Chapbooks are an odd little thing. I go back and forth between love and hate and I think mostly this is because I've held some truly terrible chapbooks (just thrown together poems, crudely stapled spines, black and white faded covers, etc) and also some of the best writing and best looking little books ever (Greying Ghost Press immediately pops into my head). Sure, it's not a perfect bound book. There's something different about chapbooks and it can be exciting or you can cringe knowing the author has published roughly 19 chapbooks in his life-time, all out of print. THE CHAPBOOK REVIEW recently published their November issue and it got me excited. There's a really cool and interesting "roundtable discussion" with a bunch of publishers and editors of chapbooks. It pretty much answers any questions people have about chapbooks and it makes it feel important that people are publishing them.
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This is good info. Thanks!
I agree, sometimes chapbooks can have some terrible content. But when I read a good one and think about it... I like the raw, poorly stapled chapbooks. Sometimes the best writing can be found in self constructed literature.
As you said, it is a love/hate relationship.
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