Comments on: I suppose this means I’m a “self-published” poet http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: paisley http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/comment-page-1/#comment-342 paisley Fri, 02 May 2008 20:47:08 +0000 http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/#comment-342 well i think the whole thing is bullshit... poetry is art,, and your blog is your gallery... agree to privatize you blog upon acceptance if and when you get a signed contract and not before... stand your ground.. this is a new world.. publishers have no more idea where all of this will lead than we do... and rules especially within the boundaries of true art and talent are made to be broken.....and for chrissake whatever you do... don't freak out!!! well i think the whole thing is bullshit… poetry is art,, and your blog is your gallery… agree to privatize you blog upon acceptance if and when you get a signed contract and not before… stand your ground.. this is a new world.. publishers have no more idea where all of this will lead than we do… and rules especially within the boundaries of true art and talent are made to be broken…..and for chrissake whatever you do… don’t freak out!!!

]]> By: Eliz http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Eliz Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:44:45 +0000 http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/#comment-339 You should read Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". If you haven't already that is. It talks about the 'aura' of an object. It goes along with what you're saying here, when does a work of art hold 'authority' and what can take that away. Making something public, according to Benjamin "shrivel[s] the aura". And by the way, you can be so damn good, but they will still tell you 'prove it'...becuase they always have to be right :) You should read Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. If you haven’t already that is. It talks about the ‘aura’ of an object. It goes along with what you’re saying here, when does a work of art hold ‘authority’ and what can take that away. Making something public, according to Benjamin “shrivel[s] the aura”. And by the way, you can be so damn good, but they will still tell you ‘prove it’…becuase they always have to be right :)

]]> By: polkadotwitch http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/comment-page-1/#comment-341 polkadotwitch Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:30:47 +0000 http://fallenverses.org/2008/01/06/i-suppose-this-means-im-a-self-published-poet/#comment-341 hi! you have just entered the blogging poet twilight zone. seems each blogging poet goes through this freak out. ok -- yours wasn't so much a freak out as a logical discussion. mine was a freakout which involved screaming and deleting deleting deleting. but that was about a year ago and although that blog doesn't exist any more, i have a new one and i've come to peace with it by keeping my poetry drafts private/password protected. therefore, they're not accessible/published on the web any more than my private emails are. i only publish free writes or poems that i don't intend on pursuing. that's how i've made myself feel comfortable while addressing the concerns (unreasonable though they may be) of journals. you'll find your comfort zone, too. just don't leave us entirely! <em>Freaking out isn't so much my style. :) But I know it works for some people. I've thought about the password thing, and I don't think it's a solution that'll work for me. At the moment I'm leaning toward just posting, posting, posting and damn the consequences! And just being such an awesome poet and critic that the lack of publication won't be an issue. Or so I can hope. -tom</em> hi! you have just entered the blogging poet twilight zone. seems each blogging poet goes through this freak out. ok — yours wasn’t so much a freak out as a logical discussion. mine was a freakout which involved screaming and deleting deleting deleting. but that was about a year ago and although that blog doesn’t exist any more, i have a new one and i’ve come to peace with it by keeping my poetry drafts private/password protected. therefore, they’re not accessible/published on the web any more than my private emails are. i only publish free writes or poems that i don’t intend on pursuing.

that’s how i’ve made myself feel comfortable while addressing the concerns (unreasonable though they may be) of journals. you’ll find your comfort zone, too. just don’t leave us entirely!

Freaking out isn’t so much my style. :) But I know it works for some people. I’ve thought about the password thing, and I don’t think it’s a solution that’ll work for me. At the moment I’m leaning toward just posting, posting, posting and damn the consequences! And just being such an awesome poet and critic that the lack of publication won’t be an issue. Or so I can hope. -tom

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