Logged in volumes locked in drawers

[sovay]

For the Ides of March, I discovered that my poetry continues to go viral in certain quarters of Tumblr; I continue to be honored by this phenomenon and not to expect it at all. Also I have been compared to Rosanna Warren. On the strength of "Mud," I see how that happened.

Comments

[asakiyume]

That's wonderful--I love to see people enjoying your work and spreading it!

[sovay]

That's wonderful--I love to see people enjoying your work and spreading it!

I am not complaining at all! I don't know why it's so much easier for me to picture my work outliving me than total strangers discovering it in my lifetime. People with handles like "bisexual-disaster-energy" and "aeide-thea" and "abandoned-bog" are enjoying my work. I am patently reaching my target audience.

[asakiyume]

I especially love "abandoned bog"

[radiantfracture]

They are classics, you see, if new ones.

People with handles like "bisexual-disaster-energy" and "aeide-thea" and "abandoned-bog" are enjoying my work. I am patently reaching my target audience.

With almost uncanny accuracy really. I am in awe.

[sovay]

They are classics, you see, if new ones.

Thank you.

With almost uncanny accuracy really. I am in awe.

I mean, partly it's a self-selecting population, but I'm still amazed myself.

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

What a wonderful thing to have happen to one's poetry!

[sovay]

What a wonderful thing to have happen to one's poetry!

It makes me very happy!

[vass]

You got the ultimate accolade of a #HEY. FUCK OFF.

Very well-earned.

[sovay]

Very well-earned.

Thank you!

Your estimation of the phrase made me think of Leo Marks in Between Silk and Cyanide (1998), introducing the reader to what he calls "the ultimate SOE benediction": "Merde alors!"

[vass]

That looks like a fascinating book.

And yeah, it's the Tumblr poetry reader's equivalent of (or so I gather from Ursula Vernon's podcasts) the visual artist's professional accolade "I hate you. I want to kill you." (said in a tone of earnest admiration, and received with an unsarcastic "Oh, thank you, that's so sweet of you!")

[sovay]

That looks like a fascinating book.

I recommend it highly. I wrote about it a little in context of the film noir Cloudburst (1951), also written by Marks.

And yeah, it's the Tumblr poetry reader's equivalent of (or so I gather from Ursula Vernon's podcasts) the visual artist's professional accolade "I hate you. I want to kill you." (said in a tone of earnest admiration, and received with an unsarcastic "Oh, thank you, that's so sweet of you!")

I did notice from assorted tags that reaching my audience is rhetorically indistinguishable from wrecking them.

[minoanmiss]

Oooh!

[sovay]

Oooh!

It unironically made my day! (My day otherwise primarily involved capitalism, which is a lot less fun.)

[minoanmiss]

I am so glad your poetry is spreading through the world, making things better one soul at a time.

[selkie]

Muahahahaha. Your Nortonification proceeds apace.
(When I think of all the hand-shared glories of the internet, I shall think warmly of FUCK OFF.)

[sovay]

Your Nortonification proceeds apace.

Well, I hope it happens while I can appreciate it. I bet there are royalties involved.

(When I think of all the hand-shared glories of the internet, I shall think warmly of FUCK OFF.)

(Thank you.)

[konstantya]

Yooo, that's awesome! And some of those tags (looking at you, "HEY. FUCK OFF" and "what the FUCK"!) are top-tier as far as "this thing elicited emotions in me" goes. ;)

[sovay]

Yooo, that's awesome! And some of those tags (looking at you, "HEY. FUCK OFF" and "what the FUCK"!) are top-tier as far as "this thing elicited emotions in me" goes.

Thank you!

[spatch]

They found you, you resonated with them, they brought on the hashtags. That's serendipity is what it is.

[sovay]

They found you, you resonated with them, they brought on the hashtags. That's serendipity is what it is.

Mow. I am glad to resonate with them.