[New-Poetry] Re: Recommending Poetry Presses?

[David Baratier]

jfq at myuw.net wrote:     It's what one does with the book and about the book, and the quality of the work in the book that makes it worthwhile or not. Not who publishes it.
   

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  I disagree, I do not think an author, a "true poet," should find it necessary to focus on how to sell themselves. An author should not have to be concerned about what they do "with the book and about the book" after it appears. Perchik is a good example of a person who has no interest in reading, conducting workshops or anything else of that sort to promote his collections. His interest is in writing poems. 
   
  My interest was in finding an audience for him after 50+ years of not having a substantial volume of record. To be able to talk with individuals throughout the US and strike up correspondences with people I've never met in Australia, New Zealand, England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and so on and discuss notions of "punctive and typographical metonymy" found within the book was a joy. So was a review from a publishing hero of mine, Tony Frazier, in Shearsman. Or another in the London Times. Or the Library Journal. I spent a few years putting that collection together and if someone wants an editor who actually thinks about, edits, and questions the work, rather than just wanting it published by "somebody,"  we are one of those places. An active editor is important, who publishes it does matter.
   


Be well

David Baratier, Editor

Pavement Saw Press
321 Empire Street
Montpelier OH 43543
http://pavementsaw.org

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