poetry publication

[rushthatspeaks]

My poem 'Telling Deaths' is live today here at Strange Horizons.

Unsurprisingly, given the title, it is not a light piece-- it is among other things a memorial poem for a friend who died.

I am glad it finally has a chance to be read.

Comments

[oracne]

It is a really excellent and moving poem.

[sovay]

I am glad it finally has a chance to be read.

I love it very much.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am glad it finally has a chance to be read.

It matters.

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

It's lovely. And strikes all kinds of chords.

[pameladean]

That's stunning.

P.

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

This poem still shatters me to the core, and not just because I was part of it. It's brilliant.

It makes things okay. To me, at least, about that particular thing.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It makes things okay. To me, at least, about that particular thing.

I'm glad. I wasn't sure whether it would. It was meant to-- you remember at the time that was the only thing I could think of to do, was write about it, and hope it would help for both of us.

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

I remember.

The best way I can think of it is to borrow a friend's review of Bujold's Memory: "It makes the world fall apart around you, but then it comes back together in a slightly different, but infinitely better, configuration of those pieces."

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful.

Nine

[jinian.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful.

And I am entirely thrown off track by the McCaffrey riff in the bio. Or is my instinctive phylogeny incorrect?

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Was that where I got that bit of the bio? Possible. I don't remember. I mostly use it because it's a snappy phrase that has the advantage of being true.

[sovay]

It's the last line of her standard bio; I just checked my copy of The Ship Who Sang. (It could be worse; I could still have had The Renegades of Pern sitting out on the shelf.) "My hair is silver, my eyes are green, and I freckle. The rest is subject to change without notice."

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I've always rather liked the line, but there's definitely a mental association. It was decidedly odd to find such similar phrasing after poetry so very different from McCaffrey's, um, verse.

[larryhammer]

I'm still re-re-reading this. Very resonant. I especially like the second part.

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That's a beautiful poem. (I only had the fortitude to get to it now.)

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.