Day Book of a Virtual Poet

I don't think a book has so pleased me in years, just that it came so unintentionally to hand. I had been instrumental in getting City Honors School in Buffalo, NY online and then wanted to make some active contribution to the school's online writing program. The "Day Book" collects the pieces I thus wrote and then sent to the common listserv, CHOPS Online. As weeks and then months went by, they accumulated -- and I kept writing them all summer, despite school was out, because it became such fun. More than anything else, it was a place to say a great many things as a poet, to make clear what I valued, to witness the passing of friends as James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg and Denise Levertov, to keep the faith in my own way. Again, that it all becomes a book is a bonus I'd in no way anticipated. --Robert Creeley