More cool stuff: in the mail, yesterday, the fall catalog for the University of Nebraska Press and right up front a whole page for my book, all glossy and full color with a write-up and blurbs and an excerpt. Kind of neat, I must confess. Plus, tomorrow I'm getting the FedEx of the final page proofs to go over, comb for any stray typos, last minute changes, though presses aren't crazy about those, understandably. I don't have any in mind.
Very close now, very close.
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Holy crap: I had no idea Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" was so immediate, that it referred to events in the same year it was written and recorded. Jesus, imagine Bob Dylan, at his height, taking aim at you. Zantzinger is lucky he wasn't vaporized on the spot.
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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