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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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

sen_no_ongaku has an awesome username, and a choral setting of common e-mail spam sounds very, very, cool.

[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.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear about the various good things.

I'm absurdly pleased, myself, because my preconcert piece did make the paper today, rather than showing up the day before the concert. Perhaps this will make up for not being able to get flyers up round town until today/tommorrow cos my friend the turkey took weeks to send them me...

None of you people vanish any time soon, okay?

I'm sure we'll all try our best not to. Do you likewise, please?