The Bluff-Masters Of Indian English Poetry Talk I, Dream I (The Seminar Paper) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Abstract: Little magazines and their little-little editors Little men’s little magazines Poetasters, rhymers, commoners and non-poets as poets and poetesses Poets and poetesses as bluff-masters and mistresses Self-praise is no praise, as goes the adage Poetry not in mutual admiration The small editor a poet and the fellow reviewers and subscribers admiring, even university readers and the meritless poetry the topic discussion and the teacher applying in the reader-responses theory

The bluff-masters of Indian English poetry talk I, think I about,
Those who had not to be poets and poetesses are,
All those journal-editors,
The little-little men of little-little things,
Of trivia and academia.

A small poet or a poetess who fails as a poet
Makes a breakthrough after editing a journal
And that very small poet turns into a poet of India fame overnight,
Can it be,
Is poetry false praise and evaluation?

My seminar and the abstract of it tell about
The fall in standard and morality,
Does their morality allow them
To ask subscribers to talk about their poetry?
Perhaps they had never been endowed with this sense
Of morality and ethics any before.

The small-small editors of today say they
That they are poets and poetesses
Of not the state-level, but India-level stature
And this is what I contradict it,
Complain against and cross over.

To be frank enough, they are the mafia men,
The intellectual mafia,
Taking money and publishing papers
And this too is essential as for editorial policy
And financial management,
But to damage quality in this way is not at all acceptable.

I shall praise you and you will praise me,
How can it be, one is the promoter of another
And it can be, but never all the times
As it will ruin all?
Sorry, sorry fo