[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

[jforjames at aol.com]

Jim,
As Tad's post said, "And a lot of it was good." It's not a question of her merits as much as what are the motives...
1) If I publish 100,000 poems before I die, certainly I'll be certified canonical.?(for the future)
2) I like to see my work in print everywhere. It feeds me, makes me feel important. It's the way
I self-actualize.?(for the now)
3) It's my obsession. (can't stop myself)
Finnegan

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
Bcc: jforjames at aol.com
Sent: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 7:53 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome



On 11/1/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> Anny,
>  100 books, and published in 10,000 litmags. It was kinda laughable to
> browse thru Poet's Market or
>  Directory of Poetry Publishers (Dustbooks) and see so many litmags boasting
> 'Lyn Lifshin' as someone
>  they'd published. It would have been more interesting if one of them
> stated: "We resisted publishing
>  Lyn Lifshin."

My previous experience with Lyn Lifshin was pretty much like yours,
James, when I edited Porch (print):  The monthly assault of Lyn
Lifshin poems, all of them rejected.

However, I did publish her in The Salt River Review.  We don't boast
about it but the poems are in the archives:
http://www.poetserv.org/SRR27/srr27_contents.html
She just happened to send a batch in which I found a couple of solid
poems, IMHO.

-- Jim
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