[New-Poetry] Blurbiest

[almaginnes at aol.com]

Last time I had a book about to come out, I suggested that we do away with hte blurbs. I don't have that many high profile poet friends anyway, and I'd pretty much used up the ones I do have. And blurbs are mostly filler. The publisher didn't agree. as it turned out, only one of the three who agreed to do it got the blurb in on time, so hte book came out with one blurb under a bad photo of me.
 
 
 
 
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I *always* judge a book by it's cover. I particularly dislike these 
sorts of quotes on the front cover: 
 
"Brilliant!!!" The Hastings Evening Herald Examiner 
 
R 
 
On 9/1/06, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote: 
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> 
> I've published a few books, and every time I've suggested to 
> the poet that we dispense with blurbs, I get rebuffed. I've never 
> bought a book based on either what was written or who has 
> written on the back cover. Of course it's a phenomenom of 
> more recent times that every inch of a book cover must be filled in 
> with art / design elements / text. Give us our glut. 
> Finnegan 
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