I got a dead ghost inside of me

[sovay]

My poem "Incubation" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It was written with 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.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I hope we end up sharing a ToC again.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I just got my copy of Love Is a Hurtin' Thing!

That's a quick sale to Not One of Us--and I'm very glad for it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

(Also, I read your song title as "If it wasn't for the onions.")

[sovay]

I hope we end up sharing a ToC again.

I could live with that.

[sovay]

I just got my copy of Love Is a Hurtin' Thing!

Enjoy!

That's a quick sale to Not One of Us--and I'm very glad for it.

Thank you. So am I.

[sovay]

(Also, I read your song title as "If it wasn't for the onions.")

(That would be the protest song about soup.)

Tastiest. Collective. Action. Ever.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

hahahaha!

wake unto me

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Well-merited.

[sovay]

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.

[sovay]

Huzzah!

Thank you!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That was swift. And well-merited.

Nine

[sovay]

Congratulations! That was swift. And well-merited.

Thank you!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! (On both counts.)

There's an impressive amount of snow round here as well.

I would love to read more Lucan-translation from you.

And I do think you're onto something with the Séamus Heaney connexion, although I'm not sure I'd have connected the dots without your bringing it up yourself.

[sovay]

Congratulations! (On both counts.)

Thanks!

And I do think you're onto something with the Séamus Heaney connexion, although I'm not sure I'd have connected the dots without your bringing it up yourself.

I'm good at remembering allusions. I just have to track when I'm making them myself. I could always be wrong.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

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*