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The only way I could consider doing an ebook for her is if you or Marc act as intermediaries for me. I’m
very sorry Carol has cancer also.
I’ve attached an email I send to people who have cancer, advising them how to treat it using apricot
kernels. Perhaps you could forward it to Carol and Bobbi.
Best,
Jeff
Jeff,
9 December 2011
Thanks. I’ll pass on your file to Bobbi and Carol. Carol cannot read due to her brain cancer, but her
assistant and friend, Douglas, can read it for her.
Bobbi is on the road for cancer treatment, but I heard from her, and she’d like to bring out the first book
as an ebook with Argotist. I talked to Marc Vincenz, and he said that he and I can handle the details with
her. Sound good? Let me know if there’s anything we need to do first and when. Thanks so much, Jeff.
Best,
Ann
Ann initially accused me of calling Bobbi “psychotic” in the Otherstream Facebook group, after I had removed her
from The Argotist Online Facebook group for ignoring my requests not to post things there that were not related to
poetry. Here is how I announced to the other group members that I had removed her from it:
I’ve had to remove Ann Bogle from the Argotist FB group, as she was relentless in her determination to
carry on starting threads that were not poetry related, and also “hijacking” other threads by posting
comments not related to the threads’ topic matter. I explained to her that the Argotist group was solely
for discussion of poetry but she ignored me, and continued unrelentingly. I, therefore, had no choice but
to remove her from the group.
I assume Ann was so outraged at this, that she felt the need to vent her anger in the Otherstream Facebook group,
and in doing so try to damage my character by representing falsely the Bobbi Lurie situation, as explained above.
For Ann to have done this is quite disturbing. She must have known the potential damage it could have caused to my
character. It is especially disquieting considering the reason for it was fairly trivial: merely my removing her from a
Facebook group.
Here is the Otherstream Facebook group exchange I had with Ann where she says I called Bobbi “psychotic”. As can
be seen her posts are extremely incoherent and rambling, whether this is intentional on her part, I don’t know:
Ann Bogle:
You had represented (though I might have wanted an editor in you besides) my e-chapbooks, so, for
that career-related investment I had made with you, I failed to defend Bobbi Lurie more fully (by
disassociating from you? retracting my e-books?) when you described her as psychotic in an email. The
links to my e-books are probably still working. Rachel Lisi designed the cover of one of them, and
Daniel Harris gave ten illustrations. All I wanted to say, and you are avoiding the subject rather stupidly,
is, and I said it in more than one place and way, your poetics collection of essay, responses, etc. and fight
with Seth Abramson about it, did not name names in a way that might have been useful in considering
or applying your arguments. Your cry that it went by not celebrated caused me to plunge in as a reader
preparing to review your email correspondence, Other Voices, with Jake Berry. Jake, in turn, took a dip,
a little swim, in my prosetics, and responded kindly. I am in your coral as a writer, and you are revoking
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