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I was talking about books that meet usual bookstore criteria for quality. Yup, I think it's usually a bad thing. Publication rather than maturity of craft become the goals, superstardom at twenty in their imaginations, at any rate. So it becomes a matter of ambition. But I'm an old fart. Mark -----Original Message----- >From: mIEKAL aND <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Nov 4, 2011 12:06 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Reading fees > >You say that like it's a bad thing. > >Cheap, easy to do it yourself printing started in the late 70s / early >80s with copiers, not with POD. Or I spose some would argue with >mimeo, tho I could never get the damned mimeo machine to do what I >wanted. > >~mIEKAL > > > >On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >It's not unusual to meet poets in their twenties, famous among their >friends, with four or five books or chapbooks out.