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My poem "Postscripts from the Red Sea" is now online at Goblin Fruit, along with many other fantastic poems. (I am partial toward kythiaranos' "Mermaid Syndrome," but by now it should be obvious I'm biased.) Very few of my narrators are me, but along with "Ogygia," this one stands as a deliberate attempt at fitting to mythology something I felt in the spring of 2006. I'm not sure the results it yielded were the same I had intended, but I'm still fond of them.

Also now available is Say . . . what's the combination?, whose table of contents promises awesomeness. I am pleased to count "Nutmeg and Limestone" among them. It's a story for which I had to do ridiculous amounts of geographical research and I still worry I got the landscape wrong. Clearly I need to travel more. Somebody give me a budget.

I had a terrific evening which I am too tired to mythologize properly here. That's what later is for.

Comments

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

"Postscripts from the Red Sea"

That's beautiful, and wonderfully sexy. You write the most sexually attractive poetry in the world to-day, and certainly worthy of a place on a rather nice looking site that alludes to "Goblin Market".

There's a sadness to the poem, but with more emphasis on continuation than on ending--the bit about carrying a child is interesting. There's also an interesting intangibleness about the intimacy described, with the references to shadows and mirrors. Something made keener by being less defined or explicitly acknowledged, maybe. It's really nice, anyway.

I am partial toward kythiaranos' "Mermaid Syndrome,"

It is nice. It kind of reminds me of The Last Unicorn.

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You write the most sexually attractive poetry in the world to-day

I want to put that on the back of my next collection.

Something made keener by being less defined or explicitly acknowledged, maybe. It's really nice, anyway.

Thank you!

It kind of reminds me of The Last Unicorn.

Actually, yes. You should tell her.

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

I want to put that on the back of my next collection.

That would be great. If you need a more manageable quote; Sonya Taaffe writes the most sexually attractive poetry in the world to-day.

You should tell her.

Okay.

Not that I'm especially qualified, but

[ex-blue-verv849.livejournal.com]

I dub "Postscripts from the Red Sea" Theda-Approved.
*big old library stamp sound*

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I dub "Postscripts from the Red Sea" Theda-Approved.

Thank you!

*big old library stamp sound*

Extra awesome.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

I'm reading through the rest of the issue as well, now. Quite taken with the one you rec'd, as well as your own.

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Lovely.

Thank you!