editing continued

Today I laid out the “poems” from the brown journal in two columns and printed them out on scrap paper, landscape. They leapt into life as a “book.”

I saw more that needed to be changed–the form informed the content. I started to see how the poems can interact with each other. I think it could make a very wild reading experience.

I want to take the draft to Bev’s meeting for feedback. I’d like to get someone to do some illustrations. Tricky. I have a vision and I’m not sure how to convey it. I see very loose, line drawings, not necessarily representational, not even necessarily portraying what the poems are about. Just an interesting counterpoint. I’d like the illustrator to bring another point of view to the work. I think the illustrator will have to have some understanding of what is happening poetically. Maybe not. I’d like to be surprised.

After that, I don’t know. Self-publish it, I guess.

It does feel good to be doing my own work.