Kasper Of course you are right but perhaps some writers ego's are big enough
to recognise a good poem not need the acclaim of the masses etc :-)(but so
saying VB always reads mine and he is a harsh critic
P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of kasper salonen
Sent: 10 October 2007 17:30
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Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for Lurking List Members )
it might as well not be, is what I'm saying
KS
On 10/10/2007, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes it is a poem
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of kasper salonen
> Sent: 10 October 2007 16:28
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for Lurking List Members )
>
> a poem isn't a poem if the author is the only reader. Schrödinger & his
> cat..
>
> KS
>
> On 10/10/2007, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Sure, Jon, but this isn't really news, is it? And even if that is the
main
> > or only reason to publish poems -- to get them on your vita -- such is
the
> > way of the world. Are you suggesting that poetry is too pure for such
> social
> > contexts? That appearing in a journal corrupts something previously
> > undefiled? And how is the reductive focus of getting another line on
your
> > vita tied up with the epistemological issue of "realness"? Is an
> unpublished
> > poem on your hard drive even a poem at all?
> >
> > jd
> >
> > On 10/10/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > The main reason to publish poetry is as a credential to prove that
> > > you're a "real" poet. This is quite literally the case: there's a
> > > clear hierarchy of prestige among journals and book publishers, with
> > > the level of prestige correlating exactly to the amount of "realness"
> > > which publication in them confers on the poet published in them.
> > >
> > > To put it another way, more practically, and more bluntly, the reason
> > > to publish poetry with a journal or book publisher is so you can add
> > > the name of that journal or publisher to your resume.
> > >
> > > (I seem now to hear from all over the world scattered cries of
> > > "EEEK!!! WHAT HE SAID!!!!!...")
> > >
> > > --
> > > ===================================
> > >
> > > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
> > >
> > > ===================================
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
> >
>
>
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