You blasphemed the aspidistra and something awful has come down that chimney

[sovay]

My poem "Berakhah" (for Peter Burson) has been accepted by 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.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the acceptance!

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.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Cheers and groans go up where appropriate. The mountain of work ahead of me has shrunk to a hill, 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.

I do hope you feel better soon.

[gwynnega]

Congrats on the acceptance! Hope the crud clears soon.

I studied poetry with Pinsky as an undergrad at UCLA, many years ago...

[eredien]

Erzebet is running Jabberwocky now? I didn't know! Great!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

ERK! I am still waiting. God, I remember the days of slush piles. Sometimes I get nostalgic for running a small press. Then I remember the slush piles.

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.

[coraline]

i have no point here other to say that subject lines with "busman's honeymoon" references make me squee out loud.

oh and also that mamishka is in my livingroom right now :)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Yay for the poem! Boo for the con crud. Hope it clears up soon.

And your subject line makes me very, very happy.

[seajules]

Congratulations on the poem! And I hope you recover soon.

Oh, "Apsara" is beautiful. Wow.