0800, David Baratier  
<editor at pavementsaw.org> wrote:

> _A Day book_ wasn't poems, it was a prose experiment
> Bob had a follow up published by Spuyten Duyvil in the late 90's
> which does not appear in the collected either--
> Be well
> David Baratier, Editor

Thank you,
I read A Day Book as poetry, prose poetry, perhaps. Some of the explicitly  
personal passages I thought might have caused it to be left out later out  
of consideration of the person or persons mentioned in it by name. There  
were parts of the book that got into my head in an odd way. I'd hoped to  
reread it but I see it is available on ebay so I may pick it up again when  
I get to that point, after Pieces in the Collected Poems. The various  
biographies I've been able to find on-line aren't very detailed. At some  
point I read he'd been divorced three times and it occurred to me that  
some things written about while a relationship was on-going might not have  
been as well accepted by the principals after a divorce. Who knows? I did  
notice that A Day Book was listed on the "Also By" page in the list of his  
poetry. Any way, thanks for following up on this. I intend to read all the  
way through his work, at least his poetry and I'd be interested in any  
other insight you might offer. I've always been fascinated by his poetry,  
going back to my high school days when I read him in Donald Allen's The  
New American Poetry, a gift from my senior English teacher. Thanks  
again...rob.

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"Cogito ergo...how does that go again?"...rewjr.