I wanted to use a poem from Ed Conti’s Hic Haiku Hoc but couldn’t fid my copy of the book.  That greatly irked me because I thought  my press had published it, and I have all its publications in labeled cartons stacked alphabetically in my living room/ warehouse.  Finally, I  e.mailed Ed asking for the text of the poem, which he sent back to me.  In his post he offered to send me a copy of his book.  Please do, I said.  It arrived today, and is as good as I remember.  In fact, I’ve added it to my little list of micropress books of major importance that I began as a contribution to a project Richard Kostelanetz invited me into but which I haven’t had time to do much about.  Make that, I’ve had the time but not the energy to do anything much about it, and probably never will.  I think I’ve listed ten or twelve books, though.  Richard has over a hundred on his list, I’m sure.  I don’t see the point in such a list unless accompanied by a serious essay on each book.  I’d love to do one on Ed’s book because I think light verse badly under-rated by the establishment, and because Ed–unconsciously, I’m pretty sure–has done a number of excellent humorous poems that I would call otherstream such as “The Party’s Over”:

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There are also some fine conventional pieces in Hic Haiku Hoc like:

 Meanwhile, I continue to be crashingly unproductive.

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