2010 BookThug Fall Launch:
Part 2 - Victor Coleman reading from The Occasional Troubadour
The Occasional Troubadour is a series of 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and cultural favourites generated by applying the mesostic form to a
late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes) by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Their lives and personalities, their songs
and their world (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1898-99). Readers of the late, great American composer/writer
John Cage will be familiar with the mesostic form.