[New-Poetry] A public plea to Jonathan Galassi

[jforjames at aol.com]

I admire Bill's poetry. I don't know him personally. But if this is his circumstance:
"?have no family or friends, no home, no job, no position or title, no money, no prospects, no health or future," then
he is what is referred to as 'judgement proof'...that is, no one is going to sue someone from whom
they can get no payback. Therefore, as a jailhouse lawyer, I'd recommend going ahead with the POD publication
of the poems that FSG won't release rights to. First, they'll have to take notice of this infringement. Next, they'll have
to consider the infringement?a threat to?their franchise or a diversion of their income stream. Lastly, they'll have to be moved to sue a poet who, by his own admission, has no means. None of which is?likely.

The question that Bill Knott has to consider is this: Will these poems being in circulation via POD help 
my circumstances in any meaningful way. If FSG can't sell them, can he? 
Finnegan

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 4:44 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] A public plea to Jonathan Galassi


Well of course Bill has many friends he doesn't know about. ?If you consider yourself a friend of Bill Knott, write him at his blog and tell him so (unless we don't have to cause he overhears it here). 



Other than that, I admire his dedication to p.o.d. for getting his crummy little poems out to a readership. ?And of course they aren't crummy little poems.




- Jim




On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:22 AM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:



>From Bill Knott's blog:






A PUBLIC PLEA TO JONATHAN GALASSI, EDITOR/PUBLISHER OF FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX 




A public plea addressed to Jonathan Galassi:

I've begged you in private communications again and again to follow the standard procedure of remaindering my book and granting reversion,

and you've refused.? I now beg you openly, through the only medium I have to reach you,

please relent.??. . . .

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