Failure, Rejection, Misery
Rejections this week from Carnegie Mellon UP and Wisconsin UP.
FORM rejections.
R. Wallace scribbled "Sorry" on mine, but I'm sure he did that for every one.
I suck I suck I suck I suck.
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That felt good.
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Maybe Lucky Error needs revision again. Who wants to read it? I'm gonna pull an Eduardo Corral here and offer to send it to anyone who wants to scribble on it, suggest cuts, revisions, etc.
So sign up now. Don't be late. I'll include photographs or recipes with each copy sent out.
Backchannel please!
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9 comments:
I'll swap ya... my overplayed, "Try again next year" ms fer yers...
You want to read Myth of the Simple Machines?
Eh, what the hey... I'll settle down to read Lucky Error even iffen ya don't... I'd welcome the chance!
xoL
send it - 4601 SW 94 Ct, Miami,Fl 33165
p/s that is my address above.
didi
I'd love to read it--but I'll have to send you my address over email (not a fan of posting it publicly).
Since when did getting published by either of these presses (or not) become a sign of poetic quality? I can't name a single poet either has published. I have nothing against theses presses, but it seems a little silly to stake one's self-image on the opinions of people who probably know very little about poetry. If they had accepted you, would that mean that you would see yourself as great ? That would be a natural human response, but as fallacious as your dejection at not being accepted. It's not like a mediocre press wants to publish better manuscripts: they probably prefer being mediocre.
Tony,
I don't know about Carnegie-Mellon, but did you really think your poetry would find a home with Ronald Wallace??
That's pretty funny.
Chin up, Poeta!
Kent
Sorry!
-eds.
Don't send that sucky ass crap to me. If someone says you are sorry, then it must suck big time. It is a sign, you should give up poetry, Sucky McSuck! Or you can write poems about sucking. Even better, be like Karate Kid and use the "sorry" as inspiration to prove Rasheed Wallace wrong and become the best poet in America or even the world. Even though you suck, I'll still be your friend.
As of May 4th, 2005, I have 198 rejections, give or take a few that could be due to tracking error, and I still manage to keep my confidence level.
Form rejections DO suck. About 160 of those above-mentioned rejections were form rejections. There's the 'thank you', the 'however', the 'because we receive so many', and the 'good luck'. They're all pretty much the same.
Keep your head up and pen down. Just make sure you're writing new poems while waiting on the older ones and you'll always have something happening with publications.
I know this comment is about 5 months late, but I thought I'd comment anyway.
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