It’s Rod and he’s not forgotten. Much better poets have been though. Do yourself a favor and learn about Ken Patchen. That guys influence on modern American poetry is waaaay under credited. He also wrote some good poetry.

Thank you for answering all my questions.

Probably only print a few hundred, if that. Most poetry printed today is from small presses anyway. If a major publisher prints poetry they're usually old classics in the public domain or really well-known poets like Sylvia Plath or the Beats, etc.

Series but yeah

Do they charge a lot to make their money back or only print a few hundred copies ?

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No, that's the number for major publishers

Are they mostly self published ?

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

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He was very popular when I was selling books in the 70s.

I can’t imagine spending any money on poetry. It amazes me someone even made a living at it.

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

She was probably more well known for her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Maya Angelou comes to mind but there’s truth to this comment

Funny you should mention rechargeable batteries. A while back, 14 years or so ago, I was dabbling with electronics and wanted to swap my xbox360 controller and front panel led's from Green to something else, like purple. I ordered a bunch of purples, blues, reds, etc. I wire up the purples to the controller. Nothing. And these were so small, if the soldering iron stayed on it for more than 2 seconds it literally would disappear in a puff of smoke.

Apparently I'm telling this out of order but it helps. I did the red ring on the 360 front panel with the purples fine, so I know theyre good. I replace the purples with blues and it lights right up. I put purple back, no dice. I'm fiddling around and I forget how but I plug the charging wire into the controller direct and I get flashbanged by purple lights. Similar to your story I found out the rechargables had less voltage. So the red ring front panel is hardwired and getting full juice, but wireless, no dice. Pop in the usb charger and yeah it would light up. Also confirmed regular AA's would work, but I already had all these battery packs so I wanted to stay with the lower voltage.

So I opted for a blue/red/blue/red X pattern and left the purples for the front panel. Cool side effect was that as the batteries died the blue led's would get dimmer and dimmer until you just had 2 bright red led's and then the controller would just die. I think this may be a reason they favor red for emergency systems as it seems to require less power.

They were extremely expensive when they first became available. The blue LED power indicator in a preamp added $200.00 to the cost (including markup) according to the design engineer.

People buy poetry?

I remember when red LEDs first became affordable and widespread, we used them on our boat to read charts in the dark without ruining night vision. But the gap between those first cheap red ones and LED screens or bright white ones for headlamps and flashlights seemed like it took forever.

I remember the late 90s, when electronics started being plastered in blue LEDs, for a "futuristic" look. Usually combined with silver coloured plastic.

Interesting.. so what you’re saying is that people back then could fall asleep immediately, even right after using their iPhones?

His spoken word would make me weap... "If You Go Away".....

I think I would of just used a resistor in parallel with the led

We only remember artists who were ahead of their time.

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