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    On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:57:41 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

    Will-Dockery wrote:

    George J. Dance wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 11:35:08 AM UTC-4, Frosty <blackpo>
    wrote:


    https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-1976-2019-Will-Dockery/dp/0994860013 >>>> Selected Poems 1976-2019 Paperback " October 23, 2019
    by Will Dockery (Author), George J. Dance (Editor)



    It looks like the chump book beat the chimp book into print, and the
    chimp is not happy about it at all.


    Having read the above title over the years



    One has to wonder: Just how many years has the chimp been reading the
    above title (Selected Poems 1976-2019)? I could have sworn that Will
    came up with those particular dates only in 2019, but if the chimp says
    he's been reading them for years, then it must be true, right?


    (the supposed poems having been posted over and over for years on
    Google's AAPC group) there is no need to shell out money to own what you >>>> can already read for free.

    Now it is said that the 'collection' is a poetic remembrance from the
    years 1976-2019.



    It is? That must be in a review I missed, perhaps one from "Richard's
    poetry group." We may get lucky and have the chimp post that for us,
    too.


    In fact it's a glossed over version as witnessed by reading his
    auto-biography lingering on Dance the Editor's blog.

    Nothing you read tells of the courtship and eventual marriage to a
    pregnant young woman, nothing is mentioned of his acid trips, inviting >>>> her to 'trip' along, nothing mentioned of a girlfriend in one room with >>>> wife in another, making his way from bed to bed. Nothing tells of the
    evictions, the lack of work, the drugs and booze until the young wife
    fled, two children in tow.

    He writes of the search for his beloved Lady K.(who ran away)when in
    fact his search was short lived...hooking up when he could with others >>>> to warm his chair where he slept nights in a lumber mill.

    He says little about living with his brother, living off the brother's >>>> disability checks, promoting god awful songs he cannot sing, a steady
    job he doesn't seek.



    True, the book contains none of the chimp's poems about Will Dockery;
    and none of NastyGene's poems about Will; and not even any poems by PJ
    Ross, or anyone else, about Will either. We included only poems by Will. >>>
    That's a big void in the aapc literary output still to be chronicled. I
    realize that the chimp is too busy, with his own 3-years-in the making
    masterpiece to work on; but there's always the editor he tried to talk
    Will into hiring for this book. That guy must have plenty of free time.

    One can envision it now: "FAT," a companion volume to "FLOAT" - right
    down to the similar artwork, but (of course) with the fetuses on the
    cover having much bigger tummies.


    The paperback is simply an ego stroke, one the author attempts on a
    daily basis.

    I could go on but will only add, save the money, get yourself a nice
    coffee and roll, it will be much more satisfying in the long run.



    And don't forget to save your pennies for FLOAT (and possibly FAT),
    coming in 2020 - or not.


    The 'poems' nothing more than scattered thoughts of a scattered life.

    Frosty



    Well put, thanks again, George.



    I love the way your crapbook is positioned in front of a copy of Vanity
    Fair.



    Is that supposed to be a subliminal admission that it's a Vanity press p.o.s.?


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659806871#659806871

    The Vanity Fair cover with Carrie Fisher on it is from 2017. Why does he
    have that magazine? Not only that, the book is being held up by a
    bottle of hydrogen peroxide 3%. Classy touch. Is that Donkey's drink
    of choice now if he can't get free beer? Are the pink polka dot things
    Will's underwear?

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  • From W.Dockery@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jun 15 13:14:39 2025
    Subject: REVIEW: Selected Poems 1976 by Will Dockery (Author), George J. Dance (Edit
    or)

    On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:55:31 +0000, NancyGene wrote:

    Will-Dockery wrote:
    George J. Dance wrote:
    Frosty <blackpo> wrote:

    https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-1976-2019-Will-Dockery/dp/0994860013

    Selected Poems 1976-2019 Paperback " October 23, 2019
    by Will Dockery (Author), George J. Dance (Editor)

    It looks like the chump book beat the chimp book into print, and the
    chimp is not happy about it at all.

    Now it is said that the 'collection' is a poetic remembrance from the >>>>> years 1976-2019.

    It is? That must be in a review I missed, perhaps one from "Richard's
    poetry group." We may get lucky and have the chimp post that for us,
    too.

    True, the book contains none of the chimp's poems about Will Dockery;
    and none of NastyGene's poems about Will; and not even any poems by PJ >>>> Ross, or anyone else, about Will either. We included only poems by Will. >>>>
    That's a big void in the aapc literary output still to be chronicled. I >>>> realize that the chimp is too busy, with his own 3-years-in the making >>>> masterpiece to work on; but there's always the editor he tried to talk >>>> Will into hiring for this book. That guy must have plenty of free time. >>>>
    One can envision it now: "FAT," a companion volume to "FLOAT" - right
    down to the similar artwork, but (of course) with the fetuses on the
    cover having much bigger tummies.

    And don't forget to save your pennies for FLOAT (and possibly FAT),
    coming in 2020 - or not.

    Well put, thanks again, George.

    The Vanity Fair cover with Carrie Fisher on it is from 2017. Why does he
    have that magazine?

    The photo was sent to me by someone who ordered my book.

    Carrie Fisher is beloved in the Science Fiction community for her work
    in Star Wars, so that could be the connection.


    Not only that, the book is being held up by a
    bottle of hydrogen peroxide 3%. Classy touch. Is that xxxxxxxxxx drink
    of choice now if he can't get free beer? Are the pink polka dot things Will's underwear?

    You're just being silly so I'll laugh with you.

    😏

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