DIY
Ron Silliman's seventies litzine, Tottel's, is now archived on line. (Click on the "facsimile" button. Note esp. the cover of #16.)
Silliman's linguistics professor at SF State had "argued that if I was [sic] a poet, I should have a magazine – it would give me a chance to contact all of the poets whose work I admired, sharpen my own critical thinking about poetry, and even give me the chance to print my own work. "
Besides these three reasons, here are three other reasons all writers, esp. poets, should do-it-yourself:
4) to realize how difficult it is to separate the wheat from the chaff
5) to realize how thankless the task of editing/publishing really is
6) to realize that no matter how noble your intentions, acute your sensibility, boundless your energy, etc., the end product will turn out to be, by the standards of Literature, essentially unacceptable
Silliman's linguistics professor at SF State had "argued that if I was [sic] a poet, I should have a magazine – it would give me a chance to contact all of the poets whose work I admired, sharpen my own critical thinking about poetry, and even give me the chance to print my own work. "
Besides these three reasons, here are three other reasons all writers, esp. poets, should do-it-yourself:
4) to realize how difficult it is to separate the wheat from the chaff
5) to realize how thankless the task of editing/publishing really is
6) to realize that no matter how noble your intentions, acute your sensibility, boundless your energy, etc., the end product will turn out to be, by the standards of Literature, essentially unacceptable
posted by Howard Junker at 7:29 AM
2 Comments:
...but you're not bitter. :)
As that great poet of yesteryear once wrote,
Turn that frown
upside down.
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