Saturday, June 2, 2012
Yellow Marker Poetics
I am sitting with a used copy of the 1996 4th Ed. of Gary Geddes compilation of 20th Century poetry and poetics. The publisher allowed him to add a note to the Preface especially for the 4th edition. That note comes shortly after his advising the reader (student?) that he agrees with the ( then living) “Czech (sic) poet Cseslaw Milosz that poetry is [...]”
So what about an electronic edition? The Lithuanian-Polish Czesław Miłosz, then teaching at Berkeley, might have a footnote, a reference – even a correction.
The reader who preceded me was not concerned with annotation or glosses - a yellow marker pen sufficed.
Did editor and acclaimed poet Geddes even after 3 editions not yet realize that he, too, might benefit from an editor?
Let the newly-minted teaching assistants and lecturers belly-ache: if the e-book has a competent editor and a facility for annotation we may not fall as far short of the mark as some paper editions of the recent past.
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