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My poem "Wisdom" has been accepted by Mythic Delirium. It's a piece I conceived of while staying with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strange_selkie and darthrami last July, though it turned out to want to be written at this year's Readercon; it has to do with the postwar fate of the fools of Chelm and is entirely unrelated to the fact that Tisha B'Av began tonight, except that I find the conjunction appropriate.
This afternoon yielded frozen yogurt from BerryLine with Eric (I correctly diagnosed the existence and location of the original store on Arrow Street from the presence of a passerby with a medium-sized cup of blueberry-banana, having been previously unaware of any locations other than the one on Mass. Ave.) and a successful pass through two used book stores: I am now in possession of Jane Campion's screenplay for The Piano (1993), David R. McCann's Early Korean Literature: Selections and Translations (2000), Nathaniel Deutsch's The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (2003), and Théophile Gautier's My Fantoms (2008). The last is making me particularly happy; if Gautier was not one of Tanith Lee's formative influences, then evidently he should have been one of her muses, because the seven stories collected and translated by Richard Holmes are populated by diabolical actors and obsessed painters and beautiful vampires and priests and sexually predatory ghosts of Pompeii; I love the Symbolists. I may go back for the children's picture book about Paganini, if it's not gone by the next time I'm in Harvard Square. It had a terrifying angel.
I have got a dentist's appointment tomorrow.
strange_selkie and darthrami last July, though it turned out to want to be written at this year's Readercon; it has to do with the postwar fate of the fools of Chelm and is entirely unrelated to the fact that Tisha B'Av began tonight, except that I find the conjunction appropriate.This afternoon yielded frozen yogurt from BerryLine with Eric (I correctly diagnosed the existence and location of the original store on Arrow Street from the presence of a passerby with a medium-sized cup of blueberry-banana, having been previously unaware of any locations other than the one on Mass. Ave.) and a successful pass through two used book stores: I am now in possession of Jane Campion's screenplay for The Piano (1993), David R. McCann's Early Korean Literature: Selections and Translations (2000), Nathaniel Deutsch's The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (2003), and Théophile Gautier's My Fantoms (2008). The last is making me particularly happy; if Gautier was not one of Tanith Lee's formative influences, then evidently he should have been one of her muses, because the seven stories collected and translated by Richard Holmes are populated by diabolical actors and obsessed painters and beautiful vampires and priests and sexually predatory ghosts of Pompeii; I love the Symbolists. I may go back for the children's picture book about Paganini, if it's not gone by the next time I'm in Harvard Square. It had a terrifying angel.
I have got a dentist's appointment tomorrow.
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It was! I couldn't quite repeat the feat today, but there's always tomorrow.
The McCann volume has weirdly imbalanced mini-introductions for the pieces included, so if things don't quite make sense or seem to be missing, it Isn't You. His translations do tend to be fairly good, I'm told.
Thank you. This actually very useful for me to know, since McCann is going to be my introduction to early Korean literature, unless you count some random sijo and Chunhyang. Do you have anyone you'd recommend for overview and background instead?
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Sadly, no. There is the ubiquitous Peter H. Lee, who inter alia has edited a history of Korean literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003); I've read enough bits of his work and of others', now, to feel that I don't quite trust him, scholastically speaking. I've been piecing together a context very slowly. McCann's intro-lets don't really hurt anything. It just seems, from his articles, that he could've put in a bit more effort for the putative undergrads who're to buy this little collection (because McCann does have useful things to say sometimes).
Curious to find out what you think of the book later!