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Andrew, I admit I'm quite conflicted about the economics of publishing. Chris H-E, who runs Salt Publishing, is undeniably doing good service for poets (for example, Katy Evans-Bush) by publishing their books. Publishers shouldn't have to go broke.
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That'll teach me me not to jump to conclusions, won't it. I didn't realize it was a publisher who wrote it, I thought it was a self-help, like those "how to write a poem" that drove me up the wall when I had to buy them for university classes. They were expensive too.
So I take it back. If I knew that the book was from the horse's mouth I would buy it. That is finding out things from the source. I hope his credentials were on the book, other Eratosphere members whom I trust have vouched for him.
So don't pay any attention to me, folks. I am always opening my mouth before I leap into a puddle.
You do remember correctly, Maryann. AE Stalling's
Antiblurb adorns the back of
Hapax. And I bought her books because of Eratospherians who raved about them (I am not
always stoopid) and on Alicia's recommendations here, (rather a comment I snapped up as a recommendation,) I bought three books by Agha Shaid Ali and two by Natasha Trethewey and never regreted any of those purchases for a moment.
In a similar way and on the subject of getting published, in my youth, in a foreign country with no peers to connect to and very little money for subscriptions and books, I used to look at the acknowledgements page of library books I borrowed, to see where poets I admired had sent their work and then tried those magazines. I do that even now though the wide plainlands of net poetry is available to explore.