[New-Poetry] Re: day book

[David Baratier]

Rob--

The name of the later book is _Daybook of a Virtual Poet_ it was an attempt to create a early hypertext but I would guess most of the links are long sour by now. 

We published the selected poems of the last editor of the Olsen Creeley correspondence, Richard Blevins, you might try it out if you wish escape from the short line's rigidity. 

Be well

David Baratier, Editor

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--- On Tue, 12/9/08, robert e. watling jr. <rewatlingjr at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: robert e. watling jr. <rewatlingjr at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Re: day book
> To: editor at pavementsaw.org, "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 6:00 PM
> 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.
> 
> --"Cogito ergo...how does that go
> again?"...rewjr.