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I really enjoyed your site
Jim Tell <jt@listel.com>
- Monday, November 13, 2000 at 13:16:19 (EST)
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Jim Show <jsho@listel.com>
- Tuesday, November 07, 2000 at 17:31:25 (EST)
Peter Smith
USA - Friday, October 13, 2000 at 20:09:28 (EDT)
I really liked your site. I like your english class too!! Your site has some good info on it.
Jenna Cothron <jenna@svic.net>
Cross City, fl USA - Thursday, October 12, 2000 at 00:18:22 (EDT)
This is a very nice place !
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Gospic, Li Croatia - Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 03:53:28 (EDT)
Ditto on the dissapointment to find Amazon lurking behind "smallpress.net" I see shades of a "people do" campaign -- a PR gesture to downplay predatory behavior toward independent bookstores. Here's my alternative: www.bookpassage.com. Same "warehouse", fast shipping and great reviews.
Teresa <mattiemojo@yahoo.com>
Oakland, CA USA - Monday, December 20, 1999 at 19:13:18 (EST)
Enjoy the site -have recently created my own online chapbook. Greetings to you all from a very windy and rainy Oxford, England at the turn of the century!
shaun belcher <sdb@bodley.ox.ac.uk>
OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - Saturday, December 18, 1999 at 07:42:27 (EST)
: ) Living so seemingly far from civilization, this place made me happy. I enjoyed all but one of the editor's picks for poetry and loved a few of them. This is magnificent. Happy Turkey Day to you all, and no, I am not inebriated.
Thankful before the 25th
Nowhere, CO USA - Wednesday, November 17, 1999 at 00:22:35 (EST)
Great Site! One thing though, I got excited when I saw the banner for small press books.net. I thought, "Finally, an alternative to Amazon!" but when I clicked through their links, they took me to Amazon. I currently use Amazon on my site and would like to use something else that has the same large selection? Any suggestions????
krystal ashe <krystalashe@freshpoetry.com>
Chicago, IL USA - Friday, November 05, 1999 at 07:13:58 (EST)
A ray of sunlight, a breath of fresh air, and nary a cliche anywhere. Thanks for the trip!
Dawn Reno <dawnreno@isgroup.net>
Lake City, FL USA - Saturday, October 30, 1999 at 18:57:59 (EDT)
Just checking out Karen Masullo's work and can't wait to look around! Love the links too! Thanks.
Susan Maree Jeavons <blueeyedreb@alltel.net>
Rome, OH USA - Monday, October 04, 1999 at 20:02:41 (EDT)
I'll be back.
Joel Waldman <poet@mcn.org>
Elk, CA USA - Friday, October 01, 1999 at 12:29:16 (EDT)
Highbeams, the online poetry journal of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, is now accepting submissions for upcoming issues. Please send works of poetry, fiction (no genre-based, please), and nonfiction to: highbe@www.beloit.edu Please visit our website to see past issues. We look forward to reading your work. Sincerely, Robyn Nisi Editor
h i g h <b e a m s>
Beloit, WI USA - Thursday, September 02, 1999 at 20:44:56 (EDT)
Blue Reincarnation (Narcissus, oil painting by Jaisini) The theme of Narcissus in Jaisini's "Blue..." may be paralleled with the problem of the two-sexes-in-one, unable to reproduce and, therefore, destine to the Narcissus-like end. Meanwhile, the Narcissus legend lasts. In the myth of Narcissus a youth gazes into the pool. As the story goes, Narcissus came to the spring or the pool and when his form was seen by him in the water, he died among the water-nymphs because he desired to make love to his own image. Maybe the new Narcissus, as in "Blue Reincarnation," is destined to survive by simply changing his role from a passive man to an aggressive woman, and so on. To this, can be added that, eventually, a man creates a woman whom he loves out of himself or a woman creates a man and loves her own image, but in the male form. The theme of narcissism recreates the 'lost object of desire.' "Blue" also raises the problem of conflating ideal actual and the issue of the feminine manhood and masculine femininity. There is another story about Narcissus fell which said that he had a twin sister and they were exactly alike in appearance. Narcissus fell in love with his sister and, when the girl died, would go to the spring finding some relief for his love in imagining that he saw not his own reflection, but the likeness of his sister. "Blue" creates a remarkable and complex psychopathology of the lost, the desired, and the imagined. Instead of the self, Narcissus loves and becomes a heterogeneous sublimation of the self. Unlike the Roman paintings of Narcissus, that show him alone with his reflection by the pool, the key dynamic in Jaisini's "Blue" is the circulation of the legend that does not end and is reincarnated in transformation when autoeroticism is not permanent, and is not single by definition. In "Blue," we risk to be lost in the double reflection of a mirror and never to define on which side of the mirror is Narcissus. The picture's color is not a true color of spring water. This kind of color is a perception of a deep seated human belief in the concept of eternity, the rich saturated cobalt