We were never more than a dream

[sovay]

Today’s mail brought long-awaited contributor's copies of Jabberwocky #2, which contains my Gilgameš-inspired poem "Countries of the Sun." (hans_the_bold, that's your fault . . .) Finally! I have been looking forward to this issue for a number of months, not least because of the incredible weath of weird and mythic work it contains. And so should you be, too.

Tangent Online has reviewed the fiction rather positively, and indeed I loved Megan Messinger's "The Dark Lady," Jeannelle Ferreira's "Fix," and Cassandra Phillips-Sears' "Love Story" in particular. But this is primarily a poetic journal: I would not like to see pieces like Mike Allen's Mesoamerican-inflected "The Psychic above Burritoville," Tim Pratt's impressionistic "Diminishing," or Catherynne M. Valente's comparative "Suttee" go neglected. I'll reproduce the table of contents here if I list my favorites. Rio Le Moignan's rewritten Icarus in "Escape," Sarah Koplik's "Medea," whose last lines still chill me, Ainsley Dicks' pearlescent "the string" and Jaida Jones' "The Relationship between Lovers and Words," which nests poems within poems, or Elizabeth E. Wein's land-rooted "Arbor Low" . . . I give up. You will have to purchase a copy and see for yourself. And don't be put off by the back-cover text: Dante didn't know everything about Hell . . .

(We now return to our regularly scheduled Homeric Hymns.)

Comments

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the debut issue of Jabberwocky, which I picked up at Readercon last year. I gotta get me a #2. Here's hoping (ulterior motive) that #3 arrives after a shorter gestation.

[sovay]

I gotta get me a #2.

There should be copies at Readercon this year. You'll like the cover: it's (in the original meaning of the word) grotesque.

Here's hoping (ulterior motive) that #3 arrives after a shorter gestation.

Hear, hear!

Contributor Copies

[eredien]

Is this the point at which I should go ask the fine Pademonium folks to order and stock it?

*waits paitently at the mail slot*

[larryhammer]

Wait, the Homeric Hymns have a schedule? Where's it listed?

---L.

ps. Yay libellum collatoris!

[sovay]

Wait, the Homeric Hymns have a schedule? Where's it listed?

On my calendar. I'm reading them all (in Greek) this week. I'm two-thirds of the way through Demeter at the moment. It makes me happy.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

this week

Well, if anyone needed a reminder that our dear sovay was part changling, possibly supernatural, and capable of literary feats far beyond that of mortal men, they just got it . . .

[sovay]

and capable of literary feats far beyond that of mortal men, they just got it . . .

What? Only four or five of them are of any substantial length . . .

[larryhammer]

Oh, they have a regular private schedule.

---L.

[sovay]

By appointment only. The Muses prefer it that way.

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Today’s mail brought long-awaited contributor's copies of Jabberwocky #2, which contains my Gilgameš-inspired poem "Countries of the Sun." (hans_the_bold, that's your fault . . .)

My car broke down... my tux was lost by the cleaners... fires... floods... LOCUSTS! LOCUSTS!

That said, I look forward to seeing it!