"Hitler, for example -- we know he read a lot of Bulwer-Lytton. Osama bin Laden used to read quite a lot of Western science fiction." (via Metafilter)

Often i have thought, since the 80's, when i published with Xerox Sutra (now Xexoxial)--all of whose books had that proportion--that chapbooks were best that had about half text & half pictures. Perhaps they were just too far ahead of their time. Xerox Sutra also pioneered print-on-demand, & although i expect that to become the dominant mode eventually, right now it is something of a curiosity. So now i am thinking of having one of my early chapbooks in that mode scanned in, & if i can get someone to make a pdf of it for me i will sell it at Cafe Press like Fungoids...

I have a 70's facsimile of John Gray's Silverpoints--perhaps the most characteristic poembook of the 1890's--but the poems themselves are just not up to the legend of the book itself. But i've been reading poems by New Zealand poet Charles Spear (on the blog Nacreous Oughts), & i think these are what should have been the contents of Silverpoints...