Di melodi'z an alte, nor di verter zenen naye

[sovay]

I had a perfectly ordinary day, mostly comprised of work, errands, and discovering a new bus route, and then as of the last thirty minutes I suddenly felt like a week's worth of exhaustion dropped on my head. (And I know what having something dropped on my head feels like.) Wow. This will not be an elaborate post.

1. My poetry collection A Mayse-Bikhl has been reviewed by Amal El-Mohtar in the latest issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone. It's a rave:

Here is a single warm voice that reads like watching a brilliant actor donning masks on a low-lit stage, a one-woman play of demons and dybbuks, angels and golems, ancestors and fools that will leave you breathless and uncertain of whether or not it would be appropriate to clap.

I have never found a good response to positive feedback of that degree, except to say thank you and try not to look like too much of an egomaniac when I glow. The entire issue's focus is poetry; there is work by Michele Bannister and Emily Jiang, featured art by Terri Windling, and a variety of poetry-specific reviews, including a very strong one of Rose Lemberg's forthcoming The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry. The magazine is subscription-only, but I'd call it three dollars well spent.

2. Stone Telling #7 has been reviewed by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com. It's a rave for everyone involved:

Stone Telling: Bridging is a must-read for fans of queer speculative work—and if you aren't much of a poetry reader, I suspect you will be after giving this issue a try.

This is not helping with the whole not being an egomaniac thing. I can only hope rose_lemberg is suffering the same.

3. Shirl Sazynski has sent me a print of the illustration she did for my poem "Apocalypso" in Mythic Delirium #10 in 2004. It's a Shiva-Shangó poem, written while I was at Brandeis for two of the best teachers I have ever had, Luis Yglesias and Peter Gould. I've never had a copy of the drawing before that wasn't in the magazine. I'll have to frame it. I mean, it's not like I only got around on Saturday to putting up a poster I bought in 2009 . . .

There is nothing on TCM to stare at. I think I'm going to bake.

[edit: Experimental almond-marzipan cake with lingonberry jam, baked. Now to hope that someone other than me will eat it.]

Comments

[selidor]

I think this counts as a well-deserved set of reasons for celebration. May the baking be as rewarding!
(I have quinces in the fruit bowl. must. cook.)

And thank you for spurring me to write "The Problem of Two Bodies". Silly crazy wonderful meme-things. I still owe you the actually cheerful corollary!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Yikes!

Versification hasn't had anything new since I did ST6!

Okay, rolling up the sleeves. That's getting changed.

s’farkisheft aykh di melodie

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

This is not helping with the whole not being an egomaniac thing. I can only hope rose_lemberg is suffering the same

I am suffering, but I cannot say I'm suffering the same! :D

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, o twice-beraved! (Lingonberry evokes happy days in Ikea.)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Your reviewers? They're right, you know. (I wish I'd thought of "twice-beraved.")

Glow.

And that cake is inspired. Your muse is of fire, and her kitchen is a stage.

Nine

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

[edit: Experimental almond-marzipan cake with lingonberry jam, baked. Now to hope that someone other than me will eat it.]

Hey, *I'd* try it. I just made experimental marmalade this weekend.

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

"The tune is old; it is only words"?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Experimental almond-marzipan cake with lingonberry jam, baked. Now to hope that someone other than me will eat it.

That sounds lovely, and just like the sort of sweet to go with the savor of so many lovely reviews.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Enjoy the glow; it's well-deserved.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm very pleased for the rave reviews and the print.

I hope you've had some rest.

Experimental almond-marzipan cake with lingonberry jam, baked. Now to hope that someone other than me will eat it.

It sounds splendid! I would have done, had I been in a position to do so. I hope they did, because I'd be worried for people who wouldn't eat that, unless it were prohibited them on grounds of, say, allergies or a religious taboo on lingonberries.

I hope it's turned out just as splendid as it should be.