About a Rejection

[janecsyracuse]

Okay, Write Bloody didn't take me. They took a lot of you. It's going to take a while to get over the hurt and the left-behindness I always seem to feel while trying to cultivate some kind of poetry career type thing. It's always a combination feeling- poems going unread plus being left out in a group-of-friends kind of way

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[ocvictor]

Argh. I'm sorry to hear that, Jane.

[janecsyracuse]

Thanks pals...whining about it helps. :)

[rubislippers]

Hard to believe Jane.
I'm so sorry.
You are better than that!

[inkog_neato]

Was it just a single poem or was it a whole book?
I find it hard to believe they would reject a whole book.

[janecsyracuse]

Yep, the whole thing. They were only choosing 6 books and I came in 7th or 8th. The notes they gave me seemed like they were very minor formatting things, actually. Like, they wanted less footnotes? Would I have argued to keep the footnotes? Probably, but having them come between me and a spine-having book, it's frustrating.

They also said they'd have wanted more mystery about who the poems were for, which was a huge surprise--I left in some personal ones after reading Derrick's most recent and Good Things About America--both are rife with inside jokes and first names, that is part of the appeal, I think.

I've got to keep trying to find the thing a home, footnotes or no. But I'm gonna sulk for a few more days. :)