Michael Juster* is right on Matthew's thread:
"There are no minor accomplishments--just triumphs that are inadequately spun!"
I can add here the fact that Barnes & Noble in Columbia South Carolina sold 6 of thirteen copies of my self-published chapbook. I know the poems were really good because apparently seven other people were so desperate to have the poems they
shoplifted their copies.
I didn't know it but I just went to
Barnes & Noble and they advertise through resellers two childrens books I illustrated with pen and ink drawings some years ago. Put thomas jardine in the search. They are very expensive: $3.95 and down. Paperbacks.
They were published by Barbara Holdridge, who was one of the founders of Cadmeon Records, the spoken arts. She went around and recorded lots of the poets when LP's were the deal. She looked at my poems at the time and cringed. She did say, however, "if you want to write poetry, you can't do anything else." Now I'm unemployed.
I'm out of print but totally famous! (Spin, spin)
TJ
*Hope you don't mind I quote you.
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