[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

[jforjames at aol.com]

'A lot of it is good,' would be one of those 'bad blurbs'?one could envision on her multi-volume collected poems set
(which I don't think will ever appear, unless her heirs publish it). A poet like Lifshin becomes a kind of curiousity
really. What is this need to fill every nook & cranny of small litmag world with your precious poetry? There
is something sad and needy about her career. Years ago when I edited a small journal (and I mean micro
small) we'd get 2-3 submissions from Lifshin a month. We'd get several envelopes stuffed with well-circulated ms.
pages (in the days before word processors, it wasn't easy to keep clean drafts in the mail) before we'd
even gotten around to rejecting?prior batches we had on hand.? 

Finnegan

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There's Lyn Lifshin. No one could be more prolific than she, and a lot of it is good.?
?



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