The Persnickety Reader

…to this blog: The Second Book project. I’ve been working on my second book of poems now for close to three years and am finding the experience a tough slog. I feel as though the next book has to be much better than the first: I’m trying new forms and new subject matter, and I’m just generally feeling the pressure (however much it is self-inflicted) to be better. I wondered last night about how others who have finally published their second book approached it, felt about the process, and all kinds of other quirks related to the writing, publication and reception of their second books. So I’m going to ask them. I’m developing a set of 3 or 4 questions and will soon send them out to poets who have published their second books. And then I’ll post them here as mini-interviews. Suggestions welcomed. I hope it will be a regular feature. Until, that is, I begin work on a third…