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 value (String, 32768 characters ) rumble in the poet world  if theyâ€™re poetsâ€¦-jeffery mcnary(Cambridge, MA) On a certain plane, one can wonder, and even ask aloud, what was Alice Quinn, bitch-goddess-poetry-editor of â€œThe New Yorkerâ€ doing as she fumbled through a presentation at Harvardâ€™s Longfellow Hall recently. But midway through the awkwardness of it all, it became painfully obvious, on another plane, the abbess was trying to sell a book that evening, somebodyâ€™s book of previously unreleased works with â€œtorturedâ€ handwriting and typos, with her name on it as editor, titled â€œEdgar Allan Poe & The Juke Box Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragmentsâ€, the work of Elizabeth Bishop. That evening, Ms. Quinn appeared somewhat propped up on the dais both intellectually and creatively by the likes of Pulitzer prizer and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, Jorie Graham, (a position formerly held by the legendary Seamus Heaney); Frank Bidard, co-editor of the Collected Works of Robert Lowell and nominee for the Pulitzer as well as National Book Awards; Pulitzer Prize winner Lloyd Schwartz, a frequent contributor to National Public Radio (NPR); and former Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize nominee Robert Pinsky, (a personal favorite and post-modern icon of the fuck-it-all-cool). Combined, the works of this crew enriches the most sophisticated of collections.It goes without saying, the air at such events is rarified, and this writer was excited to learn Dr. Pinsky was â€œnot playing poker these daysâ€, his rich â€œLife of Davidâ€ was in itâ€™s second printing, the Pinsky collaboration with Tod Machover on the cutting-edge opera Death and the Powers was on schedule to open in New Jersey in autumn of 2008, and that none of the 300 plus gathered in Longfellow had phoned 911 to quickly get Ms. Quinn to Logan Airport or perhaps a local asylum. At this writing, it appears that neither Harvard University nor Harvard Bookstore has approached her for any damages she may have done to the high-tech equipment the czarina of the self-addressed-stamped-envelope nervously, misused, banged and throttled throughout her presentation. Â But with the blaze of controversy following her these days over the crossed and marked up drafts of a deceased writer, the tension comes as no surprise.The gathering was done under the banner, â€œA Celebration of Elizabeth Bishopâ€, a modern poet of the so-called, â€œBoston Schoolâ€, and contemporary of John Berryman, Robert Lowell (with whom she held a lifelong, if not â€œcomplicatedâ€, friendship), and Plath and Sexton and that crew should you chose to stretch it. Ms. Quinn, recently took it upon herself to review, edit, and publish much of Bishopâ€™s work, unpublished by the author and asleep in the archives of Vassar College. Ms. Quinn has been poetry editor of The New Yorker since 1987, and prior to that worked in the publishing house of Alfred A. Knopf. What she has done with her latest venture could be considered daring. It has done to the poet world what Mike Tyson did for boxing by biting Evander Holyfieldâ€™s ear in a heavy-weight bout. Itâ€™s changed things. Itâ€™s rocked them to the degree that it is uncertain whether the giants of the genre gathered in Longfellow were there to â€œcelebrateâ€ Ms.Bishop or douse the sparks around Ms.Quinn. Their readings came from works published while Bishop was alive and put forth the bulk of them. Elizabeth Bishop had lived and written in an interesting and challenging time, an era of Castro, and Martin Luther King, Jr., of Lummumba and Ho Chi Minh, of the Kennedyâ€™s and Pollock and late Coltrane, and Hendrix for that matter. Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s life straddled a dynamic period of radical change on the planet, yet she did not write of shifting social phenomena directly, even while living it. Ms. Bishopâ€™s work, one could say, was somewhat â€œpluralizedâ€ inasmuch as she rolled with emotional undercurrents, deep waves of intense fear and anxiety, desire and loss, while cloaking much of it in nature. In her work â€œRain Towards Morningâ€ Bishop wrote;Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œThe great light cage has broken up in the air,Â freeing , I think, about a million birdsÂ whose wild ascending shadows will not be back,Â and all the wires come falling down.Â No cage, no frightening birds; the rainÂ is brightening now. The face is paleÂ that tried the puzzle of their prisonÂ and solved it with an unexpected kissÂ whose freckled unsuspected hands alit.â€Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s life, from itâ€™s beginning, was somewhat challenged, with periodic glimpses of bliss from time to time later on. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911, Ms. Bishopâ€™s father died before her first birthday. Her mother suffered a series of mental breakdowns and was committed to a mental hospital, and Elizabeth spent a significant part of her youth with grandparents in Canada. After attending Vassar, where she struck up a friendship with the writer Mary McCarthy and founded a socially conscious â€œavant-gardeâ€, student literary magazine, the poet took off for New York City and Key West, Florida, and other points prior to breaking a string of rejections by the New York literati with her â€œThe Mapâ€ and â€œMan Mothâ€, in which she wrote:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you catch himÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Hold up a flashlight to his eye. Itâ€™s all dark pupil,Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â an entire night itself, whose harried horizon tightensÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â as he stares back and closes up the eye . Then from the lidsÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â one tear, his only possession, like a beeâ€™s sting, slips.