The ghost poems have found a home.
I am very pleased to announce that my collection Ghost Signs has just been accepted by Aqueduct Press for their Conversation Pieces series. There are thirty-six poems in the cycle, two previously unpublished; the oldest dates from the fall of 2006 and the most recent was written the night before my wedding in December. The second half of the collection is new prose: "The Boatman's Cure," a previously unpublished novelette.
I have difficulty articulating the importance of this cycle of poems to me. Primarily it includes some of the best poems I have written to date. It is also tied very closely to the process by which I began to think of myself, slowly and not always securely, as alive, with the right to stay that way, rather than dead in all the ways that mattered except the physical, which I should just get over with already. I don't mean that I've stopped writing about the dead: I always expect to. I don't mean that my mood's always elevated these days, either. But the ghost poems are something different. The story is formally unrelated, but it's in the same key. I am incredibly, incredibly happy that all of them are going to see print together.
Current estimated publication date is February 2015. You will undoubtedly see further announcements from me before then. Tell people! I'm looking forward.
I am very pleased to announce that my collection Ghost Signs has just been accepted by Aqueduct Press for their Conversation Pieces series. There are thirty-six poems in the cycle, two previously unpublished; the oldest dates from the fall of 2006 and the most recent was written the night before my wedding in December. The second half of the collection is new prose: "The Boatman's Cure," a previously unpublished novelette.
I have difficulty articulating the importance of this cycle of poems to me. Primarily it includes some of the best poems I have written to date. It is also tied very closely to the process by which I began to think of myself, slowly and not always securely, as alive, with the right to stay that way, rather than dead in all the ways that mattered except the physical, which I should just get over with already. I don't mean that I've stopped writing about the dead: I always expect to. I don't mean that my mood's always elevated these days, either. But the ghost poems are something different. The story is formally unrelated, but it's in the same key. I am incredibly, incredibly happy that all of them are going to see print together.
Current estimated publication date is February 2015. You will undoubtedly see further announcements from me before then. Tell people! I'm looking forward.
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