{"id":36779,"date":"2019-11-23T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=36779"},"modified":"2020-01-04T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T15:10:42","slug":"do-brits-love-obituaries-or-poetry-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/11\/do-brits-love-obituaries-or-poetry-or-what.html","title":{"rendered":"Do Brits Love Obituaries or Poetry\u2014or What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hard to believe, but there it is, Your Obituary Is Waiting, <\/em>listed at #10 this morning in Amazon UK’s top-seller ranking of obituary books.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Amazon UK (Nov. 23, 2019)<\/em>.
The complete Special Edition is available in the U.K.<\/a> and in the U.S. <\/a> <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Which goes to show that Amazon’s rankings are, among other things, ridiculous. My “deformed sonnets” are poems not obituaries. But if British readers don’t complain, why should I? The book is also listed at #272 in its “American poetry” ranking. Which might indicate that Amazon UK hasn’t gone totally nuts\u2014except that when I consider the lack of sales of even one copy of the book in either category both lists make as much sense as Donald Trump. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From the American poet Charles Plymell:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard to believe, but there it is, Your Obituary Is Waiting, listed at #10 this morning in Amazon UK’s top-seller ranking of obituary books. Which goes to show that Amazon’s rankings are, among other things, ridiculous. My “deformed sonnets” are poems not obituaries. But if British readers don’t complain, why should I? The book is also listed at #272 in its “American poetry” ranking. Which might indicate that Amazon UK hasn’t gone totally nuts\u2014except that when I consider the lack of sales of even one copy of the book in either category both lists make as much sense as Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"category-uncategorized","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Jan_Herman_Your_Obituary_Cover_V1-220x352.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9zd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37635,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions\/37635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}