Sorry Jill, I didn't see your query about the acronym.
Yes, as Frank says, it's a newsprint periodical, and is bi-monthly, with
photos, specializing in longer works or longer sections because of the
large format newsprint page, paying a dollar a line, with a circulation of
25,000 or so. Though they usually devote over half each issue to publishing
a semi-eclectic array of stuff, they tend to run high profile "established"
writers in each issue, and that often bothers folks who've read their work
and find they are bored with such writers and want to see the scene move
beyond them. But they do publish a lot of up and coming writers as well,
and sometimes some very unusual and sometimes quite exciting and
occasionally very controversial work in addition to all the established
stuff. It used to be that they only had a board of three but in the mid-90s
they chose to widen their aesthetic nets further and now are working with
an editorial and advisory board of now 16 members (Marjorie Perloff et al.)
and have since published some incredibly exciting writers such as Linh
Dinh. It wasn't for instance until the lit match of Araki Yasusada hit the
immense powdercap of the APR readership that the Yasusada episode exploded
in the face of American poetry. It's a mag that's had quite a force in
American poetry. And yes not every issue satisfies everyone in the Black
Mountain lineage such as Frank I suppose.
Gabe
At 08:54 AM 9/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Jill
> >
> >P.S. What's APR?
>
>The American Poetry Review. Last I saw a copy it's a thick, newsprint
>edition that
>on rare occasion actually prints anything that matters (I'm thinking back to
>separate issues that included lengthy articles on Carl Rakosi and Robert
>Creeley).
>Once, sitting in a laundromat, I found a copy so boring I took a pencil and
>started crossing out lines in the (usually) long poems improving them to
>my own
>taste. The cleanup seemed befitting to the setting I was in. I guess I
>reserve the
>right to be rude in private:)
>
>**************************
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> >poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jill Jones
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:20 PM
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> >Subject: Re: please purchase
> >
> >
> >> Then Henry wrote,
> >> >Robert Bly?
> >>
> >>
> >> If I put "Robert Bly" and "Henry Gould" into my anagram machine I get,
> >> "Grubby yodellers of the north."
> >>
> >
> >Thanks Gabe, that made my morning.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Jill
> >
> >P.S. What's APR?
> >
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