blue. The ultrahot, hyperreal red color of the figure of Narcissus is not supposed to be balanced in the milieu of the radical blue. Jaisini realizes the harmony in the most exotic color combination. While looking at "Blue," we can recall the spectacular color of night sky, deranged by a vision of some fierce fire ball. The disturbance of colors create some powerful and awe-inspiring beauty. In the picture's background, we find the animals' silhouettes which could be a memory reflection or a dream fragments. In the story Narcissus has been hunting - an activity that was itself a figure for sexual desire in antiquity. Captivated by his own beauty, the hunter sheds a radiance that, one presumes, reflects to haunt and foster his desire. The flaming color of the picture's Narcissus alludes the erotic implications of the story and its unresolved problem of the one who desires himself and traps in the erotic delirium. The concept can be applied to an ontological difference between the artist's imitations and their objects. In effect, Jaisini's Narcissus could epitomize artistic aspiration to control levels of reality and imagination, to align the competition of art and life, of image with imaginable prototype. Jaisini's "Blue" is a unique work that adjoins reflection to reality without any instrumentality. "Blue" is a single composition that depicts the reality and its immediate reflection. Jaisini builds the dynamics of desire between Narcissus and his reflection-of-the-opposite by giving him the signs of both sexes, but not for the purpose of creating a hermaphrodite. The case of multiple deceptions in "Blue" seems to be vital to the cycle of desire. Somehow it reminds of the fate of the artists and their desperate attempts to evoke and invent the nonexistent. "Blue" is a completely alien picture to Jaisini's "Reincarnation" series. The pictures of this series are painted on a plain ground of canvas that produces the effect of free space filled with air. "Blue", to the contrary, has the reminiscence of an underwater lack of air, The symbolism of this picture's texture and color contributes to the mirage of reincarnation. by Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb "Blue Reincarnation" (Oil painting) by Paul Jaisini, New York 1999, Text Copyright: Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Send private comments to author Yustas61@aol.com
yustas kotz-gottlieb <yustas61@aol.com>
NY, NY USA - Thursday, August 05, 1999 at 20:45:53 (EDT)
just found website from issue of poets&writers. i have had poems published and now in process of trying to write a manuscript. i find it very difficult in trying to write and work full time as nurse. we need more websites like yours. "IN 1978 THIS NURSE JOINED THE ARMY THE MILITARY BEGAN TO PANIC WHEN THE ARMY FOUND OUT THIS NURSE WAS TRAINED AS MECHANIC. THIS NURSE THEN WROTE CONGRESSMAN TO INFORM HIM OF INJUSTICE DONE
donna crowder <crwdr1@aol.com>
merced, ca usa - Friday, July 23, 1999 at 01:37:06 (EDT)
Super cool site. Very enlightening!
Shazzar Kallie <skallie@hotmail.com>
Long Beach, CA USA - Wednesday, July 21, 1999 at 00:41:22 (EDT)
As the man said, “Precision of language bespeaks clarity of thought and profundity of vision.”
Julius Hartbright <julius@hartbright.com>
Sweetwater, TN United States - Tuesday, June 15, 1999 at 18:31:42 (EDT)
Dear Lucifer: Of course, you are referring to Dejah Thoris. The UNCOMPARABLE Dejah Thoris! Or is in INCOMPARABLE!??
Burroughs Fan <Nevermind>
Area 51, NV USA - Saturday, May 22, 1999 at 13:57:09 (EDT)
My father wrote a book entitled "Pages From the Xarachkstax." He designated that all proceeds from his book go to League in Support of Animals. If you are interested in more information about his book or how to obtain a copy please contact me at gvorja@yahoo.com.
Gvorja Busby <gvorja@yahoo.com>
Franklinton, LA USA - Friday, May 21, 1999 at 14:08:27 (EDT)
Dear Deejah, Who cares really? Deejah, what a curious name. Did you ever read "John Carter, Warlord of Mars"??
Lucifer
Hades, RI USA - Friday, May 14, 1999 at 23:32:01 (EDT)
DEAR Lucifer "booger nose": your remarks about CD Wright's poetry are absurd since the lines are taken out of context. You are obviously seizing on something trivial and using it to make a foolish case.
Deejah Kyle
Jacksonville, FL USA - Friday, May 14, 1999 at 15:28:31 (EDT)
Bite me you big-balled boogie man. Bite me you big-balled boogie man. So says CD Wright. Simply astonishing to think a poet of such shallowness teaches at Brown University and heads the Creative Writing Program. I suggest she sit down and partake of some of the offered classes.
Lucifer <booger@nose.com>
Waycross, GA USA - Friday, May 14, 1999 at 12:33:28 (EDT)
Like the Louvre or the British Museum, it would take a month to absorb everything here, but glad I stopped by and will come again. One question: Who's the kid on the beach? Nice shades.
Laura Denham <Ldenham@aol.com>
San Francisco, CA USA - Thursday, April 29, 1999 at 02:22:50 (EDT)
I love it! It has been a while since I've explored the world of the literary magazine. It's wonderful to find so much good writing in one place. I'm putting your link on my web site. Thank you!
