kasper salonen wrote:
> I'm not unaware of the very tangible monetary aspect of the poetry
> *industry*, and of our parts in it as poets. I just suppose, being nigh-on
> apolitical, that the only way I think I can affect what's in books is to
> write a book. isn't that really the only way we can "fight", as you phrase
> it -- to take part, to create, to make? at least that's the most powerful
> way I can conceive of. so if there has to be a war, I'd rather shoot flowers
> out of my rifle and press them between the pages of a chapbook, or a
> magazine, or the pixels of an online journal. I told a friend of mine today,
> mostly as a joke, to "work smart, not hard", and I think that can be applied
> to taking a stand against "bad" poetry. to do what's right, and to do what's
> write (excuse the dumb pun).
>
> KS
>
What's the point in writing a book if no one will publish it? Or put it
on a book shelf in a bookstore and or a library? Or write a review of
it, and discuss it in a college class? I hate pr, myself, but what else
can one without connections do to get noticed?
--Bob
> On 21 May 2010 03:39, Bob Grumman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> My quick reply, Kasper, without, I fear, reading much
>> of your post, is the ask how you would tackle
>> the problem of who gets paid for poetry, who
>> does not (which is what it reduces to). If you don't care
>> what's in bookstores, etc., sure, be passive. If you
>> do care, and I have to care because I need affirmation
>> (and at least money enough to pay for the electricity my
>> computer uses--and would love to have it for the printer
>> and computer I can't afford that would allow me to
>> do much more as a visual poet than I now can do), then
>> you have to (close you eyes, twinkies) fight for your kind of poetry.
>>
>> Subjectively against others pushing their stuff subjectively.
>>
>> --Bob
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