My usual self is a very unusual self, and don't you forget it

[sovay]

Things that arrived in the mail today: Ben Macallan's Desdaemona and Ron Drummond's The First Woman on Mars. I like this set-up where I know people who write.

I saw first that Shelagh Delaney had died, and then John Neville. There never appears to have been a Region 1 release of A Taste of Honey (1961), but I know where to find The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). Imagination and the kitchen sink.

"Not yet"? Is that famous?

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the chapbook arrived in good time; I hope you like it! It's a pleasure and an honor being a part of your community, and there is no chance I will ever forget the delightfully unavoidable truth of your post's title. I'm told by Papaveria Press that my copy of A Mayse-Bikhl is on its way -- very much looking forward to it.

[sovay]

Glad to hear the chapbook arrived in good time; I hope you like it!

It looks like a beautiful little essay!

It's a pleasure and an honor being a part of your community, and there is no chance I will ever forget the delightfully unavoidable truth of your post's title.

Well, I took it from A Taste of Honey . . .

I'm told by Papaveria Press that my copy of A Mayse-Bikhl is on its way -- very much looking forward to it.

Thank you! I really do hope you enjoy it.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

A Mayse-Bikhl arrived on Wednesday and it is most beautiful -- among many other things, I love the binding, what a perfect grace note to the edition. I read the first half that day, and was moved repeatedly, such exquisite juxtapositions of imagery and feeling states and ideas, rich absences, changeful depths; every poem seemed ready to further unfold through multiple readings. I look forward to reading the second half, and rereading the entirety, and will write more on it at a later date.

I took it from A Taste of Honey . . .

I thought, the Beatles cover? But it seems in the last day or so I came upon that title as the title of a book of some vintage, or -- ? I cannot now recall what, for sure.

It looks like a beautiful little essay!

As you said, I say in turn: Thank you! I really do hope you enjoy it.

[sovay]

A Mayse-Bikhl arrived on Wednesday and it is most beautiful -- among many other things, I love the binding, what a perfect grace note to the edition.

Thank you! Tell Erzebet.

But it seems in the last day or so I came upon that title as the title of a book of some vintage, or -- ? I cannot now recall what, for sure.

Do you mean Shelagh Delaney's play?

I look forward to reading the second half, and rereading the entirety, and will write more on it at a later date.

If you are willing to post a review, that would be wonderful. But mostly, I hope you continue to enjoy!