[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

[Suzanne Burns]

LOL interesting-- I do that quite frequently, not just with my poems but the
poems of others.  Right now I am reading a lot of Dickinson, and I have
cutouts of her poems tacked up next to the bathroom mirror so that I can
read them while brushing my teeth.  Also have them tacked up over the light
switches-- when I turn on the lights I stop to read for a bit.

Back when I actually had my space to myself, I did that all the time with
drafts of my poems.  There are too many people stampeding through my house
nowadays for that to work out well.

Suzanne, longing to be a hermit with lots of time on her hands



On 11/2/07, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
> This reminds me of what I read years ago of how Alejandra Pizarnik wrote.
> She practically kept her poems on single papers glue to the walls as if
> they
> were paintings and once in a while read them over again and added or took
> away, just like a painter.
>
> From: "Suzanne Burns" <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>
> poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>
>
> > 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/
> >> ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12364573@N08/
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