I never listen to any of the recordings I've made for places like Slate or the poems I did for Fishouse. I can't stand how I sound. But last night, I thought, what the heck, I'll see what I sound like.
And of course I sound fourteen.
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.
9 comments:
Oh, Paul. You don't sound 14. I made a CD of poetry recordings from one of my friends and included your poem "Water" on it. She loves it. We all do.
Fourteen AND pimply-faced.
Agh!
Yeah ... your voice and the voice in the poem sound different...
And my mom dresses me funny!
heh
Your recorded voice sounds identical to mine on tape / I always felt younger than my age. 14, hmm?
I don't think you sound 14 at all. The recordings sounded great to me. But of course, I don't think we ever sound exactly like our recordings and no one ever likes the sound of their recorded voice. For example, I think that I really sound 14. And as if I'm mysteriously congested. I find it pretty demoralizing, actually.
It is demoralizing! Which is why I never listen.
But, really, I protest too much. I'm just having fun with this, poking fun at myself.
You sound better in person.
Jill (who can't remember her blogger password)
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