Also, I would like to have a new book successfully placed with an awesome press. Or that my putative new book would win a book competition. Or that I could stop whining about it and everything else, because frankly, I'm getting annoyed with my own self.
The two Elvi.
You're not a whiner. What you're doing is hard. You're allowed to let off steam whenever.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile I'm sitting here wearing purply sparkly things, feeling happy.
I too wish I could see the Elvis Costello show. I heart him.
ReplyDeleteThe poetry book publishers of the world hold much too much power for the poetry world (which, is not much power in the regular world but a lot to we poets). I know. I'll start a press and publish your book and you start a press and publish my book and not only we be publishing fine books, we'd be distributing poetry power more evenly.
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