Monday, October 13, 2008
 
Book Report: A Friend Forever edited by Susan Polis Schutz (1980, 1982)
This is a simple collection of "poems" and quotes about friendship from famous people taken from magazines. Think of Reader's Digest's Quoted Quotables section, but with 70s pop art.

Again, it's good to read some bad poetry to remind you what good poetry is like. And some of this is not very good.

The strangest thing, though, is that the copy I have is from the third printing. And the book cost 4.95. In 1982. And I guess someone was buying them.

And, on the other hand, the editor and author of many of the poems within founded the company that published this book and created BlueMountain.com, which they sold to Excite for $780 million. So she's got that going for her. Me? I've published a couple of chapbooks and have a couple cool blogs.

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