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You blasphemed the aspidistra and something awful has come down that chimney
My poem "Berakhah" (for Peter Burson) has been accepted by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
erzebet for Jabberwocky. Meanwhile, I have the sempiternal con crud. One of these days, I promise: a post with content. Till then, I suggest you read seajules's "The sky is the floor of an ocean" or shweta_narayan's "Apsara" or Robert Pinsky's "Last Robot Song," all of which are beautiful, with truth in them, and much easier on the ear than me sneezing.
erzebet for Jabberwocky. Meanwhile, I have the sempiternal con crud. One of these days, I promise: a post with content. Till then, I suggest you read seajules's "The sky is the floor of an ocean" or shweta_narayan's "Apsara" or Robert Pinsky's "Last Robot Song," all of which are beautiful, with truth in them, and much easier on the ear than me sneezing.
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And I'm very sorry to hear about the con crud.
Should I ask who blasphemed the aspidistra?
And thank you, also, for linking the poems, which are beautiful. Especially "Apsara," which comes ironically timed for me, I suppose, as I've just finished the first session of a class on Ireland and India in the colonial and post-colonial context.
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Thank you!
Should I ask who blasphemed the aspidistra?
No, you should just read Dorothy L. Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon (1937). Of course, that necessitates you read Strong Poison (1930), Have His Carcase (1932), and Gaudy Night (1935), but no one I know ever hurt themselves doing so.
Especially "Apsara," which comes ironically timed for me, I suppose, as I've just finished the first session of a class on Ireland and India in the colonial and post-colonial context.
Very appropriate, yes.
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You're welcome!
No, you should just read Dorothy L. Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon (1937). Of course, that necessitates you read Strong Poison (1930), Have His Carcase (1932), and Gaudy Night (1935), but no one I know ever hurt themselves doing so.
Ah. I'm glad of that last.
I've read Gaudy Night, but not the others. Someday, when I have the time...
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I do hope you feel better soon.
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Thank you and appreciated.
and, if luck and energy levels hold, that hill may yet decrease again and clear my way for writing and submitting and doing all those things I meant to do this year, when the month wasn't near three quarters over.
Yay.
I do hope you feel better soon.
I hope your life is soon cleared—and not in any way that involves unemployment—of work.
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I studied poetry with Pinsky as an undergrad at UCLA, many years ago...
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Thanks!
I studied poetry with Pinsky as an undergrad at UCLA, many years ago...
Oh, cool. Did you like his work?
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She's still reading! Send her poems!
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http://anthologynewsandreviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/jabberwocky.html
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Those look like the same guidelines that appear on Erzebet's website, so I think you're good.
Sent out "Sea Horn," since people have been urging me; we'll see if that goes.
Best of luck!
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You and G are totally to blame.
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Congratulations on yours.
I am a huge fan of Pinsky's translations (his Inferno is by far my favorite of the--nine?-- translations I own), but I've heard him read a time or two, and his own stuff kind of left me cold.
Apropos of nothing, I just watched Maya Deren's short "Divine Horsemen" and (save a rewatch of Himself, Bill Cosby's standup movie that never, ever gets old) it is by far the best thing I've watched this month.
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I hadn't realized (or had missed) you ran a small press: neat. What and when?
Congratulations on yours.
Thank you. I wish you the same result!
(his Inferno is by far my favorite of the--nine?-- translations I own)
I'll have to check it out. I don't actually have a translation I like yet.
it is by far the best thing I've watched this month.
So noted. Awesome.
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Back in the days of the dinosaurs/when you were still in elementary school. :) Blackwraith Press existed as an active entity from 1991-1993. There are actually tax documents that prove this, though I've no idea why, I certainly never reported any income (snort). Biggest publication by far was River Huston (http://www.riverhuston.com/)'s first book, Jesus Never Lived Here, in 1992. Still in print, though through another distributor (and copies of the original now go for many, many shekels, to the point where I've actually considered selling one or two of my four inscribed copies in order to pay the rent one month).
I've thought idly about digging it out of mothballs again from time to time. During the final days, I was trying very, very hard to get my hands on four manuscripts, three of which still have never seen the light of day (the fourth was James Mason's scandalous memoir Siege, which I have since found out was not written by the James Mason I was thinking of, more's the pity). I still think the other three deserve to see the light of day, but don't want to start going after them again until I can afford to give them the treatment they deserve.
But, lordy, the slush pile. I saw some things no sane human was ever meant to read.
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Sayers did one: it's not the best, but the notes are good...
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oh and also that
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That is a perfectly valid reason to be anywhere.
oh and also that mamishka is in my livingroom right now
Tell her I owe her a poem for the kitsune!
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And your subject line makes me very, very happy.
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Thank you on both counts. They provide symmetry.
And your subject line makes me very, very happy.
I have a lot of respect for the aspidistra!
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Oh, "Apsara" is beautiful. Wow.
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Thank you! Much appreciated.
Wow.
She has also a poem in the latest Goblin Fruit: "The bears are working." She's really, really good.
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