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â slyly he palms it, and if youâ€™re not paying attentionÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â heâ€™ll swallow it. However, if you watch, heâ€™ll hand it over,Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.â€Ms. Bishop, although not a particularly prolific writer, garnered a Pulitzer and influenced a significant number of contemporary American writers, Â among them Jorie Graham, while crafting only four slim volumes of work and 90 odd pieces. She received two Guggenheims, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and with work put forth in several languages can still, nonetheless, be viewed as a poster child of the poet as troubled spirit. She was Poet Laureate of the United States in 1949. There was the torrid 17 year lesbian affair with Lota de MacedoÂ Soares in Brazil, igniting some of her more powerful works, marked by alleged heavy drinking and ultimate betrayal on her part. This finally came to a crashing end with her return to the U.S. by the mid-sixties and Soaresâ€™ suicide. By then she had written â€œQuestions of Travelâ€, which included a painful segment addressing both a childâ€™s response to a motherâ€™s slide into insanity and her then predicament which Mr. Pinsky read at the â€œcelebrationâ€:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIs it lack of imagination that makes us comeÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â to imagined places, not just stay at home?Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Or could Pascal have been not entirely rightÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â about just sitting quietly in oneâ€™s own room?Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Continent, city, country, society:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The choice is never wide and never free.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And here, or thereâ€¦no. Should we have stayed at home,Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â wherever that may be?â€Itâ€™s a difficult genre in which to delve. Yet Ms. Quinn has swayed her way into controversy, sidestepping her usual review of works for the weekly editions of The New Yorker to morph into something different, some larger phenomena seeking its own bite of post-modernity by editing and annotating these previously unreleased works. Why? That question and controversy now rages in the semi-Jesuitical poet world and poet wannabes, and has, by the way, pissed-off some off many of the accomplished in the realm. Ms. Bishop was known for her meticulous review of her writing. Nothing went to publication until she was absolutely comfortable with it. â€œIs work that a writer chose not to publish during her lifetime fair game after she dies?,â€ queried Shelia Farr in The Seattle Times. â€œâ€¦it would be unfair to put forth work she (Bishop) considered immature, unsuccessful and/or incomplete as an equal part of her oeuvre, even though she didnâ€™t destroy it.â€University of New Hampshire Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic, reviewed Ms. Quinnâ€™s effort in the New York Review of Books and wrote, â€œAs far as her reputation as a poet goes (Bishop), these 106 flawed and at times marvelous poems will only enhance it. This would not be true of most other poets, but Bishop is a special case. Determined as she was that every poem of hers should surprise the reader with something new, she rarely wrote the some kind of poem twice.â€ In fact, Elizabeth Bishop was known for perfecting her poetry, even working one for over a period of years. But Mr. Simic flinches, continuing that publication of the work, â€œmost certainly would have mortified her if she were still alive.â€ Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins also questioned the publication of the works, telling Motoko Rich of The New York Times, â€œI think, in a way, we have her collected poems, and that was Bishop at her best. Maybe that should be enough.â€Given Ms. Quinnâ€™s position on the totem of publishing, there may be hesitation for criticism in some circles. The has hardly proven to be the case for Helen Vendler, now the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, the most caustic critic of the Quinn enterprise. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, and other critical periodicals, â€œShe is like a receiving station picking up on each poem, unscrambling things out of word-waves, making sense of it and making sure of it,â€ Seamus Heaney wrote of the professor.In a recent piece in The New Republic, â€œThe Art of Losingâ€, Ms. Vendler wrote of â€œEdgar Allen Poe & The Juke Boxâ€, â€œThis book should not have been issued with itâ€™s present subtitle of â€œUncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.â€ It should have been called â€œRepudiated Poems.â€ For Elizabeth Bishop had years to publish the poems included here, had she wanted to publish them.