Spent the weekend alternately revising some of the poems in Notes and watching my 9 year old cousin play endless hours of Halo. Ok, not endless hours. My mind would have detonated. But it seemed like a lot. I'm oscillating between feeling good about the book and oh my God, everything here is awful, it isn't ready, outcast unclean, etc. Ok, it isn't that histrionic. I'm an unreliable narrator this morning. But that change that takes place when a book suddenly becomes, well, a book, and no longer a manuscript, is a touch disorienting. But, welcome, it's welcome. And I fixed a few things that had been nagging at me, which feels nice.
***
I was never a huge fan of Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams' 6,000 solo albums have seemed awfully spotty to me, but Cold Roses is awfully great, I think. Sprawling and just right.
***
What else should I be listening to?
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.
7 comments:
Mahler ;)
Mahler grooves!
It's always worthwhile to revisit The Connells (though sadly, I think, not their newest album).
Not that these exactly synch with Mr. Adams (whose COLD ROSES I don't own; yet) but Spoon's GIMME FICTION and the White Stripes GET BEHIND ME SATAN are rockin' my iTunes.
I've got the Stripes' new one; looking forward to absorbing it....
Adams' 6001 solo albums are spotty, though there's lots of good stuff buried in there.
Whiskeytown, though, is GREAT! Give 'em another listen, please?
Then listen to Son Volt's "Trace" if you don't already know and love it.
Then, Seu Jorge's renderings of Bowie songs on the Life Aquatic soundtrack.
Tony
Trace, ahh, there's a wonderful album. It's one of those albums that symbolizes a whole swath of time for me.
Post a Comment