Gretchen Bourquin <gretchlee@uswest.net>
Coon Rapids, MN USA - Thursday, April 22, 1999 at 18:09:27 (EDT)
And there I was, standing alone in an open doorway. The cool wind blew at my back while I turned to see if I had everything that I needed, if I was truly ready to go on. But I was; my heart was pounding, it was racing at all ends and every beat louder than the last. I had to see her. Her fragrance still lingers in the air and the memories of her soft pedal like skin are all that keep me alive. No longer can I hold these thoughts and feelings within. She must know, I must know...
ern <ern29@hotmail.com>
cumming, ga USA - Monday, April 19, 1999 at 10:34:47 (EDT)
I find ths site very relaxing and enjoyable. It does not assume anything, rather allows you to approach the areas you decide. I will return, often.
Phillip G. Conner <pgreg4@juno.com>
New York, NY USA - Thursday, April 08, 1999 at 05:41:50 (EDT)
I gandered at the forest and found it exceedingly lame.
Tee Esseliot <yeah, right.>
Prov., RI USA - Saturday, March 06, 1999 at 13:35:48 (EST)
So many web sites, sooo much drek; it's nice to find some nectar.
David cisek <dcisek0946@aol.com>
New York, ny USA - Thursday, March 04, 1999 at 08:10:53 (EST)
Do I really have to read Brodsky's book to find out if he really means that the Hudson was flowing backwards? I guess I don't understand literary genius is. I have to conclude that maybe this is an example of Robert Anton Wilson might term "post modern literary mindfuck?" Is it Brodsky's intention here to make us question reality itself?
Leif Halvorson <drung@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, March 03, 1999 at 14:10:55 (EST)
You hit my car in the parking lot and punched me in the eye afterwards. How dare you! I am doing some lines right now with Chaffin (we're near an outhouse.)
Byron L. Sacre <Sacre@olestra.com>
Big Otter, WV USA - Thursday, February 25, 1999 at 21:21:01 (EST)
Very cool page....lots of things still left for me to check out....but most definately like what I've gotten to see so far : ) Keep up the great work!
Jen <Jeniviev2@aol.com>
PA USA - Tuesday, February 23, 1999 at 01:07:34 (EST)
Just found this site, and it's great! I am a writer of poetry and have many poems as well as two finished manuscripts that I am trying to get published without any success as of yet. But this site is a wonderful place to visit, and if you have any comments or suggestions about how to get my work published or viewed please e-mail me and let me know. Thank you for your time. Dale Fraser
Dale Fraser <fraser.d@juno.com>
Boston, Ma USA - Monday, February 22, 1999 at 19:56:09 (EST)
An interesting setup. THis just goes to show one of the potential benefits of electronic publishing - the presentation of small chapbooks of people's works - so if you decide you like someone, you have the opportunity to read more right away, and won't have to hope they'll be published again in the future.
Troy Camplin <zatavu@excite.com>
Hattiesburg, MS USA - Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 02:32:30 (EST)
Hi Michael! Just wanted to tell you that I've just received the current issue of Gotta Write, the one with your letter in it. It will be mailed to you within the week. As always, I love your site. It is one of the best on the Web. Keep up the great work.
Denise Fleischer <Netera@aol.com>
Hoffman Estates, IL USA - Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 13:38:41 (EST)
I don't like the music that's playing as I write this. Could you please exchange it for some Merle Haggard?
John Cash <cashy@nashville.net>
Nashville, TN USA - Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 20:22:55 (EST)
Extremely lorby, slightly Stalinistic. Mayhaps I shall return. PS. Speaking of writers, what ever happened with Arthur C. Clarke's knighthood after it was withheld (2 h's?) pending charges of pedophilia in Sri Lanka?
Joyce Carol Wheat <booger@nose.com>
Saginaw, MI USA - Monday, February 15, 1999 at 10:52:59 (EST)
This world needs more people to give money to more Mike Neffs so we can have more lit on the web.
Mike Neff <editor@webdelsol.com>
Vienna, VA USA - Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 12:38:12 (EST)
God bless Web Del Sol!
Melanctha Williams
Towson, PA USA - Saturday, February 13, 1999 at 12:34:34 (EST)
This world needs more Mike Neffs
Guy Shahar
New York, NY USA - Friday, February 12, 1999 at 20:29:53 (EST)
in a world with no time to catch up, you still get us to the finish-line, breathless and puking; and the next...and the next... red slider www.jps.net/redslider
redslider <redslider@jps.net>
N. Cal, CA USA - Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 16:10:53 (EST)
marvelous...simply marvelous. dear me! i must run, it's tea time. :)smile.
joeyglann <jgglann@stny.irun.com>
binghamton, ny USA - Tuesday, February 09, 1999 at 15:18:53 (EST)
Elaine - I think the trick is to just go with it. Always a good read, Mike.
John Carle <ulysses@mindspring.com>
Atlanta, GA USA - Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 20:50:53 (EST)
I'm not thinking too good right now.
byron sacre
Analville, Huh? - Sunday, February 07, 1999 at 12:32:33 (EST)
This place is enormous. How do you keep from getting lost?
Elaine Kent
Milan, Italy - Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 15:02:04 (EST)
Can't stay away from web del sol, even while overseas! Spreading the word.
Kip Rosenfeld
Milan, Italy - Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 14:15:04 (EST)