sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-01-28 12:51 pm
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I got a dead ghost inside of me

My poem "Incubation" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It was written with [livejournal.com profile] teenybuffalo in mind and features a dead man, dreaming. The world's best zombie oracle still belongs to Lucan. I should get back to translating him.

This seems as good a place as any to mention that you can now purchase copies of Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, which closes with my poem "Sefer Yetzirah."

There is an impressive amount of snow around these days.
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wake unto me

[identity profile] teenybuffalo.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Well-merited.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-01-28 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Well-merited.

Thank you! And thank you for the inspiration.

This has nothing to do with zombies (at least as far as I know), but have you read any of Seamus Heaney's poems about bog bodies—"The Tollund Man," "The Grauballe Man," "The Bog Queen," "Punishment"? They form a loose cycle in his collection North (1975); they are some of the best writing about the dead I know. I wondered after the fact if they had been at the back of my head last night.

[identity profile] teenybuffalo.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know they existed, but I'm very glad to find out that they do. Coincidentally, I was just looking at pictures of bog bodies the other day. I seem to remember that the Tollund Man is wearing a rather nice leather rain hat which looks as though it would still be comfortable all these years later.

*off to read*
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