https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/ronin-poet-kalkbrenners-foul-feelings/ Where was it one first heard of the truth? Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/ronin-poet-kalkbrenners-foul-feelings/comment-page-1/#comment-907 Anonymous Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:22:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3388#comment-907 i highly enjoyed the process of publishing people on press electric. it's a lot of fun and you don't have to worry about much. we need to do another run of teaching the dead, i think. i liked how those books looked too. they are durable books, i think. they also are nice because you run copies as you need them, instead of putting in a huge investment. i highly enjoyed the process of publishing people on press electric. it’s a lot of fun and you don’t have to worry about much. we need to do another run of teaching the dead, i think. i liked how those books looked too. they are durable books, i think. they also are nice because you run copies as you need them, instead of putting in a huge investment.

]]> https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/ronin-poet-kalkbrenners-foul-feelings/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Pigsnout2 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:11:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3388#comment-906 Self publish... Frost did it, and so did Williams. Flores, Angel Flores published Williams before New Directions, and Williams went to vacation down in Atlantic city as a mildly affluent doctor and was horrified to see the beautiful book Flores had produced remaindered on the boardwalk. The punk aesthetic of "do it yourself and fuck those who sniff" is admired but never embraced. Almost all poetry book are co-operative presses with the poet receiving the first fifty to 100 books for free, and then paying the retail price. I regret not self publishing my own books. I did an openly co-operative press with Iniquity press/vendetta books and sold five thousand copies. I was then published by Texas Univeisity press, a small press, and NYQ. These are national books. They are sold on amazon, etc. So are the books I did with David Roskos, with an intro by Harvey Pekar, and I promise the Dave Roskos books will prove more valuable. The other books get you tenure. I find the whole business of poetry to be high comedy. The first books I did were for a small but knowing audience in New Jersey who wanted to read what they had heard me do at features and open mikes. This to me seemed right. The others were to have and secure a job. Haiku is extremely difficult in English. One must expand or trespass against the form in order to do it well in English. Some of Etheridge Knight's are amazing. . I wish your friend well. From now on. I think I will confine my books to small, self published texts.I worked in a factory for 20 years. I know what mass produced means. Self publish… Frost did it, and so did Williams. Flores, Angel Flores published Williams before New Directions, and Williams went to vacation down in Atlantic city as a mildly affluent doctor and was horrified to see the beautiful book Flores had produced remaindered on the boardwalk. The punk aesthetic of “do it yourself and fuck those who sniff” is admired but never embraced. Almost all poetry book are co-operative presses with the poet receiving the first fifty to 100 books for free, and then paying the retail price. I regret not self publishing my own books. I did an openly co-operative press with Iniquity press/vendetta books and sold five thousand copies. I was then published by Texas Univeisity press, a small press, and NYQ. These are national books. They are sold on amazon, etc. So are the books I did with David Roskos, with an intro by Harvey Pekar, and I promise the Dave Roskos books will prove more valuable. The other books get you tenure. I find the whole business of poetry to be high comedy. The first books I did were for a small but knowing audience in New Jersey who wanted to read what they had heard me do at features and open mikes. This to me seemed right. The others were to have and secure a job. Haiku is extremely difficult in English. One must expand or trespass against the form in order to do it well in English. Some of Etheridge Knight’s are amazing. . I wish your friend well. From now on. I think I will confine my books to small, self published texts.I worked in a factory for 20 years. I know what mass produced means.

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