Welcome, Ken. Lovely post, that. Forgive me if I just stand in the corner &
let the party swirl around me for a bit.
jd
On 1/7/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hey good to see you back Ken. (Another person that uses vi!)
> I hope your stay in hospital has helped you and you can feel better.
> Maybe a holiday in Australia? Everyone who comes here seems to enjoy it.
>
> I thought Snaps were meant to be off-the-cuff things, too.
> But archiving them online is publication of a sort.
>
> I'm inclined to agree with you that some editorial input for
> the authors would make for a better publication.
>
> With the poem you're struggling with, sounds like it's pretty important
> to you to finish it. Maybe you could put your draft on poetryetc
> and invite us to comment. But I think that, particularly for longer
> poems, there is no one right version and sometimes you just have to
> stop messing with it, let it be, and put it out there, and see what
> happens.
>
> Janet
>
> Ken says, among other things
> > Second, my understanding when I joined in 2003 was that the Snaps were
> > unrevised and messy, first-thought-best-thought things that might or
> > mightn't be commented upon, which could and might need to be revised.
> >
> > Am I the only one who cheated? I doubt it. But probably the best
> > writing I've done in years was because of those Snaps. I was affected
> > by everyone else around me (I was Boy George's model for "Karma
> > Chameleon") and changed my "normal" style. Good? For good? For good
> > or for ill or for naught? Only my hairdresser knows for sure.
> ...
> > I would say for this proposed project that an investment of time in
> > working with authors is necessary, especially if this is an affinity
> > group where people support each other's efforts. Or is that like
> > believing Casablanca is on the water? I for one would greatly
> > appreciate tutelage behind the scenes from those who can and have the
> > time to do so, even perfunctorily.
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
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>
> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
> Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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