Hmmmm. Only the start of a response to a response to a response, and onward. To ask this: How many writers have UH style? Or singular content? I don't. How many of us have ancestors we will not acknowledge? Bastards, too many of us. Contemporaries? Best ignored. I can't go near a contemporary without trying to write like him or her or whatever. Mockingbird/cuckoo syndrome again.
Libraries. Not in my neighborhood. The only talent in Monmouth County is buying real estate.
We'll leave it there.
ken
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From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> Junction doesn't court bookstore sales, but they happen, usually through
> special orders or from jobbers, which means I have no idea where the books
> are, tho a lot of libraries have them. No url yet--I'm working on it. But
> anyone who wanted to submit would be free to ask. Beyond which, the
> unconventional church lady could have been tipped off if she'd bothered to
> google the names of my authors. And there have been plenty of reviews.
>
> As to "conventional," I've been down that road too many times. This much
> and no further--there is a divide in English-language poetry with fuzzy
> boundaries, and there's no uncontested terminology for describing it.
> Nonetheless, those on the unconventional, or non-mainstream, or avant
> garde, what-have-you side know what parties they're not invited to and that
> the others usually don't know that there's a divide or that anyone's on the
> other side. They tend not to acknowledge the difference.
>
> A way to think about it might be to consider who one includes in one's
> contemporary cohort and who one considers one's ancestors.
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 01:32 PM 1/11/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> >Mark Weiss wrote:
> >
> >>My hopes are still more modest--that people who are going to submit books
> >>to Junction Press make themselves aware of what I publish. Don't even buy
> >>a book, go to the library, save us all a lot of time and postage.
> >>
> >>In one of the reference books I stated that Junction publishes
> >>unconventional verse, and used Rochelle Owens as an example. Which led to
> >>a submission accompanied by a cover letter beginning "I believe in an
> >>unconventional form of christianity."
> >>
> >>Mark
> >
> >Mark, does Junction have a URL? Where in my local area do you
> >distribute? Will Britt Horner carry any of your books? Actually, the
> >names of indie bookstores (if there are any left) in Jersey would be a
> >great help since I am sure you do not number Borders and B&N among your
> >outlets.
> >
> >For another matter, what is Conventional? I am hearing Alfred Drake in
> >Kismet singing "Rhymes Have I."
> >
> >Ken
> >
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> >
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