Oh boy that's a tough one. I don't have to understand a book, but I
do have to trust it--to have a sense that there's something to trust.
Sincerity? integrity? The sense that within the poem the author is on
a voyage that he doesn't know the end of, that something's being
learned that couldn't be learned otherwise. And that there's a way
for me to hitch a ride.
I'm also as an editor often a standin for that inner audience--I work
with my writers. Some more, some less, but I don't think I've
published a single book that hasn't been somewhat changed in dialogue.
Mark
At 08:19 PM 6/7/2007, you wrote:
>>-I just assume that if it works for me (no easy task) it will
>>communicate.
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>Yeah, as a writer, that's the way I go too, Mark. But as a publisher,
>how to you evaluate work? Same?
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>Androo
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>On 08/06/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>Sounds about right, tho I never know what will please that second
>>bunch--I just assume that if it works for me (no easy task) it will
>>communicate.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>At 07:59 PM 6/7/2007, you wrote:
>> >Mark writes: "the audience I write for is internal--the moment to moment
>> >enforcer who says "no, that's the easy way, you don't mean precisely that"
>> >or "common wisdom that you don't really believe," or "it sounds wrong,"
>> >etc."
>> >
>> >Yes, that is absolutely true to my practice as well. But, at least for me,
>> >that inner voice is aware of the needs of "an imagined other out there in
>> >the world." So I don't think it is quite so clear cut as you make
>> out. Maybe
>> >what I have been trying to articulate about sincerity is the idea that
>> >bothaudiences have to be served.
>> >
>> >jd
>> >
>> >--
>> >Joseph Duemer
>> >Professor of Humanities
>> >Clarkson University
>> >[sharpsand.net]
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>--
>Andrew
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