Is there a poet of comparable stature whose book are as physically inaccessible as those of Robert Grenier? At amazon.com there is nothing in print. They offer me a day at the beach for $95. I have to go to the rare book room to read him, since there is nothing checkoutable in the normal library stacks. He is not in Messerli's "Language Poetries, An Anthology," nor in "Poems for the Millenium." Luckily, there are a few poems in Hoover's "Postmodern American Poetry," and, of course, a more generous selection in Silliman's "In the American Tree." If it weren't for these two books, I'd have read no Grenier at all.

I wonder if I should read more Bill Berkson? Classes start tomorrow so today's my last day of free form bloggistry.