That link is a great mini-anthology, Maryann. Coulette on Ginsberg made me laugh out loud. Does anyone know if the book Mezey mentioned ever got published ?
I couldn't find it online.
I can suddenly think of dozens of marvelous 12-line poems, so my own 11 line rule has already
come back to bite me ..
Actually, I hope it challenges us to come up with some lesser known poems.
I'll start with one by Wallace Stevens, which is on my mind having read the Brit/Yank/ Culture Discussion over on General Talk.
A Mythology Reflects its Region
A mythology reflects its region. Here
In Connecticut, we never lived in a time
When mythology was possible -- but if we had --
That raises the question of the image's truth.
The image must be of the nature of its creator.
It is the nature of its creator increased,
Heightened. It is he, anew, in a freshened youth
And it is he in the substance of his region,
Wood of his forests and stones out of his fields,
Or from under his mountain.
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