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Publishers of the wierd... info request

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From: bgardner
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:31
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Hi :)
I'm a writer who writes really wierd things... like as in my stuff has
been compared to Beckett and Albee and Joyce (depending on what I'm writing)
and I would like to start being published now.  Every one who has ever read
my work has loved it (even those who hate me), but I didn't think I was ready
until this point.  But now the problem is finding publishers... from looking
over and over at the Writers Market I can not find any one who seems avant
garde enough... is that a failing on the part of the listers, or are there
truely no publishers out there that are willing to take a risk on something
that has never been tried before.  What I'm looking to publish is a play
entitled "Eves Dropping" which is about Adam, Eve, Eris, the apple (both
golden and biblical), the devil and sexuality.  It is as one of my friends
(who is also a writer of good caliber- something I would say of few) a
cross between Sheakespeare and Albee... who in the play writing world would
be intersted in publishing a poem of lyrical quality, but absurdist style?
As poetry comes round, my poems are typicalish... and I don't consider them
to be that extrodinary.  I think I can manage to find publishers for that...
it's getting excepted that will be hard.  The other thing I have a problem with
is that I am curently revising a 51 page (single spaced typed) prose-poetry
epic done in stream of conseness form.  As if this isn't enough of a risk for
a publisher to take I want to illustrate it with found immages and basically
what amounts to poster art (as I want to put text over the images)... the
finished product would look formally like Alice In Wonderland and read like
Finegan's Wake... the plot?  Don't ask... the title of the book is War Of The
Words... and it's devided into 11 "Word Wars."  Any ideas of a publisher
willing to take a risk on what could very well be ground breaking material?
No, I'm not stuck up... I know I sound it... I am just very confident in my
writing abilities... as so many people have complemented me so much.  I realize
that in the world of publishing being good is not enough though, so I am trying
to find the right people.
Any responses would be loved to death.  Flames included.  Please write to
bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu
Thank you very much for your time, and consideration.  May your lives be filled
with whatever you want them to be... :)
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This... some madman's desire, yet I've always admired the crazy
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						Brian
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