Ley Lines II

As far as I can tell, my first "A line from..." poem used as its prompt words found in a Ron Silliman piece. Jackson Mac Low, Charles Mingus, Paracelsus, Gunter Grass, Friedrich Durrenmatt, & Calvin Coolidge weren't far behind. But three years before them came "A poem beginning with a line from Foucault" & "A poem ending with a line from Pablo Neruda." & before them all - in my multiverse, at least - was Robert Duncan's "A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar." There is a history which is there to be taken advantage of. Chance meetings, long associations, stochastic processes. Google as partner on the dance floor. Out of it, along one - dare I say it? - line, have come more than 500 of these "A line from..." poems, encompassing poets, musicians, politicians of many persuasions, scientists, painters, actors, philosophers, as well as all of the American Presidents & some of the sycophantic staff of one of the more recent. So who'll have the next fangoogle with me? Mark Young