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Pif Magazine
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Subject: Stick It In Your Ear Curt Cloninger, Kindred Spirit, Jack Subject: Mary Magdalene by Wendy Dorsel
Fisher This is a fantastic poem, and a powerful experience to absorb in my first visit to your site. I will say that it's difficult to really concentrate on the poem's passage-by-passage unfolding with all those billboards and option flags alongside. This will be harder for me to get used to, as I read more publications on line. Somehow it seems as though a really effective Web site for poetry would allow the screen to be taken over entirely by the poem itself, in all its quietness and stark solitude. Since that's what many readers of poetry are seeking, these readers would come to your site more often, and would go back to the (more lively and busy) home page after reading the poem pages, and therefore the advertising and so forth that you do would ultimately be more effective. Jim Schley Subject: Vulcan Classical imagery of Nazi christian civilization titilates those within the fold. The academic sterility of derivative thought derived from derivative thought is sick fare for a people needing sustenance. Outside classicism is the rest of the world, most of the world. This is priest talk poetry spoken within crony circles that repeats the trite romanticism that masks the hideous ugliness of our age. And yes I have other modes of poetry I'll get back to submitting to you. People inside the bubble of American academic thought are pure Nazis even if they don't know the tradition they belong to. People with sex longings and shames love to create in words funny little episodes to show their artificiality is at least real to themselves and others of the same group fantasies. Well, let us break up the group fantasy and kill the mirror that reflects the protections of narcissism. Let everyone be published so that we can see our reflection in the mud puddle our ivory feet stand in. Subject: Dune Head by Kieron Devlin
Very nicely wrought story. Mr. Devlin is a powerful writer although I personally think these desolate dead-end themes are tiresome and futile. Yes, many people are in those dark places and many more are enroute but what does it mean?!? where does it lead?!?! Pls write more about that. Keep up the writing, Kieron, the world can use your voice. Lou Subject: Vulcan & Venus by LindaAnn Loschiavo
Allusions to ancient gods is a little passe, don't you think? In fact, most of the poetry picked by your editors is quite pretentious. Apparently selected for the credits of the poets and the length of their degrees. Look around. A magazine is only as good as the eyes and ears of its editors. Or else, it doesn't last long. Try harder. J.D.Heskin Subject: Vulcan Dear Pif: How exquisitely "Vulcan & Venus" plays the scales of rhyme, meter, double-entendre, mythology and passion. How rending, familiar, redeeming. Ms Loschiavo's tribute to our lame artisan has earned well its pride of place in this month's edition of pif.com. Do you know where I might find more of her work? B. Goz, London Subject: Vulcan LindaAnn Loschiavo's "Vulcan and Venus" is superb. I hope to see more of her work in your journal. Larry Lockridge Subject: Re: Alicubi Richard, I read the review today in _Pif_. We are really pleased over here at Alicubi. Thanks very much for publishing it. Let me know if there's anything we can do for you. Martin
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