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Daniel Nussbaum's PL8SPK: Review link

Not by me, as we happen already to be fans of this book which brought Dan into the world of Budget Films thanks to my wife's fan letter to him way back, but by Christian Bok on "Harriet," the Poetry Foundation's blog. For those of you unfamiliar with Dan's work, he took, in pre-Net days, the thick DMV compilation of personalized California license plates and composed poetry, stories, and humor from the vocabulary, no spelling used more than once. For example, Hamlet's most famous soliloquy:

BBRNT2B? 2BORNOT 2BEE?
BBRNO2B? BBORNOT BEBE?
2BRNT2B? 2BRNTOB?
2BORWAT? CNTDCYD.
NDCISV. SLINGS. ARROWZ.
SEA OF TROUBLZ.
TODIE. PRCHNCE 2DREEEM.
YACKITY YACKYAK.
ITHINK 2MUCH. SHOULDI
MAYYBEE JSTDOIT?

Read more at the review, and better yet, find a copy of this Harper Collins 1994 delight bound like a plate with its silver cover, and its sequel, consigned to humbler paper, LASpeak.

http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/quick_review_04.html