[Jennifer Reeser]

Edited by Annie Finch and Alexandra Oliver, containing several Able Muse and Eratosphere poets: A. E. Stallings, Maryann Corbett, R.S. Gwynn, Anna Evans, John Whitworth, Mary Meriam, Catherine Tufariello and David Mason. Published by Penguin/Random House Books, London, in their Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series.

I represent Lesser Ionics in the book, with a second poem in the chapter on dactylic meter.

http://www.amazon.com/Measure-Anthol...re+annie+finch

[Martin Elster]

I just ordered a copy and look forward to reading it.

[Maryann Corbett]

Thanks for the shout-out, Jennifer. My copy came today. And I think we should say more about the book than that it has Sphere members in it. It's also got Auden, A.D. Hope, Sappho, Marilyn Hacker, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur. And "Casey at the Bat"! And I could go on for a very long time. And as Jennifer mentions indirectly, it's organized by meters and types of feet, and it explains them. It might even get me to try cretics and lesser ionics.

Really, people, you want a copy.

Editing back: I've discovered that you can get a look at the whole table of contents here.

[John Whitworth]

I HOPE I get a freebie. I don't even know what poem of mine is in it. Not The bloody Examiners again, I trust.

Come on if you've got it, tell me.

[Maryann Corbett]

Um, sorry to disappoint you, John. But I love your bloody Examiners, and that's what's in the book, representing dipodic meter.

Dunno whether we'll get freebies. I ordered one. If an extra shows up, I'm going to give to Common Good Books and see if I can get them to carry it.

[John Whitworth]

Thank you Maryann. Wot no freebie. What is the world coming too?

[Nausheen Eusuf]

This looks great! I just ordered one. Congrats to all involved.

Nausheen

[Jean L. Kreiling]

My order is in! Congratulations to all--this looks like a real gem.

[Mary Meriam]

Natasha, Наконец-то мы вместе

[Jennifer Reeser]

Da, Masha. Я улыбаюсь.


I think everyone should try lesser ionics. They are as fun, character-building and easy as declining Russian verbs. Or, as Carol Burnett said to Cosby regarding childbirth -- just pinch your bottom lip....then pull it over your head.