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Mark Kobo claims to be America’s most famous poet. He takes out advertisements each month in the New York Book of Review. He also calls himself the Greatest Living Poet. Xlibris (a self-publishing company for people who can't get their books accepted by real publishers) releases this "masterpiece" of American idiom by Mark Staber Kobo.
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Strange Gods, Bulk Prophecies
August 1, 2001, Xlibris Corporation
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in English
- 2nd expanded edition 2003
140101108X 9781401011086
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"My rest is already done/ or I would not want it."
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Mark Kobo's original book Greatest Living Poets is a anthology of the lyric poems that came from the Chandos Ring Project. Published in 2001, it has become the best selling American book of poetry in England. Chandos Ring is a ten volumes series of science fiction epic poem telling the story of future men that have left Earth to continue the human race at the moons of Jupiter. Each book is divided into ten cantos containing, in turn, ten stand alone poems. The reader is therefore not forced to read long pages of unbroken lines of poetry that never seem to have an end - as are found in the traditional long poems in classic literature by Homer, Virgil, Milton.
Chandos Ring attempts to make innovations in areas of American literature that no other long poem has ever attempted. First, it is a poem of science fiction. Most traditional long poems are an account of an event, such as a battle, from the distant past. Chandos Ring is projected into the future - and contains no battles - the battles have already happened. Second, Chandos Ring is one of the first poems, ever, to have found a way to seamlessly integrate poetic descriptions of technology. Most poems, even modern poems, either avoid modern technology, or mention it with reluctance or as a resort to prose. In Chandos Ring all forms of technology must be mastered with poetry at the same level of all created things. Third, Chandos Ring is an epic poem in an age where long poems telling a narrative story are rare in the extreme. Any one of these achievements of Mark Chandos would be enough for any poet seeking to make an innovative contribution to American literature. To perform all three is daring, and perhaps, in the mind of most contemporary poets, an impossible task.
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