Daily affirmation: today is the first day of the rest of my directionless life.
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Happy Valentine's Day, all you crazy romantics.
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Holy crap.
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:
Sure, it may seem directionless now. But that's because we haven't desecrated a very specific hotel room at AWP with Burger King paper crowns yet.
But we will. Oh yes, we will. And then this whole "directionless" business won't even register, Guest.
paul,
many people suffer from directionless lives even when they have a job that pays well. you are not directionless. you're living well with people you love and whom you love. you get to live, not caught up in the rat race mania so many are caught up in, including most of your bloggers and myself. You Are Living, and you have grace and dignity and can write anything you damn well please.
rad
You have the art. Which might seem cold comfort at times, I know.
don't be so hard on yourself--life is not all about the job or the money.
paul is my favorite male name, therefore you are awesome. no need to thank me! ;)
Happy Valentine's Day, Paul. And I always like all of your directions or not-directions anyway.
Your daily affirmation is right out of a Charlie Kaufman screenplay.
Have you considered screenwriting?
Can you give us that Barton Fink feeling?
There is an eerie half-glow of beauty in despondency.
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