Monday, March 22, 2010
I can change it round
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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.
6 comments:
So awesome, congratulations!!
Thanks, Suzanne!
Wonderful news, Paul! Cheers :)
Peter G.
So is it weird seeing that Amazon carries a Kindle version?
Weird? A little. But it's all a little bit weird. In a good way.
Paul,
I bought your book today. I hadn't heard of it before I saw it on the shelf, and opened to A Brief History of History and said 'yes.'
Strange things have been happening lately.
The only thing I used to be certain of was my own cynicism.
Then I fell in love over a poemphone conversation with a man thousands of miles away who is crippled and plays me one handed piano and makes me feel like a superhero hovering above a city that's much less broken than it felt last week.
Then my poetry got published for the first time.
Then I bought your book on whim and felt connected in a way that feels foreign - nurtured, almost, by the level of truth I find reflected in your words.
Thank you.
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