[Tony Barnstone]

Hi Friends,

I am putting together my formal poetry workshop for the spring and want to beef up my set of examples of syllabic poetry. I have of course Marianne Moore and Dylan Thomas and some wonderful poems by Michael Hulse, but would love to have more that are amazing poems, good for teaching newcomers to poetry. I'm open to the Japanese on this, but tanka and haiku are usually translated as free verse or translated badly in form, padding out the poems so they are no longer precise and imagistic. If you know of some amazing translations that don't fall into those traps, I'd be grateful.

Also, I'm looking for a very rare form, word count poetry. My father, Willis, did a whole book in this form, Stickball on on 88th Street (http://redhen.org/book/?uuid=4BCD23F...7-2A3D077A8090), and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" is written in this form, but I haven't found other examples. Anyone know of some?

Thanks in advance,

Tony