Vasili - hi,
And that's BEFORE the GST (Goods & Services Tax)( Like
VAT )...coming up mid-year ...add another 10%.
I didn't vote for them !
Pam
--- "Stavropoulos, Basil" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> You people should come to Australia. Some examples
> from my recent
> purchases:
>
> Vasco Popa Collected Poems (hardback) - $75
> Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
> (paperback) - $89
> Charles Olson Selected by Robert Creeley (paperback)
> - $35
> Mandelstam Selected (a very thin Penguin) - $18
> Gatsos' Amorgos translated by Sally Purcell (a very
> small Anvil paperback) -
> $36
>
> All books are expensive here.
>
> Vasili
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kennedy [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: the price of materialism
>
> well, you know, i generally agree with the money
> vs. value equation
> that
> alaric makes but i also think there's a wider issue
> here: too many
> books
> these days are just too chuffing expensive. it's a
> bit like when you
> browse
> in antique shops - every single item is priced
> about 20 quid more
> than you
> want to pay. i'll pay the price for something i
> want only if i think
> the
> materials/work involved merit it. and that's a
> decision everyone
> makes
> according to their own view.
> cheers
> david
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alaric Sumner <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 29 February 2000 17:04
> Subject: Re: the price of materialism
>
>
> >><<Personally I do not judge an art work by the
> price it costs.>>
> >>
> >>But surely the price is part of the materiality
> of the text?
> >
> >It is part of the Ownership of its materiality.
> >
> >I usually read in libraries. In UK many are still
> (just) free or in
> >University Libraries where multiple readership
> means that the price
> the
> >university pays per reader can be reduced
> considerably.
> >
> >(Well, actually, I thought "The History of The/My
> World" was worth
> buying
> >even at 60 dollars when I was last in US. And I
> have relished its
> >handprinted cover and the full colour throughout
> ever since. Cheap
> at half
> >the price. But then I VALUE poetry much higher
> than MONEY. I would
> have
> >like to have bought one of the original
> handprinted copies, but
> also find
> >it interesting to have a computer revision of the
> original. Useful
> in my
> >teaching.)
> >
> >Joseph, have you seen a copy? Or is this just
> shock that anyone
> would spend
> >60 dollars on a poetry book?
> >
> >How much would you spend on a book?
> >
> >I was very amused (sick) when I read in
> Bernstein's My Way the bit
> about
> >printing poetry on a sheet of paper making that
> sheet of paper LOSE
> VALUE
> >(Ric Caddell reminded me of the source of this on
> Britpo recently).
> >
> >60 dollars is the price of a good meal for 3?
> >
> >Which is more sustaining?
> >
> >Is it a virtue for poetry to be cheaply produced?
> >
> >
>
>
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