[New-Poetry] My Book on the Taxonomy of Poetry

[Bob Grumman]

20 pages.  Cost of production aside from labor: $1.50.  Cost of postage: 
$.78 (in U.S.).  Price to you: zero if you e.mail me that you want a 
copy and give me your mailing address.  Offer good until 1 April 2011 or 
I run out of books, and there's no chance of that as there will be over 
ten copies in print.

Interesting details about the book:  The highest category (the 
"universe") in my taxonomy is Existence.  "Poetry" is several steps 
down.  I define poetry with extreme precision, but the definition is not 
very radical--basically that poetry is words and lineation, or some form 
thereof.  Its main defect is that it ends before classifying the kinds 
of poetry at the most specialized taxonomical levels--so cowboy poetry 
is not mentioned, nor linear-algebraic poetry.  The title of the book is 
/A Preliminary Taxonomy of Poetry/.  I hope one day to do a much more 
thorough one, but I'll need a lot more help than I got when trying to 
list all the schools of contemporary American poetry.

Question: has anyone in this country ever tried to create a taxonomy of 
poetry?  My impression is that no one has, which reflects badly on our 
literary critics much more than it reflects favorably on me.

--Bob
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