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I think you raise an interesting point, about modernism, and how it is
rather than was. That depends on both magazines and poets, and I think
driving some wedge between them would just be unfortunate.

Luke

On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 16:09, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > go with the notion that you're understood even at your most cryptic
>
> And how exciting that is!
>
> Luke
>
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 05:32, jesse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Reuben, Is that the royal WE that you're using now?   :-)   No, I'm
>> referring to all sides of the world and I think you're actually speaking
>> for
>> yourself and your own blameless actions. The last time I looked England
>> was
>> a pretty large place and the small press scene was a a large and various
>> one
>> with all kinds of editors and publishers that you can't possibly speak
>> for.
>> My opinion, Reuben?  Pay the tuition, do the time, and start a small
>> press
>> that makes real books and requires your time and your money to run and
>> then
>> get back to us.  You see I'm using a semi-royal US--it's starting to rub
>> off.  :-)  Of course my observations to not extend to about the half the
>> authors I published via Ahadada.
>>
>> Luke:  Actually go with the notion that you're understood even at your
>> most
>> cryptic--that's the safest position to assume when you post here.  Even
>> the
>> logical notation, but you seem to have missed the very thing that makes
>> paraconsistent logics paraconsistent logics.  Thanks, though, for
>> pointing a
>> great new field out.  The principle of explosion is really wonderful.
>> Still
>> thinking about that.  Many thanks!  Jess
>>
>> Date:    Thu, 6 Sep 2018 23:53:00 +0200
>> From:    Reuben Woolley <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: What I've Learned About Small Press Publishing
>>
>> I don't know if you're referring to the situation in the US, Jesse. I can
>> only speak about the situation in the UK. We rely on and are very grateful
>> to the small indie publishers. We know they are not rich and support their
>> endeavours. Once we get something published we plug it on the social
>> media.
>> We certainly support the other poets they publish. In fact. we celebrate
>> whenever someone gets a work accepted for publication. We do much the same
>> for each other when we get a poem accepted by a magazine.
>>
>> Of course there are exceptions, but we generally ignore them.
>>
>> Reuben
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Date:    Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:06:23 +0900
>> From:    jesse <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Bangless Logics
>>
>> Luke, at first I thought WTF when I saw your proof, now see the whole
>> logic
>> of paraconsistent logics.  The bang is gone.  Learn something new
>> everyday!
>> Jess
>>
>>
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>>
>>   1. Poet's dictioanry?
>>   2. Question / thought on Prynne again (2)
>>   3. do you like my equations ?
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > It's just nonsense, paraconsistent logics are means to stop that
>> > happening. Ah well, maybe all true
>> >
>> > Luke
>> >
>> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 01:10, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Incidentally, and I guess no-one here knows much about paraconsistent
>> >> logic, but I'm trying to bug people at my uni into finding a logic in
>> >> which
>> >> my equations work out... ha, hope it's Ok to go on,
>> >> Luke
>> >>
>> >> *POETRY IN THE EXTRA-MORAL SENSE** (theory and practice in the left
>> >> wing**1
>> >>
>> <#m_5744067851157756554_m_2741698183275262788_m_244025173454158601_sdfootnote1sym>*
>> >> *)*
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *THESIS*
>> >>
>> >> *Someone is Olson and Olson thinks and does not think*
>> >>
>> >> *∃x(OLSON(x) ∧ THINKS(x)∧ ¬THINK(X))*
>> >>
>> >> *ANTI-THESIS *
>> >>
>> >> *Someone does not think and does not act*
>> >>
>> >> *∃x(¬THINK(x) ∧ ¬ACT(x))*
>> >>
>> >> *SYNTHESIS*
>> >>
>> >> *it is false that not everyone does not a**ct*
>> >>
>> >> *⊥ ¬∀x(¬**ACT(x))*
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 1
>> >>
>> <#m_5744067851157756554_m_2741698183275262788_m_244025173454158601_sdfootnote1anc>*.
>> >> Surrealism = Hegelian Marxism Pomo = Stalinism *LangPo = Maoism
>> >> Neo-Modernism = Trotksyism Prynne = Trotsky Mina Loy = Lenin Lewis
>> etc. =
>> >> the Bolshevik Party Modernism = the Russian Revolution Symbolism = the
>> >> Commune Rimbaud = Marx The New Sentence = 1968 riots
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 22 August 2018 at 01:06, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Michael Palmer = Steve Jobs
>> >>>
>> >>> haha, I mean yeah.
