Jon:
At a lot of schools Poetry Mag publication would be a definite demerit for
a job applicant, as it is in cover letters accompanying manuscripts
submitted for publication to a lot of presses. You may be confusing
"richest" with "most prestigious." There really is no "most prestigious"
journal in the US. Is there one in the UK or Australia?
Mark
At 12:43 PM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
>This is rather fine. The guesses closely emulate randomness. What's really
>significant to my mind is that many in this group of experienced and
>accomplished poets are quite ready to consider whether certain of these quotes
>from some of today's most respected poets are in fact parodies. I really
>should dash off a bunch of this junk and send it to the "p-word" journal. My
>reputation would be made.
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>Incidentally I think the responses to the phrase "most prestigious journal"
>have diverged into a discussion of which journal is best. But that's a matter
>of opinion, whereas the prestigiousness of an American literary or scholarly
>journal is a matter of socially determined fact. Which journal name on your
>publications list would most increase your chances of getting a teaching job
>in a good English department? I suppose there can be some controversy about
>that, but surely the list of contenders is very short.
>
>People may expect a solution to the mystery of which quotes are genuine to be
>forthcoming, but what fun would that be? Besides, I'd rather leave my puzzle
>in the archive without solution, to maximize the beguilement of any future
>literary net surfers who have nothing better to do with their time than read
>old pect messages. However, those who want to track down the answers for
>themselves are referred to
>
> http://www.poetrymagazine.org/issue_archives.html
>
>which will lead to other pages where all will be revealed, including exactly
>how careless my quoting has been.
>
>Incidentally, due to the blurriness of my monitor font I read the whole
>conversation about Lawrence Upton's work thinking that he was saying that his
>poetry included significant elements of porno. It was only just now that I
>realized the term in question is pomo, for post-modernism. I suppose I should
>now go back and reread it all, but I don't think I'd find it as interesting
>this time.
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