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epitome of incomprehensibility
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After last night's Accent_Open_Mic, six of us participants were waiting for the same metro. I overheard the wordy guy from the States asking a poetry person which local press might publish his project.
("Wordy guy," huh. That's like a pot calling a kettle a vessel for heated water. They both are, even if the kettle holds water more often.)
Anyway, poetry guy says Vehicule Press doesn't take as many stylistic risks with its novels. And Metatron_Press? "Well...look at their recent roster. I don't know if they'd publish a White male postmodernist."
Wordy guy, "You *could* go too far with that kind of thing. But I don't want to be the kind of person who complains about that."
Even if he's vague in his on-the-spot thinking, I understood (I think) and approved of what he meant. On one hand, if you're *just* looking at identity politics, that's not actually very diverse. On the other hand, being sore about other people getting a small advantage when the groups they're in have had more disadvantages in the past? That reads as petty and unfairly privileged.
But he goes on, "They SAID they want things that are [I forget the adjective] and transgressive."
The poetry publisher has an answer for the first forgotten-by-me adjective. Then he jokes, "By transgressive they mean trans."
This makes me laugh, but I doubt this is quite accurate. For instance, the author of The End, By Anna (it_has_Antarctica_in_it) came out as non-binary after the first printing. It wasn't a prerequisite for the thing's publication, ffs
(with the "ffs" as two fused fricatives rather than "for fuck's sake")
aaaand then I could be name-droppy and say I know one of the publishers, I went to class with her
but even though I'm tired into awkwardness because I'm trying not always successfully to adjust my sleep schedule, I know how to hold my tongue better than in the days of cute_hipster_covers. Maybe. So I do not transgress or cisgress.
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