The Neurotic-Growling-Self-Loathing Side of Poetry Biz
“Really?!” I mutter to myself, “Norton (or Knopf, or FSG, or Copper Canyon, or…) sees fit to publish this sentimental mediocrity?!” This little conversation with myself not infrequently happens when I get to the bottom of whatever poem I’ve been reading on Verse Daily or Poetry Daily in The New Yorker. I recognize that it is not useful.
This essay is marvelous. I know I often feel the same way as do many of my writerly friends.
