Thursday, July 21, 2011
“100th Greatest Poet of All Time Berrigan” read the blue underlined  headline in the Google reader on my iGoogle home page. I clicked the  link and it took me to the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog. “Is Ted  Berrigan exactly the 100th greatest poet of all time?” the blogger  wondered. The post went on to say that someone, I forget the name but it  was hyperlinked, argued just that. I stopped reading and clicked on the  link which took me to an article on The New York Times Website. “Ted  Berrigan is exactly the 100th greatest poet of all time,” the piece  began. I read a couple of more sentences, I forget what they were, but  they lead into a consideration of a volume of his called Face-off.  The writer explained that this was “a series of two-line quips that  played off each other culminating in. . . .” My mind added the ellipsis  in the dream as I began to consider my own short suite, was it any good,  of interlocking two-word insult poems which I had made a couple of  years ago and all but forgotten. I tried to get back to reading the  article but I started to drift toward wakefulness. I heard a small cry  and I thought it was my daughter, then I thought it was the cat, then I  realized it was nothing, which meant I was awake.
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Love it!
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