>> >>>
>> >>> Luke
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 21 August 2018 at 08:45, jbalizsprince <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> To the Birk, oh yes:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> John Ashbery = I'm not telling you
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Best,  Judy
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -------- Original message --------
>> >>>> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>> Date: 8/20/18 23:54 (GMT-08:00)
>> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >>>> Subject: Re: do you like my equations ?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Or:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Larkin = morose knitting, whippily
>> >>>> Michael Palmer = Steve Jobs
>> >>>> John Ashbery = I'm not telling you
>> >>>> Ted Hughes = a hawk's eyes watching you
>> >>>> W.S.Graham = Whisky in the Snow
>> >>>> Christian Morgenstern = Das Fliegender Cleese
>> >>>> Seamus Heaney =Your Party, naturally
>> >>>> Paul Celan = Heidegger's eyes in the hawk
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 18 August 2018 at 11:29, Tim Allen <
>> >>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Yes I like your equations.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On 18 Aug 2018, at 03:37, Luke wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *he Left Wing of the Bolshevik Party??*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *Theory and Practice*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *– Strictly speaking, it is not imagination that causes action; but
>> >>>>> hope and fear, likes and dislikes, appetite, passion, affection, the
>> >>>>> stirrings of selfishness and self-love **(John Henry Newman quoted
>> by
>> >>>>> Georges Sorel)*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *THESIS:*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *Levertov + action = Olson*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *Levertov - intellect = Zukofsky*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *ANTI-THESIS:*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *Olson + intellect = Olson*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *SYNTHESIS in action:*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> *Olson = Zukofsky*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
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>> Date:    Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:55:06 +0100
>> From:    Luke <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Bangless Logics
>>
>> Ha, not sure what you mean... I was confused about paraconsistent logic,
>> but trying to state what I meant in logical notation. Both of those things
>> have little to do what I am normally posting, which are just questions
>> and,
>> occasionally, simple ideas that make sense to me. Sorry if it all comes
>> off
>> as nonsense.
>>
>> Luke
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 03:09, jesse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > Luke, at first I thought WTF when I saw your proof, now see the whole
>> > logic
>> > of paraconsistent logics.  The bang is gone.  Learn something new
>> > everyday!
>> > Jess
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
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>> > Subject: BRITISH-IRISH-POETS Digest - 4 Sep 2018 to 5 Sep 2018
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>> >
>> > Topics of the day:
>> >
>> >   1. Poet's dictioanry?
>> >   2. Question / thought on Prynne again (2)
>> >   3. do you like my equations ?
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > It's just nonsense, paraconsistent logics are means to stop that
>> > > happening. Ah well, maybe all true
>> > >
>> > > Luke
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 01:10, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Incidentally, and I guess no-one here knows much about paraconsistent
>> > >> logic, but I'm trying to bug people at my uni into finding a logic in
>> > >> which
>> > >> my equations work out... ha, hope it's Ok to go on,
>> > >> Luke
>> > >>
>> > >> *POETRY IN THE EXTRA-MORAL SENSE** (theory and practice in the left
>> > >> wing**1
>> > >>
>> >
>> <#m_5744067851157756554_m_2741698183275262788_m_244025173454158601_sdfootnote1sym>*
>> > >> *)*
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> *THESIS*
>> > >>
>> > >> *Someone is Olson and Olson thinks and does not think*
>> > >>
>> > >> *∃x(OLSON(x) ∧ THINKS(x)∧ ¬THINK(X))*
>> > >>
>> > >> *ANTI-THESIS *
>> > >>
>> > >> *Someone does not think and does not act*
>> > >>
>> > >> *∃x(¬THINK(x) ∧ ¬ACT(x))*
>> > >>
>> > >> *SYNTHESIS*
>> > >>
>> > >> *it is false that not everyone does not a**ct*
>> > >>
>> > >> *⊥ ¬∀x(¬**ACT(x))*
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> 1
>> > >>
>> >
>> <#m_5744067851157756554_m_2741698183275262788_m_244025173454158601_sdfootnote1anc>*.
