With the publication of part II of...

With the publication of part II of Iovis last spring, Anne Waldman's metrical composition is now six hundred forty-eight pages protracted Book I contains twenty-three and part II contains twenty-five individual metrical compositions or sections of varying long durations as short as three or four pages, as lengthy as twenty. Each section is preced by way of an italicized head, a third part plot summary also containing parallel information, side facts. The prevailing form for a section is an amalgam of metrical language and prose, the latter including notes from others, selections from interviews, dream narratives, journalistic facts and in such a manner ...