LITERARY DEFORESTATION: Some Thoughts about Commercialism & Publishing

	In the forests of literature 
	there are so many trees!
	Each is a work of art 
	& part of a broader tapestry.

	Some literary works are like cedars 
	towering in the heights.
	Others resemble dwarf bonsai
	unnoticed by passers by.

	Some become magnificent ferns 
	with verdant canopies.
	Others display gaudy fronds 
	unfurling mysteriously.

	All these, however, share a common fate:
	in societies where everything is justified by profit,
	the chain saws of commercialism
	& bulldozers of industry never wait.

	Each piece of literature is a commodity
	for a market shelf.
	What doesn't sell soon disappears:
	words fade quickly without pelf. 


Juanita: What good are such lamentations?

Jack:    Yeah. Isn't it naive to expect commercialism to disappear?

Shu:     Don't be poisoned by cynicism. Ideas that seem naive at first often change history.

Jack:    Ha! Who said "history" is a single story? I think of it as a collection of 
         stories that often change.


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from Lit-A-Rupture: A Post Literary Construction by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A conversation, poem, and image about how commercial interests often shape the publishing industry.
KEYWORDS:  commercialization of literature, pecuniary publishing priorities, capitalist publishing houses

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1995 in Shizuoka, Japan  ⨳ Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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