â€ They remained unpublished (not â€œuncollected) because, for the most part, they did not meet her fastidious standards (although a few, such as the completed love poem â€œIt is marvelous to wake up togetherâ€, may have been withheld out of prudence).At the invitation of Robert Lowell, Ms. Bishop relocated to Cambridge and taught briefly at Harvard. There she met and settled in with the last â€œlove of her lifeâ€, Alice Methfessel, and crafted her Plath like piercing work of loss, â€œOne Artâ€, prior to dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston in 1979.-Even losing you (the joking voice, a gestureI love) I shanâ€™t have lied. Itâ€™s evidentThe art of losingâ€™s not too hard to masterThough it may look like (write it!) like disasterMs. Quinn referred Ms. Methfessel, Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s executrix as â€œfantastic. She lets everybody into the archive. Because of this, there have been something like 10 books published on Bishop in the last 10 years. Bishop is now assigned reading in French High Schoolsâ€, she recently shared with John Riter in an article for the Boston Globe.The New Yorker is one of only a few remaining â€œgeneralâ€ reading magazines publishing poetry. That which it does, is main stream, nothing cutting edge, nothing controversial. Iâ€™d venture to say approaching minus an agent is not the best use of ones time. Alice Quinnâ€™s name isnâ€™t even mentioned in the Poetâ€™s Guide to Publishing.Itâ€™s difficult to say what will continue to ripple from this episode. The question, â€œIs work an author chooses not to publish during their life time good-to-go for others when they dieâ€?Â What is the standard?Â Itâ€™s particularly vexing given Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s self imposed high vector. Many of the works published by Alice Quinn are visibly marked or crossed out. Ms. Vendler challenges us, â€œQuinnâ€™s uninformative statement the drafts of â€œOne Artâ€ reads, â€˜In a book devoted to unfinished work, it seemed a good idea to provided drafts of a finished poemâ€™. But why is it a â€˜good ideaâ€™ if the drafts are illegible? And did Quinn or her publishers think that they were doing Bishop a service by offering her in unreadable formâ€? Vendler continues, â€œIn the long run, these newly published materials will be relegated to what Robert Lowell called â€œthe back stacks,â€ and this imperfect volume will be forgotten, except by scholars. The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings.â€ It will be interesting indeed to see how emerging as well as establishedwriters secure their legacy. It will be interesting indeed to see if The New Yorker, and Ms. Quinn for that matter, stands for the count, or stays in the corner.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
 
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 safe_value (String, 33459 characters ) rumble in the poet world rumble in the poet world  if theyâ€™re poetsâ€¦ -jeffery mcnary (Cambridge, MA) On a certain plane, one can wonder, and even ask aloud, what was Alice Quinn, bitch-goddess-poetry-editor of â€œThe New Yorkerâ€ doing as she fumbled through a presentation at Harvardâ€™s Longfellow Hall recently. But midway through the awkwardness of it all, it became painfully obvious, on another plane, the abbess was trying to sell a book that evening, somebodyâ€™s book of previously unreleased works with â€œtorturedâ€ handwriting and typos, with her name on it as editor, titled â€œEdgar Allan Poe & The Juke Box Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragmentsâ€, the work of Elizabeth Bishop. That evening, Ms. Quinn appeared somewhat propped up on the dais both intellectually and creatively by the likes of Pulitzer prizer and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, Jorie Graham, (a position formerly held by the legendary Seamus Heaney); Frank Bidard, co-editor of the Collected Works of Robert Lowell and nominee for the Pulitzer as well as National Book Awards; Pulitzer Prize winner Lloyd Schwartz, a frequent contributor to National Public Radio (NPR); and former Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize nominee Robert Pinsky, (a personal favorite and post-modern icon of the fuck-it-all-cool). Combined, the works of this crew enriches the most sophisticated of collections. It goes without saying, the air at such events is rarified, and this writer was excited to learn Dr. Pinsky was â€œnot playing poker these daysâ€, his rich â€œLife of Davidâ€ was in itâ€™s second printing, the Pinsky collaboration with Tod Machover on the cutting-edge opera Death and the Powers was on schedule to open in New Jersey in autumn of 2008, and that none of the 300 plus gathered in Longfellow had phoned 911 to quickly get Ms. Quinn to Logan Airport or perhaps a local asylum. At this writing, it appears that neither Harvard University nor Harvard Bookstore has approached her for any damages she may have done to the high-tech equipment the czarina of the self-addressed-stamped-envelope nervously, misused, banged and throttled throughout her presentation. Â But with the blaze of controversy following her these days over the crossed and marked up drafts of a deceased writer, the tension comes as no surprise. The gathering was done under the banner, â€œA Celebration of Elizabeth Bishopâ€, a modern poet of the so-called, â€œBoston Schoolâ€, and contemporary of John Berryman, Robert Lowell (with whom she held a lifelong, if not â€œcomplicatedâ€, friendship), and Plath and Sexton and that crew should you chose to stretch it. Ms. Quinn, recently took it upon herself