[New-Poetry] Lifshin Syndrome

Fri Nov 2 16:34:29 EST 2007

What a neat idea.

millb at aol.com wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>>
>     poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto: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 <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>
>     <jforjames at aol.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto:cervantes.james at gmail.com>>
>     >>  Bcc: jforjames at aol.com <mailto: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 <mailto:jforjames at aol.com>
>     <jforjames at aol.com <mailto: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
>     <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.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://www.poetserv.org/jvc/home/index.html>
>     >> ~ http://home.earthlink.net/~jvcervantes/
>     <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ejvcervantes/>
>     >> ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12364573@N08/
>     <http://www.flickr.com/photos/12364573@N08/>
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