11-25-2024, 01:27 PM
(11-25-2024, 06:01 AM)carahmellow Wrote: How is this happening and WHY? Why are people being manipulated into thinking "I can't love you into being a good person" is worth $20.00? And who decides what bad poetry gets published? There is at least MEDIOCRE poetry that is just as easy to understand... so what gives?
One word: marketing.
If you have the right person backing you, who can pour millions into putting a shite collection of poems (but with a pretty cover) into every bookshop, you have a start.
People will complain about the shite book. But that will give it publicity.
People who haven't read a poem in their lives will pick up the book just out of curiosity. They will see a 'published poet' say
The echoes of your heartbeat
drown me.
and go 'wow! that is just like how I write! this is a poet for me!'
You can possibly write a book on how man never went to the moon and if it has a pretty cover and has some marketing behind it...