Yesterday Jeff Side announced the e.publication of Shadows of the Future,  an anthology of otherstream poetry (or, in some cases–in my possibly excessively picky opinion–almost otherstream poetry) edited by Marc Vincenz, and published by Argotist Ebooks.  So I’m going to use this entry for some words about it instead of going on to the second part of my investigation of protozoa.  That I will do tomorrow, assuming I choose to continue my investigation (and I hope I do–nothing more valuable for the ol’ brain than a plunge into something you don’t know hardly nothin’ about).

Interesting.  When looking for what categories to assign this entry to, I found I had none for “Poetry.”  I do now.  So I can bring up that subject to tell you the anthology has 120 works, almost all of them poems by my definition, on 166 pages . . .

and here a digression to complain about my stupid computer (or, yeah, my stupid inability to know how use it):  I would like to be able to click from here to the anthology the way I can click from here to a file on my word processer or anywhere else but totally out of it.  There must be a way to save it as a regular file I can access on my word processer; if so, I’m ignorant of it.  So I have a second copy of this entry on the slot (can’t remember its name) with everything I can click to on it.  To get to the anthology, I go to that entry, and click the link in it to the anthology.  Very annoying.

Back to the anthology now.  Marc has a nice one-page forward in it.  Following it is a page-and-a-half introduction to it by me which is just my standard boilerplate about the refusal of the Establishment to so much as acknowledge the existence of the Otherstream.  Basically it’s a polemic intended to annoy estabniks enough to make them reply to it.  It has little chance of doing that but what else can I do?  I think it presents a good definition of the establishment, though.

My only real disappointment with the anthology is how little visual poetry is in it–but that was because, for some reason, few visual poets submitted anything to it.  There were visual poems by seven people–and textual poems by five people like mIEKAL aND who often do visual poetry.  In all, 37 had works in the anthology.  When going through it doing my counts, I spent a few minutes with my own poems.  One of them disturbed me:  I decided it was wrong!  Here is the wrong version:

 

I doubt anyone but I would see what is wrong (crucially wrong, in my view) with this, but just for the fun of it, I won’t say more about it, nor show the corrected version for a while.

I’m too worn out from being too worn out to say much more about the anthology.  Before signing off, though, I want to recommend it strongly.  It’s an excellent tour of what’s going on in the vast countryside beyond the borders of the mainstream.  The vispo cover by David Chirot is worth the trouble of clicking to it alone!  That one work will give you more to wander through thoughts and feelings about by itself than the entirety of most mainstream anthologies of contemporary poetry.

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Yesterday Jeff Side announced the e.publication of Shadows of the Future,  an anthology of otherstream poetry (or, in some cases–in my possibly excessively picky opinion–almost otherstream poetry) edited by Marc Vincenz, and published by Argotist Ebooks.  So I’m going to use this entry for some words about it instead of going on to the second part of my investigation of protozoa.  That I will do tomorrow, assuming I choose to continue my investigation (and I hope I do–nothing more valuable for the ol’ brain than a plunge into something you don’t know hardly nothin’ about).

Interesting.  When looking for what categories to assign this entry to, I found I had none for “Poetry.”  I do now.  So I can bring up that subject to tell you the anthology has 120 works, almost all of them poems by my definition, on 166 pages . . .

and here a digression to complain about my stupid computer (or, yeah, my stupid inability to know how use it):  I would like to be able to click from here to the anthology the way I can click from here to a file on my word processer or anywhere else but totally out of it.  There must be a way to save it as a regular file I can access on my word processer; if so, I’m ignorant of it.  So I have a second copy of this entry on the slot (can’t remember its name) with everything I can click to on it.  To get to the anthology, I go to that entry, and click the link in it to the anthology.  Very annoying.

Back to the anthology now.  Marc has a nice one-page forward in it.  Following it is a page-and-a-half introduction to it by me which is just my standard boilerplate about the refusal of the Establishment to so much as acknowledge the existence of the Otherstream.  Basically it’s a polemic intended to annoy estabniks enough to make them reply to it.  It has little chance of doing that but what else can I do?  I think it presents a good definition of the establishment, though.

My only real disappointment with the anthology is how little visual poetry is in it–but that was because, for some reason, few visual poets submitted anything to it.  There were visual poems by seven people–and textual poems by five people like mIEKAL aND who often do visual poetry.  In all, 37 had works in the anthology.  When going through it doing my counts, I spent a few minutes with my own poems.  One of them disturbed me:  I decided it was wrong!  Here is the wrong version:

 

I doubt anyone but I would see what is wrong (crucially wrong, in my view) with this, but just for the fun of it, I won’t say more about it, nor show the corrected version for a while.

I’m too worn out from being too worn out to say much more about the anthology.  Before signing off, though, I want to recommend it strongly.  It’s an excellent tour of what’s going on in the vast countryside beyond the borders of the mainstream.  The vispo cover by David Chirot is worth the trouble of clicking to it alone!  That one work will give you more to wander through thoughts and feelings about by itself than the entirety of most mainstream anthologies of contemporary poetry.

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