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 . . .

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Lovely dark underworld.

Fabulous monster, haunting.

Lost in the stacks.

Nine

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Oh ... yes.

Lovely.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Also, snerk: They have all employed our time-travel device, which is a simple app that runs on any Android phone

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I *love* that poem of yours. And I don't recall if I had seen the painting from the Tomb of Orcus before, but seeing it just now, I loved it, too.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to see this poem get a home.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Reading it again kicked me hard enough for a poem to fall out of my head.

[sovay]

I'm so glad to see this poem get a home.

Thank you.

Reading it again kicked me hard enough for a poem to fall out of my head.

And it's really good, too . . .

[sovay]

Lovely.

Thank you.

[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!

Thank you!

They have all employed our time-travel device, which is a simple app that runs on any Android phone

"Needless to say, we will not be releasing this app to the general public."

[sovay]

I *love* that poem of yours.

Thank you.

And I don't recall if I had seen the painting from the Tomb of Orcus before, but seeing it just now, I loved it, too.

I need to get a book of Etruscan tomb paintings. The Tomb of Orcus has some of the most striking, but they all belong to a world I wish I knew more about.

[sovay]

Lovely dark underworld.

Thank you.

Fabulous monster, haunting.

It's the one poem by Tennyson I really love, and Britten's taste in texts—Coleridge, Rimbaud, Wilfred Owen, the Lyke-Wake Dirge—continues to gratify me.

Lost in the stacks.

I wish!

[sovay]

Lovely poem. Mmm.

Thank you!

[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.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

Though the bit about Google and the Library of Alexandria . . .

Ack! If only!

Reason #1 for a time machine.

[sovay]

Reason #1 for a time machine.

Amen.