Bought This Clumsy Living, Bob Hicok's new book this weekend. I liked his thank you to those who looked over the manuscript: "you fools." I'm going to steal that.
Good book, of course. Bob makes it look easy.
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C. Dale recently posted about not bothering to send in poems for a Pushcart nomination. I understand that, to an extent. I just got two nominations in the mail, the nominations from previous winners, and though I've been coming up empty for six years now, I'll keep sending in.
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Listening to Late Registration by Kanye West. Before that? Regina Spektor.
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New poem this weekend. The first on the mac. Didn't feel any different.
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Valentine's Day.
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.
3 comments:
Paul,
If you want to send in three poems for me, that would be great. My not sending is purely a time issue. I am swamped beyond belief and don't have the time to go find the journals, photocopy poems, mail it off, etc. It just came at a really bad time.
Congrats on the nomination. You should enter. You are a better poet than me and have a better chance.
I didn't mean to call you out or anything, C. Dale; I hope it didn't seem like that. If so, I'm sorry. I just meant that I understood: I did the same thing last year -- I just couldn't get it together.
No Paul, I didn't take it that way. I am just clarifying here. I have been questioned about that statement of mine several times on and offline. I wanted to make clear why I am not entering. I cannot get it together in time.
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