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>poets tend to send surprisingly little of their poetry to poetry mailing
>lists. why?
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>could it be because standards of "excellence" can only be maintained if
>the world of poetry is kept closed.
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Steve,
Am I missing something (I've been away so maybe I miss the
thread) but your first sentence seems
out of kilter with the next and then it goes off into not so much sour
grapes but prickly pears and misplaced avocados. As there is nothing
stopping anyone putting their poetry on the list is they want to how can
this be maintaining anything let alone 'excellence' or keeping anything
closed? Don't get it.
The main reason I can give for not putting poetry on the
mailbase is that I don't like the format. To be more exact the format
CANNOT reproduce many of my (and others) poets poems because we explore the
whole gamut of typographical possibilities, word placement, page format etc.
and that's not to mention the whole yummy tactile world of book production
with its decisions of colour, paper qualities, size.shape etc. Taking
poetry into three dimensional space is an integral part of a poem which is
why self-publishing is such and exciting thing to do. It allows you to
'make it so' (is that doesn't sound to Startrekky)and recognises the
importance of where words live and how living in damp squalid editions can
affect them.
So I can't see where your 'elitist' maladjusted fruit frenzy is
coming from. Peel me a grape.
Geraldine
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