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Peter Straub reminiscing about poets of the 1970's, including a couple of "now-forgotten [oddities]":
Thomas Tessier and I had been friends since meeting one another at a 1970 poetry reading in the cellar of a Dublin pub called Sinnot’s, and our literary conversations had taken an unusual course. In 1970 and ’71, we talked about Geoffrey Hill (a modernist English poet), Derek Mahon (a not very modernist but anyhow wonderful Irish poet who was a friend of Thom’s), Wallace Stevens, John Berryman, John Ashbery and Yeats. In 1972, we were on to Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Mark Strand, Bill Knott (who called himself St. Geraud, “virgin and suicide,” and wrote brief poems seemingly from the point of view of someone recently deceased), Greg Kuzma (another now-forgotten oddity whose poems we found hilariously inept), Thomas Mann, Henry James, Federico García Lorca, Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, along with all of our earlier enthusiasms.
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Here's the link:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/various-encounters-with-karl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=various-encounters-with-karl
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And Peter Straub is right of course. He's simply stating a well-established fact—
I am a "now-forgotten oddity" (and Kuzma is "another" one)—
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It's simply a fact:
That no legitimate publisher will publish my books.
That I have to self-publish my books which no one buys when I do publish them.
That no magazine will accept my poems—don't take my word for that, go look through the twentyfive pages posted here:
http://knottpoetry.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=20
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Etc., etc., etc.
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Peter Straub reminiscing about poets of the 1970's, including a couple of "now-forgotten [oddities]":
Thomas Tessier and I had been friends since meeting one another at a 1970 poetry reading in the cellar of a Dublin pub called Sinnot’s, and our literary conversations had taken an unusual course. In 1970 and ’71, we talked about Geoffrey Hill (a modernist English poet), Derek Mahon (a not very modernist but anyhow wonderful Irish poet who was a friend of Thom’s), Wallace Stevens, John Berryman, John Ashbery and Yeats. In 1972, we were on to Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Mark Strand, Bill Knott (who called himself St. Geraud, “virgin and suicide,” and wrote brief poems seemingly from the point of view of someone recently deceased), Greg Kuzma (another now-forgotten oddity whose poems we found hilariously inept), Thomas Mann, Henry James, Federico García Lorca, Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, along with all of our earlier enthusiasms.
/
Here's the link:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/various-encounters-with-karl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=various-encounters-with-karl
/
And Peter Straub is right of course. He's simply stating a well-established fact—
I am a "now-forgotten oddity" (and Kuzma is "another" one)—
/
It's simply a fact:
That no legitimate publisher will publish my books.
That I have to self-publish my books which no one buys when I do publish them.
That no magazine will accept my poems—don't take my word for that, go look through the twentyfive pages posted here:
http://knottpoetry.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=20
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Etc., etc., etc.
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