Author of twelve collections of poetry

Van Gogh Olive Grove, 1889

One of the things that I noticed about the poetry collection You are Here, found in the author introductions, is the vast amount of poetry written.  So many living poets that I've never heard, except for a handful, and each one has filled the world not just with poems, but BOOKS of poems.  That's inspiring.

Alberto Rios....He is the author of twelve collections of poetry...

She has also written four poetry collections, including...

Rigoberto G is the author of eighteen books of poetry and prose...

Jason S's fifth collection of poems....

Erika M is the author of six books of poems, including

...four collections of poetry

... author of five poetry collections, most recently

It makes me think of the haiku project I've started and stopped.  It makes me think of the suggestion to write a haiku a day to change your world (After a While It Opens you Up) (link).  And that creativity is a volume business (link).  It makes me think of Van Gogh's incredible output of paintings in the last years of his life.  

It makes me think about taking the time to write drafts and finish poems and collect them.  Both the writing and the collecting.  The benefits of becoming more attuned to the world in writing, and the brainwork involved in trying new structures, and the thinking involved in creating a variety of poems about a single topic, rather than just a lot of poems.  Collections: One a year? Two a year?  

Yesterday I had some time in the morning and began writing "seeds" for poems that involve time and acceleration.