Sturgeon's Law

I'm currently reading and enjoying Zachary Schomburg's The Man Suit. In addition to liking the poems in general, I love the fact that he has a subject matter index at the back. In fact, I'm going to steal the idea for my book (though to be fair, I've also had an Index of Fun Words in The Eleventh Muse the last three years). Anyway, here are some things that will definitely be in my index:

• Colorado
• alcohol
• fishing
• apes and monkeys
• guns
• fire (and smoke)
• cars
  

I'm also debating whether to include slightly more big-picture items like depression, as well as more stylistic items like epigraphs. It's really interesting how much doing something like this will make you think about your own manuscript, especially if you didn't write it while thinking of all the poems in terms of how they'd fit in a book.

Labels: books, poetry