Having been away from my mailbox for several days, I returned to find a most pleasant compilation of contributor's copies: Star*Line 29.1 ("De Profundis") and Mythic Delirium #14 ("Wintertime Loves"), as well as the current issue of Star*Line and an entirely unexpected directory of members for the SFPA, which leads me to believe that I am not as participant in the association's inner workings as perhaps I should be. Which reminds me that I should vote for the 2006 Rhysling Award before time runs out. There's a ballot here somewhere . . .
Enough about me. Other people's poems. From the latest Mythic Delirium, I found myself particularly taken with Catherynne M. Valente's "The Descent of the Corn-Queen of the Midwest," C.S. MacCath's "Stephanos," Anna Tambour's "Trapped Words," Ann K. Schwader's "Termination Shock, Voyager," and JoSelle Vanderhooft's "The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother." From Star*Line 29.1, I might direct your attention toward Donna Burgess' "Stranger Things," Marcie Lynn Tentchoff's "Burning Bright," Catherynne M. Valente's "The Cook's Wife," Melissa Marr's "Sirocco in His Eyes," Danny Adams' "The Grand Design," Jennifer Crow's "when we sent our poems into space," and Mikal Trimm's "Urban Renewal."
You'll have to purchase copies, of course, if you want to know what on earth I'm rattling on about. (I have no poems in Star*Line 29.2, but that shouldn't deter you from picking up a copy.) Or, hell, you could subscribe—with all due respect to the SFPA, there isn't an issue of Mythic Delirium I wouldn't recommend. Come on. You know you need a little myth and madness in your life. Well, all right, maybe not in your actual life. But to read? The health benefits are incalculable.
I had intended also to talk about the films I've seen in the last week and a half, as I have liked them all: Everything Is Illuminated (2005), The Stunt Man (1980), and, in theaters, The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). Unfortunately, I need to sleep first. I have to get up between six and seven o'clock tomorrow so I can properly see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hans_the_bold receive his PhD. There will be film discussion later. Lack of sleep comes first. The things we do for friendship . . .
Enough about me. Other people's poems. From the latest Mythic Delirium, I found myself particularly taken with Catherynne M. Valente's "The Descent of the Corn-Queen of the Midwest," C.S. MacCath's "Stephanos," Anna Tambour's "Trapped Words," Ann K. Schwader's "Termination Shock, Voyager," and JoSelle Vanderhooft's "The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother." From Star*Line 29.1, I might direct your attention toward Donna Burgess' "Stranger Things," Marcie Lynn Tentchoff's "Burning Bright," Catherynne M. Valente's "The Cook's Wife," Melissa Marr's "Sirocco in His Eyes," Danny Adams' "The Grand Design," Jennifer Crow's "when we sent our poems into space," and Mikal Trimm's "Urban Renewal."
You'll have to purchase copies, of course, if you want to know what on earth I'm rattling on about. (I have no poems in Star*Line 29.2, but that shouldn't deter you from picking up a copy.) Or, hell, you could subscribe—with all due respect to the SFPA, there isn't an issue of Mythic Delirium I wouldn't recommend. Come on. You know you need a little myth and madness in your life. Well, all right, maybe not in your actual life. But to read? The health benefits are incalculable.
I had intended also to talk about the films I've seen in the last week and a half, as I have liked them all: Everything Is Illuminated (2005), The Stunt Man (1980), and, in theaters, The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). Unfortunately, I need to sleep first. I have to get up between six and seven o'clock tomorrow so I can properly see
hans_the_bold receive his PhD. There will be film discussion later. Lack of sleep comes first. The things we do for friendship . . .
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