And is it the most rigorous piece of lyrical whimsy in the American poetry canon? I think so.
The poem, “structured by six vertical progressions,” was first published in Underground, in 1966. It appeared the following year in An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, published by Something Else Press, and most recently appears in A Something Else Reader.
Cousin Richard says
I remember I REMEMBER by Ted Berrigan but don’t recall this anti dewdrop polemic.
Jan Herman says
Ha!
You mean these.
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/form/files/2015/03/Ted-Berrigan-from-The-Sonnets-1964.pdf
Richard Kostelanetz says
isn’t I REMEMBER by Joe Brainard?
Richard says
At least someone actually remembers! Yes, of course!
Alison Knowles says
and I loved making the silk-screen
Jan Herman says
Does anyone have a picture of the silkscreen?
I wld love to see it.
Is the silkscreen in the BAMPFA retrospective in Berkeley?
https://bampfa.org/program/alison-knowles-retrospective