>> > >> Surrealism = Hegelian Marxism Pomo = Stalinism *LangPo = Maoism
>> > >> Neo-Modernism = Trotksyism Prynne = Trotsky Mina Loy = Lenin Lewis
>> etc.
>> > =
>> > >> the Bolshevik Party Modernism = the Russian Revolution Symbolism =
>> the
>> > >> Commune Rimbaud = Marx The New Sentence = 1968 riots
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On 22 August 2018 at 01:06, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> Michael Palmer = Steve Jobs
>> > >>>
>> > >>> haha, I mean yeah.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Luke
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On 21 August 2018 at 08:45, jbalizsprince <[log in to unmask]>
>> > >>> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>>> To the Birk, oh yes:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> John Ashbery = I'm not telling you
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Best,  Judy
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> -------- Original message --------
>> > >>>> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> > >>>> Date: 8/20/18 23:54 (GMT-08:00)
>> > >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> > >>>> Subject: Re: do you like my equations ?
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Or:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Larkin = morose knitting, whippily
>> > >>>> Michael Palmer = Steve Jobs
>> > >>>> John Ashbery = I'm not telling you
>> > >>>> Ted Hughes = a hawk's eyes watching you
>> > >>>> W.S.Graham = Whisky in the Snow
>> > >>>> Christian Morgenstern = Das Fliegender Cleese
>> > >>>> Seamus Heaney =Your Party, naturally
>> > >>>> Paul Celan = Heidegger's eyes in the hawk
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> On 18 August 2018 at 11:29, Tim Allen <
>> > >>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>> Yes I like your equations.
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> On 18 Aug 2018, at 03:37, Luke wrote:
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *he Left Wing of the Bolshevik Party??*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *Theory and Practice*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *– Strictly speaking, it is not imagination that causes action;
>> but
>> > >>>>> hope and fear, likes and dislikes, appetite, passion, affection,
>> the
>> > >>>>> stirrings of selfishness and self-love **(John Henry Newman
>> quoted
>> > >>>>> by
>> > >>>>> Georges Sorel)*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *THESIS:*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *Levertov + action = Olson*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *Levertov - intellect = Zukofsky*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *ANTI-THESIS:*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *Olson + intellect = Olson*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *SYNTHESIS in action:*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> *Olson = Zukofsky*
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>>
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>> Date:    Thu, 6 Sep 2018 15:29:27 +0100
>> From:    Luke <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Bangless Logics
>>
>> So e.g. I was just drawing an analogy between The Waste Land and the
>> internet, their "echo chambers":
>>
>> Eliot's wasteland amounts to just the tonal play of conversation of people
>> without moral authority. an effect achieved via a network of literary
>> allusions about redemption that retain their absence from events in the
>> poem (the typist is not a lovely woman).
>> The internet is a lot of people talking at once and nothing else, no
>> 'poetry' after conceptual poetry, and no authority on what anything means.
>>
>> Those two are analogous if you map "the past" onto 'authority on meaning'
>> and poetry onto redemption.
>>
>> I'm suddenly not sure if I can be understood!
>>
>> Luke
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>> Date:    Fri, 7 Sep 2018 02:41:15 +0900
>> From:    jesse <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: What I've Learned About Small Press Publishing
>>
>> What I've learned about small press publishing: there are more people
>> eager
>> to publish than to read books from their potential publisher. People tend
>> to
>> think your operation is larger than it is, and attempt to act accordingly.
