tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329800043283255166.post8565255382454266267..comments2023-11-05T07:41:04.214-05:00Comments on Strong Verse: Movin on up b/w a ConundrumG. M. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14515043039690357593noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329800043283255166.post-11210941710781881412009-03-08T16:52:00.000-04:002009-03-08T16:52:00.000-04:00I glanced at Silliman's "Alphabet" in the bookstor...I glanced at Silliman's "Alphabet" in the bookstore. I can't fathom what audience is going to read the stuff. <BR/><BR/>I also can't fathom what publisher invested in the book. It's expensive to put out books like that. Never mind that there's no way they're going to recover expenses. The whole publishing industry baffles me. They will publish stuff like that and then whine that there is no money in poetry.<BR/><BR/>Makes me want to hit them up side the head with a waffle iron.<BR/><BR/>Duh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329800043283255166.post-78591902850607153492009-03-07T16:35:00.000-05:002009-03-07T16:35:00.000-05:00//But. . .The books suck. There's one book of pros...//But. . .<BR/><BR/>The books suck. There's one book of prose "poems" and then two books of lineated prose. Nothing to recommend them other than nice covers.//<BR/><BR/>That's the rub isn't it...<BR/><BR/>I don't know if any press will ever consider sending me review copies, but I would only be interested in poems using forms, metrical, rhythmic, rhetorical or otherwise.<BR/><BR/>That way, I might get two, maybe three books a year.<BR/><BR/>You should take a look at my last post on poetry and style. I would think it would be right down your alley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329800043283255166.post-56924409883594238772009-03-05T19:42:00.000-05:002009-03-05T19:42:00.000-05:00Who are the 20 multicultural poets who actually do...Who are the 20 multicultural poets who actually don't mean much to you, but who you should really say have had a profound influence on you or else you will lose your standing; repeat for women; repeat for poets of small languages; repeat for people in your life who you should love immensely but really don't care about much. <BR/><BR/>THEN, you would be Ron Silliman.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.com