Metafours for Mysophobes

by Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

From the author's introduction:

"After all these ruinous decades writing 'poems', I have had to invent a form that doesn't seem like poetry at all: the Metefour. It's crazy, it's nonsense, it's the anti-poem, it's the impure-poem, etc. But it strikes me that it can be read, dammit, because the line is strangely fresh. Count it out: Four words in every line. You must be kidding? Say whut! Mr Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington told us, 'You got to say it without saying it.'"

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

March 8, 1929 - March 16, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/boo...

Writer, photographer, and publisher. Founded the Jargon Society Press.