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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-03-22 02:55 pm
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So fruit flower myself inside out

My poem "Persephone in Hel" is now online at Stone Telling #3. The theme is Whimsy; I think it might be their best issue yet. I love the illustrations. Make sure to check out the roundtable, with bonus poem by Jo Walton. I'd include the usual note about the poem's origins here, but they're part of the discussion.

I am failing to fight off yet another cold. Asklepios is fired.
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[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-22 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm happy you prefer this illustration to the Pepto-Bismol witch :)

Seriously, thank you. It is a fabulous poem.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm happy you prefer this illustration to the Pepto-Bismol witch

I can't believe an actual adult human being sent you that. That's probably a disservice to children.

It is a fabulous poem.

I am glad.

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-22 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Not only did he send me that, but he sent me another one after I politely rejected the witch.

Also, with some unhappiness I note that LJ comments are not arriving yet again.

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2011-03-22 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I wish I could get to the site from work. I guess I will have to be responsible and read later.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-22 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I will have to be responsible and read later.

I hope you find it worth the wait.

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
our faces laid together a single facade.
You look at us and see two deaths entangled,
but between us there is always room for you

Gods, I love that one.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Gods, I love that one.

Thank you.

[identity profile] ericmvan.livejournal.com 2011-03-22 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you submit that to The New Yorker? You should have.

Seriously, that is one of the best things you've ever done. Every line sings and the last two are as good and as powerful a conclusion as I can remember you penning. I'm officially starting the campaign for next year's Rhysling.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-22 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you submit that to The New Yorker? You should have.

I did. They rejected it.

Seriously, that is one of the best things you've ever done.

Thank you.

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-22 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The New Yorker hardly ever publishes women, and they're not particularly partial to mythic writing; selfishly, I'm glad they didn't buy it.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
The New Yorker hardly ever publishes women, and they're not particularly partial to mythic writing

And then there was the week they published Robert Pinsky's "Last Robot Song," Susan Stewart's "First Idyll," and Cavafy's "It Must Have Been the Spirits," so who knows.

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm not saying it's a lost cause!
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm not saying it's a lost cause!

I keep trying . . .

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Do you get personal rejections from them?

I tried them twice so far (once with poetry, and once with prose).
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Do you get personal rejections from them?

Twice, which I thought was a good sign. I should send them something again.

I tried them twice so far (once with poetry, and once with prose).

So you should, too!

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes - it is definitely a good sign! Did you get a personal on Persephone?

I get discouraged easily and have no self-confidence... maybe in the future.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you get a personal on Persephone?

"Despite its evident merit." I thought that was a good sign.

I get discouraged easily and have no self-confidence... maybe in the future.

Dunno: you appear to be on a roll now. Might as well take advantage of it.

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, cool. I got the evident merit one from them both times. I understand it's quite rare.

I am on a breadroll!
(as one of my students wrote in a recent paper, "the Enlightenment gave women a new roll").

I sent "13 Principles of Faith" (the one I just sold to Apex) to a Jewish-themed magazine, and they held it for almost a year, after which they wrote back to say that the magazine changed directions. :P This is a poem I know is good (which happens to me very rarely), and is the closest to mainstream I've ever come, so I don't even know.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the evident merit one from them both times. I understand it's quite rare.

I didn't know, actually. Neat.

I sent "13 Principles of Faith" (the one I just sold to Apex) to a Jewish-themed magazine, and they held it for almost a year, after which they wrote back to say that the magazine changed directions.

*headdesk*

This is a poem I know is good (which happens to me very rarely), and is the closest to mainstream I've ever come, so I don't even know.

I look forward to reading it.

[identity profile] ericmvan.livejournal.com 2011-03-22 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I did. They rejected it.

I'm glad you did, anyway. Their loss.

[identity profile] mamishka.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
I am failing to fight off yet another cold. Asklepios is fired.

God, me too!! Been sick all weekend. What is it about these past few months? I've never sick like this before. o.O

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am failing to fight off yet another cold. Asklepios is fired.
Seriously.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously.

[identity profile] mamishka.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Additionally, the title of your poem had me thinking that this was going to be a mythological exploration of parallels between Persephone and Hel from Metropolis. Now that's all I can think of. ;)
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
a mythological exploration of parallels between Persephone and Hel from Metropolis. Now that's all I can think of.

Write it write it write it!

[identity profile] mamishka.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
*grins* I'll think about it, but I'm no poet, alas. :)

[identity profile] tithenai.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
That is a stunning poem, Sonya. It made me hold my breath. I really, really love it.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I really, really love it.

Thank you.

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
<3 this poem somuch. And I feel like it's pushing at boundaries for you, which is really exciting cause I can't wait to see what you push at next :)
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
And I feel like it's pushing at boundaries for you, which is really exciting cause I can't wait to see what you push at next

Thank you. I hope. At the minute I seem to be stuck in the middle of a narrative poem that requires research, which I am not right now capable of . . .

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
ohdear! luck with that!
I am stuck on stuff that requires research I'm not capable of tooo but I'm not actually at the writing part of it so I'm not stuck in it...

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
International Restaurant and Tuba Museum??
That might be worth a road trip some time...

And sovay, did I ever actually send you the transcription of the first draft of H.D.'s "Helen"?
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
That might be worth a road trip some time...

Honestly, I'd be up for that.

And sovay, did I ever actually send you the transcription of the first draft of H.D.'s "Helen"?

No, I don't think you ever did.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Just beautiful. Utterly.

Nine
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Just beautiful. Utterly.

Thank you.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! The poem, as I hope I've said before, is wonderful. And the illustration is perfect.

Sorry that Asklepios is failing to help you. My allergies are acting up right now--it's not a pleasant season of the year for such things.*

*As if there were a pleasant season of the year for congestion etc, but I digress...
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-03-23 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! The poem, as I hope I've said before, is wonderful.

Thank you!

And the illustration is perfect.

I don't know where [livejournal.com profile] rose_lemberg found it, but I approve.

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I have mojo!

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