And thank the gods I have five coins in my pocket

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*grunts* Poems are so hard.

[sovay]

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?

[sovay]

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?