quick mention of Days by Hank Lazer (Lavender Ink 2002). it represents a year long project, daily ten-line poems. a note at the end explains his process, which is thoughtful and patient. there's method in his method. not strictly journal poems, nor does each day have a poem. the poem and the series is much edited, part of the process. the poems are fresh, flinty confections, but I mean there is a sweet pleasure to them, not to deny their depth. there are handwritten additions, crediting quotes and references or, like Dickinson, adding alternative readings. it's quite a lovely book. Bill Lavender is the publisher and credit should go to his typesetting, which is thoughtful and tasteful (and consistent with what I've seen of other examples of his typesetting). since I've just been reading Nada Gordon's work, I can see a vast difference in density, yet reaching toward a similar sense of made thing. like, Gordon writes in a language that's dense (not convoluted except as humanly possible) and wound up, whereas Lazer writes in one that's spare and unravelled. and the point is, they reach the same place, a poetry.