Ok, I have to admit that the Christopher Walen blurb is bogus, though maybe I really will ask him now. Heh. And I didn't write it: it's from The Onion and it was about hot dogs, not my poems. Reading it, it struck me as a great blurb.
But can't you just hear his inflections and see his hand gestures?
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that you're a nut, but a likeable one.
I don't see his hands. First, I see his dancing.
"Paaaul Guuuesst.. de-da-dah... Paaaul Guuessst" *finger snapping included*
:)
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