to review, edit, and publish much of Bishopâ€™s work, unpublished by the author and asleep in the archives of Vassar College. Ms. Quinn has been poetry editor of The New Yorker since 1987, and prior to that worked in the publishing house of Alfred A. Knopf. What she has done with her latest venture could be considered daring. It has done to the poet world what Mike Tyson did for boxing by biting Evander Holyfieldâ€™s ear in a heavy-weight bout. Itâ€™s changed things. Itâ€™s rocked them to the degree that it is uncertain whether the giants of the genre gathered in Longfellow were there to â€œcelebrateâ€ Ms.Bishop or douse the sparks around Ms.Quinn. Their readings came from works published while Bishop was alive and put forth the bulk of them. Elizabeth Bishop had lived and written in an interesting and challenging time, an era of Castro, and Martin Luther King, Jr., of Lummumba and Ho Chi Minh, of the Kennedyâ€™s and Pollock and late Coltrane, and Hendrix for that matter. Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s life straddled a dynamic period of radical change on the planet, yet she did not write of shifting social phenomena directly, even while living it. Ms. Bishopâ€™s work, one could say, was somewhat â€œpluralizedâ€ inasmuch as she rolled with emotional undercurrents, deep waves of intense fear and anxiety, desire and loss, while cloaking much of it in nature. In her work â€œRain Towards Morningâ€ Bishop wrote; Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œThe great light cage has broken up in the air, Â freeing , I think, about a million birds Â whose wild ascending shadows will not be back, Â and all the wires come falling down. Â No cage, no frightening birds; the rain Â is brightening now. The face is pale Â that tried the puzzle of their prison Â and solved it with an unexpected kiss Â whose freckled unsuspected hands alit.â€ Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s life, from itâ€™s beginning, was somewhat challenged, with periodic glimpses of bliss from time to time later on. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911, Ms. Bishopâ€™s father died before her first birthday. Her mother suffered a series of mental breakdowns and was committed to a mental hospital, and Elizabeth spent a significant part of her youth with grandparents in Canada. After attending Vassar, where she struck up a friendship with the writer Mary McCarthy and founded a socially conscious â€œavant-gardeâ€, student literary magazine, the poet took off for New York City and Key West, Florida, and other points prior to breaking a string of rejections by the New York literati with her â€œThe Mapâ€ and â€œMan Mothâ€, in which she wrote: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you catch him Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Hold up a flashlight to his eye. Itâ€™s all dark pupil, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â an entire night itself, whose harried horizon tightens Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â as he stares back and closes up the eye . Then from the lids Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â one tear, his only possession, like a beeâ€™s sting, slips. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â slyly he palms it, and if youâ€™re not paying attention Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â heâ€™ll swallow it. However, if you watch, heâ€™ll hand it over, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.â€ Ms. Bishop, although not a particularly prolific writer, garnered a Pulitzer and influenced a significant number of contemporary American writers, Â among them Jorie Graham, while crafting only four slim volumes of work and 90 odd pieces. She received two Guggenheims, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and with work put forth in several languages can still, nonetheless, be viewed as a poster child of the poet as troubled spirit. She was Poet Laureate of the United States in 1949. There was the torrid 17 year lesbian affair with Lota de MacedoÂ Soares in Brazil, igniting some of her more powerful works, marked by alleged heavy drinking and ultimate betrayal on her part. This finally came to a crashing end with her return to the U.S. by the mid-sixties and Soaresâ€™ suicide. By then she had written â€œQuestions of Travelâ€, which included a painful segment addressing both a childâ€™s response to a motherâ€™s slide into insanity and her then predicament which Mr. Pinsky read at the â€œcelebrationâ€: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIs it lack of imagination that makes us come Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â to imagined places, not just stay at home? Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Or could Pascal have been not entirely right Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â about just sitting quietly in oneâ€™s own room? Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Continent, city, country, society: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The choice is never wide and never free. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And here, or thereâ€¦no. Should we have stayed at home, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â wherever that may be?