[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

[Gerald Schwartz]

Perhaps her system is the way she works
in themes--sometimes for a decade or so.
When I met her in the '80's, there were the
Madonna poems...

Gerald S.

> 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
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ~ Salt River Review: http://www.poetserv.org
>> ~
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org/catalog.html#temporarymeaning
>> ~ http://www.fieralingue.it/documenti/mr_bondo.pdf
>> ~ http://www.poetserv.org/jvc/home/index.html
>> ~ http://home.earthlink.net/~jvcervantes/
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