xzentrick libretti

Please run over to Xzentrick Libretti and take a look at Piece in 940 Parts .

There is certainly much more to this work than its length -- which is precisely what makes its length all the more stunning. I started reading at the top then noticed the sliver of a widget on the scrollbar -- so I scrollled down and down, stopping once in awhile to read a few stanzas, each of them interesting enough to tempt me continue reading from line to line until far past my bedtime.

I can't help wondering about the process behind this, e.g., how long it took to write, and the degree to which it was improvised vs pieced together from pre-existing fragments and texts. Most of my own poems tend to start out as collections of words and phrases from other texts -- even so, the longest poem I've worked on in recent memory I wrote over a period of several weeks and completed about 3 pages by the time I called it quits out of exhaustion . . .