[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

[Suzanne Burns]

I'm coming into the middle of this thread, so I hope I am not asking
something that is obvious:

WTF?  Does she simultaneous submit like a mad demon or is she one of
those logorhheaic types who writes down EVERYTHING that pops into her
head and never revises?

Inquiring minds want to know.

For myself, making that leap to sending anything out is a big deal-- I
find it hard to stay organized and motivated.  I know I can do it-  I
edit and produce much more complicated things professionally-- but
when I need to do something like this for myself, pfffffffttt.....
instant blonde.

My friend Karen Volkman had a real system back when we were studying
together-- she kept twenty poems "in the air" at all times.  With good
results.  But those were good, finished, ready to be published poems
of course.  *Sigh* I need a secretary.

Suzanne

On 11/1/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> 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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