â€ Itâ€™s a difficult genre in which to delve. Yet Ms. Quinn has swayed her way into controversy, sidestepping her usual review of works for the weekly editions of The New Yorker to morph into something different, some larger phenomena seeking its own bite of post-modernity by editing and annotating these previously unreleased works. Why? That question and controversy now rages in the semi-Jesuitical poet world and poet wannabes, and has, by the way, pissed-off some off many of the accomplished in the realm. Ms. Bishop was known for her meticulous review of her writing. Nothing went to publication until she was absolutely comfortable with it. â€œIs work that a writer chose not to publish during her lifetime fair game after she dies?,â€ queried Shelia Farr in The Seattle Times. â€œâ€¦it would be unfair to put forth work she (Bishop) considered immature, unsuccessful and/or incomplete as an equal part of her oeuvre, even though she didnâ€™t destroy it.â€ University of New Hampshire Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic, reviewed Ms. Quinnâ€™s effort in the New York Review of Books and wrote, â€œAs far as her reputation as a poet goes (Bishop), these 106 flawed and at times marvelous poems will only enhance it. This would not be true of most other poets, but Bishop is a special case. Determined as she was that every poem of hers should surprise the reader with something new, she rarely wrote the some kind of poem twice.â€ In fact, Elizabeth Bishop was known for perfecting her poetry, even working one for over a period of years. But Mr. Simic flinches, continuing that publication of the work, â€œmost certainly would have mortified her if she were still alive.â€ Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins also questioned the publication of the works, telling Motoko Rich of The New York Times, â€œI think, in a way, we have her collected poems, and that was Bishop at her best. Maybe that should be enough.â€ Given Ms. Quinnâ€™s position on the totem of publishing, there may be hesitation for criticism in some circles. The has hardly proven to be the case for Helen Vendler, now the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, the most caustic critic of the Quinn enterprise. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, and other critical periodicals, â€œShe is like a receiving station picking up on each poem, unscrambling things out of word-waves, making sense of it and making sure of it,â€ Seamus Heaney wrote of the professor. In a recent piece in The New Republic, â€œThe Art of Losingâ€, Ms. Vendler wrote of â€œEdgar Allen Poe & The Juke Boxâ€, â€œThis book should not have been issued with itâ€™s present subtitle of â€œUncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.â€ It should have been called â€œRepudiated Poems.â€ For Elizabeth Bishop had years to publish the poems included here, had she wanted to publish them.â€ They remained unpublished (not â€œuncollected) because, for the most part, they did not meet her fastidious standards (although a few, such as the completed love poem â€œIt is marvelous to wake up togetherâ€, may have been withheld out of prudence). At the invitation of Robert Lowell, Ms. Bishop relocated to Cambridge and taught briefly at Harvard. There she met and settled in with the last â€œlove of her lifeâ€, Alice Methfessel, and crafted her Plath like piercing work of loss, â€œOne Artâ€, prior to dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston in 1979. -Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shanâ€™t have lied. Itâ€™s evident The art of losingâ€™s not too hard to master Though it may look like (write it!) like disaster Ms. Quinn referred Ms. Methfessel, Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s executrix as â€œfantastic. She lets everybody into the archive. Because of this, there have been something like 10 books published on Bishop in the last 10 years. Bishop is now assigned reading in French High Schoolsâ€, she recently shared with John Riter in an article for the Boston Globe. The New Yorker is one of only a few remaining â€œgeneralâ€ reading magazines publishing poetry. That which it does, is main stream, nothing cutting edge, nothing controversial. Iâ€™d venture to say approaching minus an agent is not the best use of ones time. Alice Quinnâ€™s name isnâ€™t even mentioned in the Poetâ€™s Guide to Publishing. Itâ€™s difficult to say what will continue to ripple from this episode. The question, â€œIs work an author chooses not to publish during their life time good-to-go for others when they dieâ€?Â What is the standard?Â Itâ€™s particularly vexing given Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s self imposed high vector. Many of the works published by Alice Quinn are visibly marked or crossed out. Ms. Vendler challenges us, â€œQuinnâ€™s uninformative statement the drafts of â€œOne Artâ€ reads, â€˜In a book devoted to unfinished work, it seemed a good idea to provided drafts of a finished poemâ€™. But why is it a â€˜good ideaâ€™ if the drafts are illegible? And did Quinn or her publishers think that they were doing Bishop a service by offering her in unreadable formâ€? Vendler continues, â€œIn the long run, these newly published materials will be relegated to what Robert Lowell called â€œthe back stacks,â€ and this imperfect volume will be forgotten, except by scholars. The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings.â€ It will be interesting indeed to see how emerging as well as established writers secure their legacy. It will be interesting indeed to see if The New Yorker, and Ms. Quinn for that matter, stands for the count, or stays in the corner. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
 
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