That's where you rise from

[sovay]

My poem "Phersipnai" is now online at ChiZine. The title is the Etruscan name for Persephone; she is depicted as described in the Tomb of Orcus. It was written last April, when I was thinking more than usually about underworlds.

I cannot adequately express why it so made my night to discover that Benjamin Britten set Tennyson's "The Kraken" for Peter Pears to sing, but it really, really did.

I should probably save the fake news for a post with no actual content. Though the bit about Google and the Library of Alexandria . . .

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Lovely poem, that, as I remembered it being. Congratulations on the publication of it!

Glad you discovered the recording, and thank you for sharing it. Thanks also for sharing the Google bit.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the publication of it!

Thank you!

Glad you discovered the recording, and thank you for sharing it.

I like Britten very much. Finding out he (frequently) set poems I like only helps.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You're welcome!

I like Britten very much. Finding out he (frequently) set poems I like only helps.

I'm very fond of him as well. You've heard "Sacred and Profane," yes? I especially like the fact that the piece uses good (at least to my ear) reconstructed pronunciations.