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The doctor's pet loony is loose again
My poem "Men Who Aren't Crazy" is now available in the latest issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone. It was written after seeing Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) at the Somerville in October and accepted on Dwight Frye's hundred-and-seventeenth birthday; it was inspired equally by his performance as Renfield and Helen Chandler's as Mina. I am always invested in versions of the story that recognize the affinity between them, Dracula's intended brides in his new country—I think the effect in Browning's film is accidental, but pointed. Even as she drinks of Dracula's blood and leans in for her fiancé's throat, I cannot remember that the word "vampire" is ever spoken in Mina's hearing, as if she cannot be trusted with the fact of what she is becoming. "Isn't this a strange conversation for men who aren't crazy?" Renfield asks the air as Van Helsing instructs Harker in the niceties of vampire-killing—the "little-known facts which the world is perhaps better off for not knowing" which have heretofore been the matter of the ex-solicitor's delusions. Under the circumstances, it seems a fair question to me. Other poetic contributors to this issue are Gwynne Garfinkle and Neile Graham, so you want to pick up a copy.
[edit] My poem "In a Funny Kind of Way" has been accepted by Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts. It is my first sale to the magazine; it takes its title and initial inspiration from The Petrifed Forest (1936) and would probably be a ghost poem if its subject had ever been actually alive. I am delighted.
Today is doing all right. I should visit my cats and then it will be not bad at all. Keep it up, National Poetry Month!
[edit] My poem "In a Funny Kind of Way" has been accepted by Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts. It is my first sale to the magazine; it takes its title and initial inspiration from The Petrifed Forest (1936) and would probably be a ghost poem if its subject had ever been actually alive. I am delighted.
Today is doing all right. I should visit my cats and then it will be not bad at all. Keep it up, National Poetry Month!
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Thank you!
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(By the way, I finally saw Phantom Lady, which I'd wanted to see after reading your review. That drum solo scene is amazing.)
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Likewise with your poetess!
(By the way, I finally saw Phantom Lady, which I'd wanted to see after reading your review. That drum solo scene is amazing.)
I'm so glad! I wish the rest of the film were as good as its heroine and her nighttime investigations, but I love everything about Elisha Cook, Jr., X-rated jazz drummer.
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that's an achievement!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!