Congratulations on all of your good news, Paul. I have always wished you the best, in spite of everything. I hope that you're happy with all of this happiness-making-stuff that is happening for you. It is so easy for the world to serve up the worst things to the best people and so nice when it does otherwise. Here's wishing you more wonders in love and language. That first hearing on the radio told me you were bound for greatness (and didn't I even say P & W article?)
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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Congrats on the book, Paul, and on the inevitable applause!
It is lovely, indeed.
Many congratulations, Paul -- I look forward to reading your book, and to reading with you at AWP Chicago!
Aww yeah! Excited over here. :)
*hug*
Melissa
Awesome, Paul. Congrats!
Over at the first books blog you wrote, "Most poets are lucky if they’re able to change their pants."
Just when I'd forgotten why I love you so much...
Good looking book, Paul. You're famous enough now (deservedly so) that when I tell people I know you, they think I'm telling a lie.
Can't wait to see you in Chicago...
--Matt
May you sell a million copies! --Theresa Williams
Yay! I can't wait to see it! And congrats on the PW review! More exclamation points!!!
Yesssss.
Please keep us posted on future readings.
Congratulations on all of your good news, Paul. I have always wished you the best, in spite of everything. I hope that you're happy with all of this happiness-making-stuff that is happening for you. It is so easy for the world to serve up the worst things to the best people and so nice when it does otherwise. Here's wishing you more wonders in love and language. That first hearing on the radio told me you were bound for greatness (and didn't I even say P & W article?)
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