Saturday, June 26, 2010

Money Getting


Been running a serial at The Kenyon Review Blog called Money Getting. It's a verse digest of P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting (1880).
Here's a sample of how a verse digest works...
Original sentence:

"It is a slavish position to get in, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his "teens," running in debt."

That sentence digested in verse:

a slavish position
running in debt


So far, seven of twenty-three parts posted: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII.