That may be so, but the difference between literary fiction genres and "types of poetry" seen hierarchically (as you see them) is that the former is not contentious. Besides, your lumping avantgarde and mainstream poetry books together like you have said hasn’t affected sales, so what’s the problem? Does it annoy you that Tempest et all (however bad a poet she is) sells more than the poets you publish?
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> I never said anything about literary fiction genres. I was talking about poetry in its essence as an art — not as how it is classified by academics and booksellers.
I know you didn’t: I was trying (obviously, I thought?) to set up an equivalency between poetry and fiction in response to your response re the classification issue. I respectfully suggest this one is going nowhere and that we now shelve (sic) the interchange as pointless, before we bore everyone to death.
Tony
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