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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Haruki Murakami.
Read his latest collection of short stories,
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
It is good.
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Got my copy of Poet Lore.
Feels good to see a poem in print.
Still eager to see Boris the Manskinner
in RHINO this Spring.
That is also good.
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Rebecca and I have survived our first semester of grad school.
Very good.
All good things!
minimum wage, pg!
I got married!!
Proper snow in Seattle and "Nine Crimes" by Damien Rice and a kitten with an acorn obsession ... very good.
Tomorrow in Chattanooga there will be 1 minute and 12 seconds more daylight than there was today.
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