You've still avoided MY question, Kent, not who gets the royalties but who
has 'title' to the book. After all, there must be someone.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "KENT JOHNSON" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: Note to David B. [royalties]
Robin Hamilton asked:
>Kent, Who gets the royalties for _Doubled Flowering_?
>(This is a serious question -- having just forked out $4 to
>download it, I want to know where my money is going to go.)
This being a "serious question," Robin, I must seriously ask you in
turn: Is it one you ask with seriousness everytime you purchase a
poet's book? After all, for all you know, some of those poets are
donating their royalties to neo-fascist organizations, or purchasing
Ferraris with them, or wasting them on child pornography and
liquor. Do you make it a point to ask and find out?
Anyway, your question is the same one that was asked not too
long ago on the Imitation Poetics list, so I thought I'd go ahead and
post here my answer to that. See below.
Kent
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>kent, where do the royalties go?...if there are no royalties---and
>here's a question: what IF there were?
All royalties have been earmarked for the "Radio Hiroshima
Project," an annual production that is (or was) internationally
distributed each August. James Sherry has been asked to send all
royalties, however small, directly there. However, it's not clear
whether the program is still operating, so a change in designation
of recipient may have to be made. If and when it is, any of the
small proceeds will go to an Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemorative
project of some kind. But I have no idea about the royalties-- I've
never received any kind of written statement from Roof. But I gather
the book must be doing OK by poetry-sales standards, since it's
been adopted as a text by quite a few college courses, and that
would add up to some sales. But I don't really know.
Kent
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