>> Writers tend to consider themselves geniuses and morph into Devas and
>> Dervishes once you've accepted their manuscript, demanding what they
>> consider to be the very best for their immortal works. Geniuses often
>> attempt to treat their publisher as a foolish rich person with time to
>> spare
>> and unlimited financial and emotional resources who have no life outside
>> of
>> whatever services they may render their genius writer. Or they simply
>> consider them robots who need to work faster. The publisher always seems
>> to
>> be guilty of the sin of publishing while the Writer remains the Pure
>> Genius
>> Writer. Therefore, as in any paternity case, it's ok to abandon your book
>> once it's been published and let the publisher with his or her vast
>> resources publish since that's their job, right? Therefore the Writer owes
>> nothing to the publisher who is having a great time selling the WORK OF
>> GENIUS, and therefore owes both the great time and whatever money can be
>> generated from that great time, to the Writer. After publication, the
>> Genius
>> Writer then is free to march on to greater glory. Sadly, this is all a
>> self-serving myth fed to the Writer by creative writing programs and
>> conferences and movies made for TV. Small Press publishing is a labor of
>> love until it isn't. No one ever makes money doing it, or at least I never
>> did. Because of this Publisher As TOOL of My Genius philosophy, I began to
>> stipulate that the author help sell and promote any work of genius that I
>> might publish of theirs via readings and sales to family and friends, and
>> gift sales, and all of the possibilities that open up to Genius writers. I
>> asked that they buy an Ahadada book just to help the press and to see the
>> kinds of writers we publish. And I still stipulate these things. My
>> suggestion is that anyone interested in publishing with a small press be
>> prepared to HELP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to PROMOTE NOT ONLY THEIR WORK BUT
>> THE
>> WORK OF OTHER AUTHORS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS. Does this sound like too
>> onerous a burden?  :-)  Jess
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>> Date:    Thu, 6 Sep 2018 18:46:42 +0100
>> From:    Luke <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: What I've Learned About Small Press Publishing
>>
>> Hey jesse
>>
>> > TOOL of My Genius philosophy
>>
>> All small publishers provide is money, it's poetry that matters ;-)
>>
>> Luke
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 18:41, jesse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > What I've learned about small press publishing: there are more people
>> > eager
>> > to publish than to read books from their potential publisher. People
>> tend
>> > to
>> > think your operation is larger than it is, and attempt to act
>> accordingly.
>> > Writers tend to consider themselves geniuses and morph into Devas and
>> > Dervishes once you've accepted their manuscript, demanding what they
>> > consider to be the very best for their immortal works. Geniuses often
>> > attempt to treat their publisher as a foolish rich person with time to
>> > spare
>> > and unlimited financial and emotional resources who have no life outside
>> > of
>> > whatever services they may render their genius writer. Or they simply
>> > consider them robots who need to work faster. The publisher always seems
>> > to
>> > be guilty of the sin of publishing while the Writer remains the Pure
>> > Genius
>> > Writer. Therefore, as in any paternity case, it's ok to abandon your
>> book
>> > once it's been published and let the publisher with his or her vast
>> > resources publish since that's their job, right? Therefore the Writer
>> owes
>> > nothing to the publisher who is having a great time selling the WORK OF
>> > GENIUS, and therefore owes both the great time and whatever money can be
>> > generated from that great time, to the Writer. After publication, the
>> > Genius
>> > Writer then is free to march on to greater glory. Sadly, this is all a
>> > self-serving myth fed to the Writer by creative writing programs and
>> > conferences and movies made for TV. Small Press publishing is a labor of
>> > love until it isn't. No one ever makes money doing it, or at least I
>> never
>> > did. Because of this Publisher As TOOL of My Genius philosophy, I began
>> to
>> > stipulate that the author help sell and promote any work of genius that
>> I
>> > might publish of theirs via readings and sales to family and friends,
>> and
>> > gift sales, and all of the possibilities that open up to Genius
>> writers. I
>> > asked that they buy an Ahadada book just to help the press and to see
>> the
>> > kinds of writers we publish. And I still stipulate these things. My
>> > suggestion is that anyone interested in publishing with a small press be
>> > prepared to HELP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to PROMOTE NOT ONLY THEIR WORK BUT
>> > THE
>> > WORK OF OTHER AUTHORS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS. Does this sound like too
>> > onerous a burden?  :-)  Jess
>> >
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>> Date:    Thu, 6 Sep 2018 23:53:00 +0200
>> From:    Reuben Woolley <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: What I've Learned About Small Press Publishing
>>
>> I don't know if you're referring to the situation in the US, Jesse. I can
>> only speak about the situation in the UK. We rely on and are very grateful
>> to the small indie publishers. We know they are not rich and support their
>> endeavours. Once we get something published we plug it on the social
>> media.
>> We certainly support the other poets they publish. In fact. we celebrate
>> whenever someone gets a work accepted for publication. We do much the same
>> for each other when we get a poem accepted by a magazine.
>>
>> Of course there are exceptions, but we generally ignore them.
>>
>> Reuben
>>
>> to 6 Sep 2018 (#2018-237)
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