The poems/poems in progress that are roughly being grouped together under the rubric of the Fugue State poems seem also to include several of my older works.
Since I’m thinking of turning this all into my next chap (and/or of using it as the basis for the CD project), I’m curious: how many of you have an aversion to re-publishing your poems from previous chapbooks/CDs in newer chapbooks/CDs?
I’ve never done it — it’s sort of a point of pride with me that every chap was brand spanking new work — and I know I’ve been disappointed when upon buying a “new” chap from someone, I found poems I already had in a previous chap in substantially unaltered form.
This is not the same to my mind as “jumping up a level”, by the way — putting poems that were previously self-published into a “book-book”, to use the technical term.
Am I just ridiculously persnickety?
Dark Matter 
January 8th, 2004 at 6:55 am
No, I feel exactly the same way– the only way I’d repeat poems in a chapbook would be if I were doing a best-of chapbook containing only material from previous ones.
If I were you, I’d put out the chapbook with only the new fugue state poems– if there are enough of them– and put all of them, including the old, on the CD