And thank the gods I have five coins in my pocket

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To make up for the music I only dreamed, the mail this afternooon brought me several fine things, including a paperback of Michael Cisco's The Tyrant and a package of Kaori Yuki's Godchild—courtesy of teenybuffalo, who enclosed postcards of herons and heat lightning—and my contributor's copy of Jabberwocky #4. erzebet co-edited this issue and it is lovely, lovely. Check out the table of contents; I especially recommend Nicole Kornher-Stace's "Notes Toward a Comparative Mythology," Alex Dally MacFarlane's "Always Two," Jeannelle Ferreira's "Anniversaries," Becca de la Rosa's "The History of Iolo and Nye," Mike Allen's "The Parcae," and Erik Amundsen's "Barge on the Styx," but that's a fraction of the cornucopia. There is also my poem "Berakhah," written for and dedicated to my ungodchild Peter Burson. I still have a cold, but today is automatically better.

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[time-shark.livejournal.com]

I'd been wonderin' when those were gonna turn up! (Goes to check mailbox...)

ETA: I haZ!

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ETA: I haZ!

Huzzah!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

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Excellent!

Contributor's copies are something I always need more of.

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

Mr. Peter is worthy of poetry!

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Mr. Peter is worthy of poetry!

Indeed!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the last issue of Jabberwocky that I bought. When I can next buy things, this is on my list. (But first, the back issue of Sirenia with "The Salt House" in it.)

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When I can next buy things, this is on my list. (But first, the back issue of Sirenia with "The Salt House" in it.)

I hope you enjoy both!

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I'm glad it got there safe and sound! "Godchild" is remarkable for many things. I chiefly like it for its sense of English-nineteenth-century penny-dreadfuls as translated into Japanese modern-day sensibilities and then back into English, and for its bishonen evil doctor named Dr. Jizabel Disraeli. I'm interested to see how it will seem to you.

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Oh good, I'm glad it got there safe and sound!

Safe and sound and seemingly wrapped in butcher's paper, which feels appropriate to me. Thank you!

I'm interested to see how it will seem to you.

I will let you know!

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

That was a plain brown wrapper. "Godchild" doesn't have any explicit sex scenes that I can recall, but I realized that, hey, it contains manga art of scantily-clad women at one point, which could be construed as porn by an imaginative court. I had mental images of being arrested in the night for sending adult materials through the mails, and never being seen again except in a fetching orange jumpsuit. Hence, I pre-wrapped it...

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed! I hope my copy of Jabberwocky has crossed the sea when I'm home at the end of this month, so I can fondle and read it.

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I hope my copy of Jabberwocky has crossed the sea when I'm home at the end of this month, so I can fondle and read it.

(Can't erzebet give you a copy? She half-edited the book . . .)

I think a return from all trips should be marked by new things to read.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

erzebet's copies have not arrived yet either.

I think a return from all trips should be marked by new things to read.

Agreed. One of the pleasures of being a writer: books/zines appear in the post from time to time, with ego-boosting works of your own and interesting things by other writers who are sometimes friends.

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

I especially recommend Nicole Kornher-Stace's "Notes Toward a Comparative Mythology,"

Oh, I'm glad you liked! Was just Googling to see whether these were showing up in people's mailboxes yet and came across this, which is even better.

Have been meaning to friend you since Readercon, actually. Remiss of me. Shall remedy this forthwith.

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Was just Googling to see whether these were showing up in people's mailboxes yet and came across this, which is even better.

It's a good story!

Shall remedy this forthwith.

Yay!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*grunts* Poems are so hard.

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Poems are so hard.

You wrote a sestina. I've never written a sestina I could stand afterward. That is because you rock.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I need the form to be able to hammer the poem into it, which makes it, in my mind, not as much of a poem as if it had just flowed from somewhere like yours flow from the golden ether around your head.

You haven't seen any reviews of the thing up, in general, yet?

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which makes it, in my mind, not as much of a poem as if it had just flowed from somewhere like yours flow from the golden ether around your head.

I don't think you get to write off all formal poetry that easily. You still rock.

You haven't seen any reviews of the thing up, in general, yet?

No; I have no idea where review copies have been sent. Can you poke oldcharliebrown and find out?