You can't hold the impossibly untogether

[sovay]

My poem "Shadowplay" (Jabberwocky #1) has been nominated for the 2006 Rhysling Award. I give up on guilt; it is clearly not productive. Besides, the poem was written for lesser_celery, so I can always blame him.

So far, "Bones and Bitters" (named after and loosely connected to the song; friendlocked, sorry) seems about half vampiric and half lycanthropic, and not very much like anything I've written in years. If it continues along these lines, I have less idea than usual where it will end up.

Tomorrow night, I show my class Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt. (For Valentine's Day, of course.) I remain entertained that this film contains Fritz Lang playing himself.

Comments

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

"Shadowplay" has saved my life several times since you wrote it.

I suppose it's inefficient that your poems will be competing against each other, splitting the Taaffe vote. But this really is an amazing number of Rhysling nominations in a single year. Congratulations.

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, you've just set a record. A few people have had 4 in a year, including myself, Marge Simon and David Kopaska-Merkel, but I don't think anyone has ever had five nominations in one year in the award's history.

I'll need to double-check that at some point, mind you...

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Another poem nominated? Congratulations all around. Well-deserved and you shouldn't feel guilty at all. They're nominated because people are grateful to have read them. I'm still planning to order your poetry collection, but I'm still waiting for the second copy of Singing Innocence and Experience to arrive (I think I'll have to check on that order since it was back in November that I placed it). There won't be a problem, will there, with the poetry collection running out? (I might want two copies--one for a poet friend of mine.)