Janet,
Thanks for your brief mention of one's persona presented as
introductory---while you yourself feel it may belong to someone else. Wow.
And, of course, here's me wishing your 40-page MS a happy and productive
landing! Further happily, petcLand will have saved for your biographers all
these emailings by and to you. heh heh heh
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Email for Posterity
> Alison asks:
>> Anyone here save their emails for those future eager biographers? Not
>> sure
>> that I'd like anyone looking at mine -
>
> Not my own emails, except the ones containing poems.
>
> I occasionally save emails from other people.
> I thought letters should be saved by their recipients,
> not their senders.
>
> Much crap is written about famous and not-so-famous people.
> A persona is created that has only a little to do with the
> actual person - the quotidian self, as we called it a while back.
>
> Even now I am introduced at readings as a persona I don't recognise.
> Perhaps this persona is my poet self as seen by others.
>
> Janet
>
> PS My MS is in the mail! At last! I sent a 40-page manuscript to the
> New Poets Publishing Program of Five Islands Press / Melbourne Uni.
> They publish six little books each year. Wish me luck!
>
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
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