Last week I was flirting with exhaustion. Just at my limit. My body hurt. A really good weekend helped. More on that tomorrow.
Today, I received the blurbs for my book. I was gobsmacked.
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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Dare we ask who?
Your title reminded me of Ultra Pee-Pee from an episode of Invader Zim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLT03VhPtk
Yeah!
I remember staring in the mirror when I was five, maybe six, thinking over and over, "Am I real? Am I really real? Who is that person?" This went on until I was in some sort of detached, transcendental state. Startling.
I imagine holding your own, semi-published autobiography is something akin to that.
Paul, do you know about the Chattanooga Flying Saucer house?
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/flying-saucer-house-for-sale/20080314091609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
write me a poem.
Blurbs meaning reviews, or those endorsements on the back cover, or what?
And gobsmacked in a good way I presume.
Greeat reading this
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