Thank you for this Liza! This is just the sort of introduction I always wish authors would provide: part teaser, part backstory. As you must have noticed by now, I'm well capable of digging into a poem on my own, but there's always that little itch of curiosity about what the author was thinking when those lines were written. At least for me there is, since I'm not a pure textualist. (Pure textual criticism reminds me of pure materialistic atheism: the words are there on the page, but they don't seem to believe that an Author actually exists or is relevant to the reading.) I've always rather wished I could have coffee with Keats (of course I subscribed to that substack) or run into Eliot at the pub for a good talk. This is a bit of that.
You did such a wonderful job on Girl Soldier, Liza! These poems sound absolutely fascinating! So many topics that well-worth exploring and some very timely commentary on antisemitism in America today and the question of whether it was worth women be liberated? Girl Soldier may have only sold 23 copies so far but don't fret! Remember your just getting started and there is still plenty of time for 100 copies to be sold. I wanted to apologize that I sent you all those messages yesterday as I mentioned on LinkedIn. I wanted to reach out to you where I saw a recent Substack note where you seemed angry and upset that people keep spamming you with all these messages telling you to go Indie, you did and only 23 copies were sold. So, you had to just keep querying. I was really concerned because I can't recall a time where you seemed so frustrated and upset in a note or in general, before. I wanted to send you a message to try and help if I could because I was worried that you were taking the whole situation really hard. Just keep your head up and keep going, Liza! More people will purchase Girl Soldier just give it time! The book is NOT a bust and you are NOT a failure! As to the question you asked of whether it was worth it for women to be liberated, I think the answer is complicated. I think the answer is yes and no. Yes, because women gained equal pay, were no longer limited to certain fields and sexist double standards and rigid gender roles were exposed to the light of day. However, at the same time women were pulled away from what comes naturally to them being mothers and homemakers, they started to feel not being independent was bad and they started to think maybe a career was the magic MacGuffin to feeling happy. I think the answer to this seemingly impossible riddle is to acknowledge something that is taboo: the men and women can be equal AND different!
Thank you for this Liza! This is just the sort of introduction I always wish authors would provide: part teaser, part backstory. As you must have noticed by now, I'm well capable of digging into a poem on my own, but there's always that little itch of curiosity about what the author was thinking when those lines were written. At least for me there is, since I'm not a pure textualist. (Pure textual criticism reminds me of pure materialistic atheism: the words are there on the page, but they don't seem to believe that an Author actually exists or is relevant to the reading.) I've always rather wished I could have coffee with Keats (of course I subscribed to that substack) or run into Eliot at the pub for a good talk. This is a bit of that.
You did such a wonderful job on Girl Soldier, Liza! These poems sound absolutely fascinating! So many topics that well-worth exploring and some very timely commentary on antisemitism in America today and the question of whether it was worth women be liberated? Girl Soldier may have only sold 23 copies so far but don't fret! Remember your just getting started and there is still plenty of time for 100 copies to be sold. I wanted to apologize that I sent you all those messages yesterday as I mentioned on LinkedIn. I wanted to reach out to you where I saw a recent Substack note where you seemed angry and upset that people keep spamming you with all these messages telling you to go Indie, you did and only 23 copies were sold. So, you had to just keep querying. I was really concerned because I can't recall a time where you seemed so frustrated and upset in a note or in general, before. I wanted to send you a message to try and help if I could because I was worried that you were taking the whole situation really hard. Just keep your head up and keep going, Liza! More people will purchase Girl Soldier just give it time! The book is NOT a bust and you are NOT a failure! As to the question you asked of whether it was worth it for women to be liberated, I think the answer is complicated. I think the answer is yes and no. Yes, because women gained equal pay, were no longer limited to certain fields and sexist double standards and rigid gender roles were exposed to the light of day. However, at the same time women were pulled away from what comes naturally to them being mothers and homemakers, they started to feel not being independent was bad and they started to think maybe a career was the magic MacGuffin to feeling happy. I think the answer to this seemingly impossible riddle is to acknowledge something that is taboo: the men and women can be equal AND different!