[New-Poetry] Recommending Poetry Presses?

[Anny Ballardini]

I think this (I do not like the expression but I cannot find anything better in this moment) nails it:

re.: Skip Fox:
(I remember what it used to be like as a poor man trying to get a little known poet's work in the middle of nowhere. Today is lovely and lively by comparison.)

to which I could add that I feel much richer in terms of poetry, of quantity and quality of poetry and of ideas and it feels "lovely and lively."

  From: Skip Fox 

  Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:32 PM



  I wanted to also bring up the mention of e-books. Many good presses are now "publishing" electronic books of poetry that people can download for free. Although this might seem like a way to find yourself in a blind alley with no attention, I have seen other poets' bookshelves with many printed out e-books. I do this occasionally myself.



  Publishing electronically allows a person interested in a poet to google him or her and read or print out copies of his or her works. I tend to do this more and more and in the process often print out an e-book of the poet so I can read in hard copy. Stapled and shelved, they afford the opportunity to immediately and easily jump into a sizable portion of a poet's work. (I remember what it used to be like as a poor man trying to get a little known poet's work in the middle of nowhere. Today is lovely and lively by comparison.)



  And if you publish, say, a thirty-page block of poems as an e-book, I don't think that precludes you from publishing that piece as a segment of a larger work, especially if that book has over twice as much poetry (either new or published elsewhere). That's just a sense of things; I've not seen it written.



  Another issue concerns p.o.d. books which I believe has been discussed in the past (and which I find delightful both in theory and practice-that is, by good presses).



  Indeed, much under this thread has been discussed, but with the publishing world changing so fast recently, and our experiences in publishing quickly broadening, I find it great that someone new brought up these issues so we can update (and deepen?) our thinking.



  (I love the idea of a cooperative press by the way.)



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