Guerilla Poetics Project
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PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
What's your opinion on just placing copies of Buk's poems, one of the manuscripts, randomly, like stuffed inside a newspaper at the 7-11 or in a coffe shop "books to browse" shelf or stapled to a telephone pole?
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Don't be so hard on yourself. Your time means something...to you.
Nah, I wouldn't really go out of my way to do it. It's just my mind wandering. Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks and enroll in the project.
Nah, I wouldn't really go out of my way to do it. It's just my mind wandering. Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks and enroll in the project.
Hosh
hoshomccreesh.com
As his current publisher, I'd say that is something that Ecco should do...as they stand to benefit from it most.
It begs the question though: do people still engage with the physical world like this...or has the digital world taken over? Case in point: some of the GPP broadsides bounce around Tumblr., Pinterest, Instagram, etc. -- reaching tens of thousands of eyes (albeit in a mainly transitory fashion). The tactile, lasting letterpress broadside is a thing people can keep and stick up on their wall...
But do people do it?
mjp
Founding member
It isn't active anymore.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Hosh
hoshomccreesh.com
It doesn't publish new stuff.
You can, however, still buy broadsides to hide (or keep).
http://guerillapoetics.org/store/
mjp
Founding member
Everything old is new again.
Emma Watson Is Leaving Secret Notes in Books on the London Subway
"Books On The Underground" is a version of Book Crossing, which some of us were doing 15 years ago (and from which we borrowed the method for registering the GPP broadsides).
Emma Watson Is Leaving Secret Notes in Books on the London Subway
"Books On The Underground" is a version of Book Crossing, which some of us were doing 15 years ago (and from which we borrowed the method for registering the GPP broadsides).
mjp
Founding member
The GPP website has been updated for use in the 21st century.
The old site was a relic of the 90s, even though it was built in 2006. It had a certain vintage charm, sure, but it was pretty unusable on a tablet or phone, and as far as Google was concerned, it was almost invisible.
The old site was a relic of the 90s, even though it was built in 2006. It had a certain vintage charm, sure, but it was pretty unusable on a tablet or phone, and as far as Google was concerned, it was almost invisible.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
I shall be doing the same.:)
mjp
Founding member
The Guerilla Poetics Project website has been updated again. Just when you thought it was dead forever! If you thought of it at all, which you probably don't.
What changed? Well, it's always bugged me that each broadside didn't have its own page/URL. Now they do. Like so:
https://guerillapoetics.org/broadsides/a-shy-and-quiet-mourning/
In the past, all you could link to was the broadside image or the poet page. Not that millions are linking to the site, but there you go.
The broadsides were also rescanned and larger images are up there now.
On an invisible technology note, making pages for each broadside made it possible to add schema data. Which just means Google will know more about the broadsides now. For example:
Now you can sleep soundly.
What changed? Well, it's always bugged me that each broadside didn't have its own page/URL. Now they do. Like so:
https://guerillapoetics.org/broadsides/a-shy-and-quiet-mourning/
In the past, all you could link to was the broadside image or the poet page. Not that millions are linking to the site, but there you go.
The broadsides were also rescanned and larger images are up there now.
On an invisible technology note, making pages for each broadside made it possible to add schema data. Which just means Google will know more about the broadsides now. For example:
Now you can sleep soundly.
The latest find? Two weeks ago.
Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Back in the day, I stuck dozens of GPP broadsides into lit books in my local city library, including about 35 Bukowski books. A year ago that library dumped a third of their entire book collection, for no good reason. Now they have only three Bukowski books remaining. Where the Bukowski books with the broadsides went is anyone's guess. I didn't see any at the annual library book sale where some of the dumped books went. Just thought I'd mention this for the record.