<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>We meet next Friday at 3-5 in rm 116 of the Whitney Humanities center to discuss the work of Peter Gizzi. I'm sending along a brief poetics statement by Gizzi that appears in the extremely generative and useful anthology <i>Lyric Postmodernisms</i> edited by the late Reginald Shepherd and published by one of the great independent presses, Counterpath Press. <a href="http://www.counterpathpress.org/aupgs/shepherd/shepherd.html">http://www.counterpathpress.org/aupgs/shepherd/shepherd.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Counterpath is a great source for the kind of work that this group's discussion so often center around. <i>Lyric Postmodernisms</i> collects poems and poetics statements by poets whose work engages the possibilities (and impossibilities) of lyric in the age of high irony. It is worth a look.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Richard Deming, Co-coordinator and Group Footnoter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="652" width="424" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:65137AAE-AF87-4E30-B110-E04E45216EAE@chn.comcast.net"><img height="105" width="409" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C4441926-EA85-4900-B429-E92F7C249E0A@chn.comcast.net"></div></body></html>