[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

Fri Nov 2 14:26:50 EST 2007

When I taught, I used to post a "Poem of the Week" on my office door, for students to ponder while they were waiting to see me.? They came to expect it and, when I forgot to put up a new one, they would complain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Suzanne Burns <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>
Bcc: millb at aol.com
Sent: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:06 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

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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