Laryngitis is a strange experience. I came home from Philadelphia feeling fine but within a few days began to grow hoarse and very nearly lose my voice. For a few days, I croaked or rasped. A friend called one night and could understand nothing I said. I was beginning to worry that it would linger. But, happily, I can speak again. Still a bit deeper than usual but I'm essentially fine.
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I like traveling, even the awful, vexing parts which everyone rightly laments hold a kind of mis-adventurous appeal, but previously I was traveling maybe a couple times a year. The coming weeks will have me all over the map and that's to the good, but I'm thinking I'll grow tired of the airport and all its tense bustle.
I'm thinking I'll write several airport letter poems.
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Read the new issue of Diagram: 6.6.
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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