This afternoon I finished The Hard Hours, the first section of Anthony Hecht's Collected Earlier Poems, and I'm overwhelmed. There were times when I had trouble breathing. I once had a first edition of The Hard Hours itself. How on earth I let that go I have no idea, except that I was an idiot. When I've read everything, including the Collected Later Poems, I'll try to say something more coherent about it. If I survive.
For some reason Foetry keeps popping up in my referral log, though there are no links that I can find. The thread the referrals point to is pretty disgusting — and I mean the thread itself, not the alleged favoritism. You wanna look, you can google. I'm not going back to the site.
Working on a new poem (poems?) and a rather lengthy blog entry on the line break in metrical vs nonmetrical verse. The blogging's inspired by Mark Ford's review of James Tate's Return to the City of White Donkeys in the Dec 2 NYRB and by a conversation mostly between Henry Gould and me in the comments to his post in response to questions (here and here) from Laura Carter about lineation. Laura Carter, by the way, is a student of Beth Gylys, author of Bodies that Hum (my wife and I both love it) and the just-released Spot in the Dark.
7:31:55 PM 
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