Yeah even bestselling poets only sell a few hundred copies of their books, if that.

I do, but I'm a poet and have an undergraduate degree in poetry. Most poetry bought is probably bought by other poets lol.

Bukowski might have been close, but he's not terribly female-friendly lol

Lol nice catch

I think it was a little bit of both

I've been 150 pages from the end of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy for like a month now and can't bring myself to finish.

> wrote more letters in his life than most people ever dream possible

Writing letters back then was essentially like writing online comments. I'd bet the average person writes way more "correspondence" today than in the 1920s if you count messages online and texts, etc.

Some letters are better than others. The final collection of Charles Bukowski's letters is fantastic.

I used to feel bad for not liking T.S. Eliot more but as I've gotten older I don't feel so bad any more. He's often impenetrable just for the sake of being impenetrable. I can't pronounce half the languages he adds to his work for no reason, and it's not pleasant having to check end notes five times in four lines.

I LOVE "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Preludes" and poems like "Journey of the Magi," but so much of his work is overtly complex for the sake of being complex. You shouldn't have to have as many pages explaining the work as you have pages of actual work.

My only exposure to this book was the mentions in the movie "High Fidelity." I keep meaning to check it out.

One of my favorite short stories of all time is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez.

> because obviously class sizes are limited

Most community college are cancelling classes these days due to low enrollment. They might seat 20, for example, and have 14 in one and only three in another. So they cancel the second section and just move those students into the first if they can. Other times they'll cancel classes altogether.

When I teach adjunct it's about $2,500 for a semester to teach a full load (at least nine students). For every student less than that you get a pay cut, so most adjuncts won't teach for less than a full load. My class this coming spring only has five students, but I said I'd teach it anyway and it's only like $1,400 for approximately 16 weeks of work.