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[leahbobet]

Since it was enough for a whole post last time...

"The Pack Rat's Manifesto", a short poem that's probably the closest you'll ever get me to the whole concept of heartwarming, will be appearing in a future issue of On Spec.

This was surprising to me, because I've never actually sold poetry to this market. So that was cool. :)


All right, I'm back to reading Paradise Lost* now.


*We start going through it next week in class.

Comments

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee. The edition we're using is the Norton one edited by Teskey. It's pretty well footnoted, doesn't have any weird stuff in it. My old edition, which I replaced with this one, has some hilariously old-school early century British snark in it about who was the best poet SMACKDOWN and just...a really not-relativist view of literary merit that is both appallingly arrogant and makes me laugh out loud in public places. But is not as well footnoted.

[chang3002.livejournal.com]

Everybody wants to talk about their bike and why it's the best, as my wife says.

I'll get the Norton edition when the time comes. Thanks for the tip!