/lit/ - Literature

>>21889852

> First, how are you?
Quite sleepy so forgive any spelling mistakes im invariably going to make

> Who are some of you favorite living poets/writers?
That's tough most are long dead. I guess Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Nicholson Baker. Though if the recently deceased count i'd nominate Richard Wilbur and Les Murray.

> what are your opinions on online vs trad publishing?
Well, i did both and so far they feel pretty much the same, except you get more feedback self publishing.
Normally you work hard, send it to a journal or a magazine, wait 3 months to get excepted and then it's out the next year and you dont hear about about it again. I found it quite thankless.

>do you think online platforms have any worthwhile poetry communities?
Im sure they exist but my experience has mostly been talking to people over social media.
If you know of any point me to em.

> >Do you think there is an audience for good writing?
Now thats the big question.
I get enough readers to make it worthwhile, but everyone's mileage will vary. Are there enough attentive poetry readers to make good poetry anything other then a curiosity?
Even for the tiktok and instagram audience you can only jazz things up so much. In the end you are still writing about the first world war and the assassination Franz Ferdinand.

I dont know

> >How do you advertise your work?
I dont.
i mostly use substack as a hosting platform to send potential publishers.
i guess I post here and on a few Discords . Everyone else are just friends and family.

>What is your opinion on the role of difficult poetry vs throwaway instagram poets?
i inadvertently answered this above.
For what it's worth i get around 150-200 readers on average and have some 30 subscribers and thats without much outreach.
There is at least some interest.

>>21712629
Because they wouldn't sell to Disney for advertising bucks. Yeah, still pretty popular

>>21489971
V. Nabokov hated Faulkner's "velvety negroes", none more velvety than Benjy, the incarnation of 'rightness', who howls when the "wrong" way back home taken, when natural order, or divine law is defiled.
>was Faulkner trying to say that there's a possibility of redemption or salvation for the Compsons within Christianity?
>If so what was the point of Jason beating Benjy at the end?
To silence him.
"And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country."
The Compsons reject Benjy's message. They reject Christianity as well. They will be destroy themselves with pride and violence, and Benjy will continue his role as prophet and witness, some bastard cross between Christ and the wandering jew.
It's an excellent novel regardless of my hackneyed frenzy of words.

Moominposting :))))