From: "toyin adepoju"
Dear Mark,
Thank you very much for the passionately charged and careful statement of your methods and aims.I will take time to study and digest the ideational carpet,losded with potent concepts,representee by your wrting,even in youir letters.
Your achivement with the website is remakble.I pray I can do something similar one day.
I would like ,one day,to investigate why you have not able to publish your powerful work.I wonder,though,if soame aspects ontzhat work might have made iot difficult bfor a publisher to publish it.Your style of expression is very powerfu,demonstraing ppowerful and wiode ranging learning,but it often not Standsrd English,bioth on account of your own personal idiosncracies of expression,like your penchant for capitalisation,which gives your wrting a distinctive favour buit which one will need to accklinmatise oneself to in order to apprecaite it as the mark of a creative freedom with the mutable ymbolic medium that is languiage.
Your sentnces are very powerful,loaded as they are with references to a marked cukltural breadth,and ozzing the vitaklity of your overflowing creative energy,but the structure needs to be brought into closr relationhip to standrd English for most peopéle to understand.
From my experince of the kind of wrting to whujch your work relates most c,osely in popular cuktzre,your work is loaded with a level of learbnndedness that is not present in moast of what I have seen so far and the refrences to ideas from so many cultures,though central to the uniwue power of your achiovement,migght be lost on many people.A clearer English text would help with that.
Also,some of the images reresent people,at times,children, being slain with knife or sword,being eaten by crocodiles,a girl being penetrated by a dog.Those inmages ould have disturbed the publishers.I would suggest that you modify your images to remove such scenes.The final decsion is yours.
Having said all that,I suggest you and I,artist and admirer,develop a stratetgy for approaching publishers.The work will always be in your name.The best I could be is the editor.I suggest we approach publishers again,but this time,I clarify the grammatical accuracy of any text that bgoes to publighsers.
I suggest we approach Prinmceton Univerrsty Press. They have a sophiticated Mind,Body,Spirit section that might make them apprecauite your work.
Plaese forgive anything you might not like in my comments,particularly since yiu are onkly jsut knowing me and only in cyberspace.Do let me know your respones to my observations and suiggestions.
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