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And while we're at it, baby
My poem "In Sight of the Seasons" (Not One of Us #34) has been favorably mentioned by The Fix, along with two poems from Goblin Fruit. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kythiaranos, alankria, tithenai, mer_moon: go, all of you.
Also look to a future issue of Not One of Us for "The Second Ghost," written forkijjohnson.
And my collection Singing Innocence and Experience has been reviewed by Joe Bernstein. It seems to have been a mixed match with the reviewer's tastes and I am not sure the following statement was intended as a compliment—
I lack a word to describe Taaffe's prose; but perhaps if I say that it is to Patricia McKillip's what McKillip's is to the average spec-fic writer's, you'll get the idea.
—but I do take it as one.
I have the Pixies' "Alec Eiffel" stuck in my head. It has been there since last night. I do not own a copy of this song. Of such things are small corners of hell made.
Oh, Alexander, I see you beneath
The archways of aerodynamics
Oh, Alexander . . .
kythiaranos, alankria, tithenai, mer_moon: go, all of you.Also look to a future issue of Not One of Us for "The Second Ghost," written for
kijjohnson.And my collection Singing Innocence and Experience has been reviewed by Joe Bernstein. It seems to have been a mixed match with the reviewer's tastes and I am not sure the following statement was intended as a compliment—
I lack a word to describe Taaffe's prose; but perhaps if I say that it is to Patricia McKillip's what McKillip's is to the average spec-fic writer's, you'll get the idea.
—but I do take it as one.
I have the Pixies' "Alec Eiffel" stuck in my head. It has been there since last night. I do not own a copy of this song. Of such things are small corners of hell made.
Oh, Alexander, I see you beneath
The archways of aerodynamics
Oh, Alexander . . .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP0mnTHsNg4
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Angel.
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I had an ugly Elvis Costello earworm incident earlier this year. It proved invaluable.
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Second: You know? I just picked Singing Innocence and Experience up again and finished reading it -- and I did actually think of McKillip, a couple times, when I was losing myself in your wonderful prose. You can be sure I *do* mean that as a compliment, too. (I mean, even without the word 'wonderful' there all indicative.)
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She is one of my very early influences: the Riddle-Master Trilogy is one I keep coming back to.
Thank you!
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Because the complete statement is: "I learnt last fall, studying colour, that "indigo" and "violet" at the blue end of the spectrum are not funny names for "purple"; rather, purple is a colour not in the spectrum at all, the true mixture of red and blue. So prose transmutingly beyond purple is not ultraviolet, and I lack a word to
describe Taaffe's prose . . ." Which I still take as a compliment.
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Because the complete statement is: "I learnt last fall, studying colour, that "indigo" and "violet" at the blue end of the spectrum are not funny names for "purple"; rather, purple is a colour not in the spectrum at all, the true mixture of red and blue. So prose transmutingly beyond purple is not ultraviolet, and I lack a word to
describe Taaffe's prose . . ." Which I still take as a compliment.
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Congratulations!
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And "In Sight of the Seasons" is so beautiful. I am happy at the thought of being on the same planet with poetry like that.
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You're welcome. Congratulations!
I am happy at the thought of being on the same planet with poetry like that.
That is the best compliment ever.
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And sorry about the Bernstein review, but I admire your way of looking at it.
I hope the earworm goes away soon.
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Thank you!
I hope the earworm goes away soon.
Eh. So far, no luck. I'll survive.
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Probably in the spring, since Not One of Us produces two issues (and one mini-anthology) a year and the last came out in October, but I will certainly let you know when it's out! It's formally dedicated to you.
(I'm so honored!)
You're welcome! And thank you!
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It's the poem I wrote in your livejournal—you were the first person to see it!
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