I agree that the idea of not publishing work that has been published before is often just plain silly in application. If you published a wonderful poem ten years ago in a regional literary magazine that ran off 700 copies and managed to sell a few dozen in the local bookstore, why on earth would an editor who admires that poem and would otherwise want to publish it today have a problem with that? Is he really worried that his readers will know the poem and feel they have been handed recycled goods?
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