{"id":48341,"date":"2021-11-04T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=48341"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:39:22","slug":"paul-valery-reminds-us-a-poem-is-never-finished-only-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/11\/paul-valery-reminds-us-a-poem-is-never-finished-only-abandoned.html","title":{"rendered":"Paul Val\u00e9ry Reminds Us <\/font><\/em>
‘A Poem Is Never Finished, Only Abandoned’<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been writing “deformed sonnets” since 2015 or so. They’ve been published in chapbooks by Cold Turkey Press<\/a> in France and by Moloko Print<\/a> and Verlag Engstler<\/a> in Germany; by Fabrikzeitung<\/a> in Switzerland and by IT: International Times, the Magazine of Resistance<\/a> in the United Kingdom; and on this blog and elsewhere. “A poem is never finished, only abandoned,” Paul Val\u00e9ry once said. Mine have never been finished either. So . . . an updated, revised, redesigned, and expanded collection in hardcover<\/a> is now out, with a new title: All That Would Ever After Not Be Said<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Phantom Outlaw Editions (2021)<\/a><\/em>
Available in hardcover.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Moloko Print <\/a><\/em>
(published 2020)<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Verlag Engstler <\/a><\/em>
(published 2017)<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Above: Jay Jeff Jones’s review of “Your Obituary Is Waiting.”.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Above: Malcolm Ritchie’s review of an earlier version of “All That Would Ever After Not Be Said.”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Click to listen to several of the sonnets.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Click to listen to several of the sonnets.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mine have never been finished either. And so . . . an updated, revised, redesigned, and expanded collection in both hardcover and paperback editions is out now, with a new title: “All That Would Ever After Not Be Said.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48659,"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":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ALL-THAT-WOULD-thrumbnail-title-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-czH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48341","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=48341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67389,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48341\/revisions\/67389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}