From what I know, this has been online for some time now:
http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/
On 5/29/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> interesting news. it seems almost fitting that after such a long
> period of ingestion & dissertation on the WL, it's as though some
> process has been completed & now it'll be, hopefully, disenchanted a
> bit.
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> KS
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> On 29/05/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > In this day of Memorial (in the USA), a curious note.
> > T.S. Eliot's, The Wasteland, I was told last night, is no longer
> covered by
> > copyright. Anyone - a big or small press or Online publication - can
> > reprint it with new 'non-authorized' introductions or prefaces.
> >
> > I gather Eliot's executors were very tight about giving permissions, and
> > getting top pound or dollar or whatever the currency.
> >
> > It will be curious to see how this one plays out in a now momentarily
> > 'horizontal' publishing market place - or the ways in which a particular
> > publisher might vault the work back into the most sought after edition -
> > with 'privileged' but different new introductions by previously
> > unacceptable x, y or z critics.
> >
> > And how new publications of "The Wasteland" play against the Eliot that
> > remains under copyright.
> >
> > As someone who remembers too well when The Wasteland was the heavily
> > protected crown-jewel in many an English Department, it's curious to
> see
> > the jewel thrown back to 'the commons'. And what that might portend.
> >
> > Probably, for sure, a whole bunch of people in the textbook, etc.
> publishing
> > industry who are grateful not to have to write and pay the Eliot Estate
> for
> > permission to reprint the work.
> >
> > Stephen Vincent
> >
> > Walking Theory is my new book from Junction Press (84 pages, $12)
> > For convenient ordering information, go to:
> > www.junctionpress.com
> > For a signed copy, email <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >
> > ... these are the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to write his
> > entire life. They definitely pass the ³take the top of your head off²
> test.
> > I went cover to cover without even sitting up. Ron
> Silliman, Sillimanıs
> > Blog, http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ Go down to May 15, 2007
> >
> > At long last is Walking Theory, Stephen Vincentıs observant,
> large-hearted
> > poems bundled into book form, engaging architecture, people on the move,
> the
> > seasons and other transience, the talk that binds the day: Goodbye,
> > rhetoric, the desperate,/what can the poem do, walking, step-by-step:/
> > witness, suffer, hope. Urbane and companionable, rare virtues flaunted
> here,
> > curbside delight. Bill Berkson
> >
> > Stephen Vincent's work here preserves and enhances the ancient
> association
> > of the foot as measure of the poetic line. In Walking Theory measure
> becomes
> > metaphor: ³...foot ever to the ground, image by image, /thought by
> thought,
> > word by word...² This is the measure of the continuity of a poetıs life
> as
> > he moves through the days, from the grief-stricken rhythms of the
> opening
> > section of elegies to the more expansive tours of the San Francisco
> > neighborhoods where he lives and works. Vincent celebrates the beauty
> of
> > these familiar landscapes, as well as strange, unexpected and sometimes
> > mundane details. In a wonderful pun that arises in the midst of the
> naming
> > of spring flowers, ³the dotted eye² suggests the I of linguistic
> convention
> > as the seeing, moving bodyıs eye transformed by language. Finally, in
> this
> > serious play of words, the poets asks: ³what can the poem do, walking,
> > step-by step:² and credo-like responds: ³witness, suffer,
> hope.² Beverly
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