Now all the gods are gone

[sovay]

Nonetheless, the mail this afternoon brought my contributor's copy of (Going Going) GONE, the latest not-Not One of Us publication in which my poems "The Golem in Flight" and "The Road to Volodny (Partisan Song)" appear alongside seajules' "Kumiho," Patricia Russo's "Claude's Ghost Story," Steven J. Dines' "In the Cage with Ghosts," and other disappearances. Check it out. It's full of fading. sen_no_ongaku meanwhile has sent me three CDs of his music, including a choral setting of common e-mail spam: this is so awesome, I may have difficulty describing it. And Viking Zen just e-mailed me Charles Simic's "Eyes Fastened with Pins," which I love; it reminds me of Namtar. ana bīti ša ēribušu lā asû, ana hārrani ša alaktaša lā tayyarat . . . None of you people vanish any time soon, okay?

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[timesygn.livejournal.com]

" ... and 'The Road to Volodny (Partisan Song)' appear alongside ..."

The title of this one intrigues me. I became fascinated with partisans when my adolescent investigations of World War II turned up a photo of a young woman posing with her machine-gun in the midst of a jubiliant East European crowd on the eve of the peace. She had the most captivating gypsy-dark eyes, and the photo caption read in part: "... her fate is unknown." How many fell in the forests and in the mountains? Not my ancestors, but honored all the same. Thank you for remembering them.

[sovay]

How many fell in the forests and in the mountains? Not my ancestors, but honored all the same. Thank you for remembering them.

Thank you. I feel obligated to point out it is a partisan song from another place (one which belongs to a short story that has been stalled on me for a year, but I'm working on it), but I hope you will enjoy it, if it ever crosses your path. And I recommend both Defiance, which I saw tonight, and A Verse from Babylon, which I will no doubt soon re-read. I'm biased toward the latter, but I read it all the way from drafts to published novel; I have a poem at its back. strange_selkie is its author and she needs to write more.

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

I shall seek out VERSE (and DEFIANCE, now that it's been recommended). My interest in matters Hebrew parallels (for obvious reasons) a fascination with World War II (that point at which history turned itself inside out; haunting for step-children of the Shoah and Battle of Britain alike).

Finally: I wrote a song called "Partisan" back in the Nineties. Should we ever meet in person (and I hope we do), I'll dig up a guitar and perform it for you ...