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I'll wake up in a new life down by the seaside
My poem "Last Minute" is now online at Strange Horizons.
It's the one I wrote in collaboration with my dreaming self—specifically, the dream of reading it in translation in a nonexistent used book store. Awake, I very carefully wrote out a sort of critical apparatus of the text to work from, since the lines I had brought out of the dream totaled just slightly more than half of the poem and the rest I had either to reconstruct from half-remembered images and rhythms or supply my conscious self, and then with unnecessarily thematic irony I lost the entire record a few days later in a computer glitch. Influences detectable on waking included Thorold Dickinson's The Queen of Spades (1949) and Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950), but one way or another the rest was me. I had brought text out of dreams before, but never co-written with them. The results seem to have found an underworld-ish home.
Happy National Poetry Month!
It's the one I wrote in collaboration with my dreaming self—specifically, the dream of reading it in translation in a nonexistent used book store. Awake, I very carefully wrote out a sort of critical apparatus of the text to work from, since the lines I had brought out of the dream totaled just slightly more than half of the poem and the rest I had either to reconstruct from half-remembered images and rhythms or supply my conscious self, and then with unnecessarily thematic irony I lost the entire record a few days later in a computer glitch. Influences detectable on waking included Thorold Dickinson's The Queen of Spades (1949) and Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950), but one way or another the rest was me. I had brought text out of dreams before, but never co-written with them. The results seem to have found an underworld-ish home.
Happy National Poetry Month!
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Thank you.
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Thank you! I was so annoyed at waking up before I finished the collection it was in.
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It is an important thing to have on the calendar.
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Happy National Poetry Month!
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Thank you! I am very glad Strange Horizons is where it ended up. And on a gratifyingly immediate turnaround, too.
Happy National Poetry Month!
I never do anything for it, so why not!
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I was very glad to be able to!
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Nine
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Thank you.
I heard for years that people cannot read in dreams, and I had no idea why anyone believed that.
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Please feel free!