My mind is fuzz this morning. Moving slow. If only I drank coffee.
Two rejections in the mail yesterday. Boo, hiss. Nice notes, though, so all is well. I probably won't send out much until the fall. Unless the itch comes. Often it does. Then I'm collating like a mad man.
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Out of the blue, I got a postcard from Ron Slate, author of The Incentive of the Maggot, saying he'd enjoyed my book. It's funny because I've been going around talking about how much I loved his title since the book came out.
Very nice gesture.
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.
2 comments:
Slate's book is good. And so is yours! So, quite fitting.
I'm going to order it today....
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