sw00356a-pdm.count

Autobio


On this Year-day 120 this entry
will be a count of the poems,
ditties, and mutt objects
in my tlbajs journal.
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11:17 AM   May 11, 2007   Scroll down to "Okay" tally and suggestion note.
                                     You can use the above Journal Links Center e-whip
                                     to go to all of the major Sprintedon Hollow entries. 
2008-01-31   6:11 PM      Regarding the sentence immediately above:
                                         Obviously/ I removed the link mentioned, but it
          is near the bottom of the homepage/// which can be linked to below.    

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"Author's Quirky Introduction" is the initial Sprintedon Hollow entry.
In it are the first two poems of my This Day's Poem chapbook which is
otherwise known as simply TDP.  Three poems related to it which are not
specifically in it are under the general title: 3 Tonalities.  In today's count
I am including them in TDP as "Tonality 1" / "Tonality 2" / "Tonality 3":
3 poems/ because even though the same words are in each, their tonal
differences warrant this separateness.  They are at the sw00016tdp entry.
There also is a TDP poem of which there is an imagined discussion and
a consequent re-vision of that poem on the same entry.  That re-vision
is today being raised to separate-poem status.  Those two poems along
with the intervening words are at my sw00002tdp-2poems page.  It 
appears the TDP links entry may need to be upgraded.  If so, I will
do that later today.  With these changes, there are 40 "poems" in the
complete TDP online chapbook.  [12:34 PM]  Made some link fixes.
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1976: in 2006 comes next.  Consisting presently of 352 sonnets--366
sonnets were in 1976, the original 1980 version of a work intended to
celebrate the USA's bicentennial--it is to date my most ambitious and
complex endeavor.  See 2006/12/30/sw00056usabysc in archives.
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One awareness letter and 47 poems, the last being a somewhat long 
argumentative interior dialogue, follow.  The original version of this
work was printedin 1972.  I named it Rooted Sky.  Its present name 
is Rooted Sky 2007.  See 2007/01/07sw00063rsc.
5-11-07   In order that you may more clearly understand how I think,
              or (more accurately) thought, read the May, 1970, letter.
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Then comes a 1980 volume originally called Postures.  This book
presently has 57 poems, and it now is Postures 2007.  See sw00137pc.
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My ongoing Sets project is composed of sets of poems.  Each set has a
common tie.  In the first of the four sets so far, the tie is "cat".  In set two 
the tie is "ribbons".  In the third set the tie is "quadrunelle".  In the fourth 
set the tie is W. S. Merwin's 1973 book: Writings to an Unfinished 
Accompaniment.  Other sets are in the wings.  Like TDP, each set could
be regarded as an online chapbook.  Necessarily, I have had to provide a 
general entry.  See 2007/02/19/sw00215sgc.  7 + 6 + 6 + 37 = 56 to date.
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Other ongoing books are Venturings, The Undulant Trees,
and my Justan Tamarind fantasy epic's Book I from 1965/66.
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Venturings count: 10 poems
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T U T: 32
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J T: 6 of 101 stanzas
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There is online in this journal a small lyric narrative longpoem from 1966/67.
I haven't counted its lines yet, but I used 9 entries for it.  The title it has is
the name of the town I was born in.
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Lastly, there are 12 poems not affiliated with any book among my
autobio entries.
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Okay:  40 + 352 + 47 + 57 + 56 + 10 + 32 + 1 + 12 =                              607
which actually is not that many, but if you have the time and the
inclination, I suggest you read all of what is in Venturings first.
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Thank you.



Brian A. J. Salchert