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I am trying, and failing, to find an affordable used copy of Lucie Brock-Broido's first book of poetry (A Hunger). The best price I can find is over $70. This is _insane_ -- no one reads poetry! Hello?

Aie. She has a new one out though, and that makes me happy. As I've probably spent more hours with The Master Letters than any other book I own, which is saying a great deal.

LJ, btw, seems suddenly to think I live on the West Coast. While an irritant, this charms me.

Having fixed that 100 Gods piece (which basically has the effect, in a really convoluted and somewhat odd way from of switching me to the observed instead of observing), I am both a) desperately trying to write another b) trying to think where to submit it to, being so fucking far out of the poetry loop I don't know what to do with myself.

In partial response to my query earlier in the week, yes, Lucie Brock-Broido is so my poetry role-model. I didn't realize she taught in the city. Ah, to be a Columbia student (

ladyjaida I think she only teaches grad stuff, not sure -- but she's the poet I kept quoting to you in alternate narrative context, if that's a way of putting it. If you ever get a chance to study with her, you must tell me all about it).

Having resigned myself to not going to the HP club night, Kat stepped up and now we're going together. I'm excited and bittersweet about so many things.

Anyway, back to Brock-Broido, one of her poems, found on the Internet:
http://www.webdelsol.com/AGNI/ag2-lb.htm

The last lines:
The moment between Have & Shall Not Want, we who have salt
Always know, that we who have--the best of us--did not come back.

She just completely fucking wows me.

And and and... the new Steve Erickson is out.

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I know I have already expressed this, but I must say again, I so wish I was there. Bittersweet is better than taco bell spicy any day of my week.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3649200

I know it's walmart, but it's new, paperback and $12

Oh, brilliant... means it's being republished, and I can just get it when it comes out, _and_ not from WalMart, which is totally destroying civilization.

http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?pid=0394758528

Books-a-million , $18

And I agree about wal-mart. It was the first good hit I had when searching.

"Sorry item is currently not available"

I can wait til October since it's being rereleased.

Blah, missed that bit. Also saw it as " coming soon " at B&N.

Yes, I'm a geek.

Why must I work and be so far away?! I have the perfect HP costume and the snake cane. Damn it.

You should see my cane!

So you know... remember all the stories we wrote placing the boys at about 17/18/19... before it got ugly... that's the inspiration for the costume tonight. No one will no what it is but me, but then, no one has to.

That happy before the storm part of everything. I love that part.

Yeah. Maybe we'll take pictures.

Sweet! I will be doing laundry, sadly without the help of house elves.

As I search to see if she's teaching anything this coming semester that I can somehow squish my way into. Who-hoa.

I was in the process of pleading with you to send me a copy of the 100 gods piece, but then when I pawed through my memories, knowing it was stuffed away in there, I saw that you'd updated the original. I'm so pleased.

I wish I'd known about it slightly more in advance - I would have loved to have gone.

There's one more thing on it, I'm toying with... but the perspective shift has done so much for it I think... it's made the subject of it the hideously mortal one, instead of myself... and it works for me internally, even if it might not matter too much externally.

I've also gotten some seed ideas for two more pieces in the series... so we'll see what happens.

Yeah... I never know far enough in advice about these club things, but there will be a full report.

Will mail you this weekend about socializing.

Also, think you will love the Brock-Broido pieces I just posted links to.

I look forward to reading whatever you come up with.

I did read and enjoy the Brock-Broido pieces. I will type up a poem or to that I think you will enjoy and post it in my Livejournal in a bit, from a book my best friend sent me.

Re: socializing -- All right.

LJ, btw, seems suddenly to think I live on the West Coast. While an irritant, this charms me.

Me too.

In partial response to my query earlier in the week, yes, Lucie Brock-Broido is so my poetry role-model. I didn't realize she taught in the city. Ah, to be a Columbia student (ladyjaida I think she only teaches grad stuff

You know I can take courses at Columbia for free, right?

Aaaah aaaah aaaah.
I have no idea if you'd like her work, but it's agressively verbal and would at least really interest you evne if it made you want to yell at her.

I like the auditory sound of her poems, as well as their elegance. They make me want to read aloud to people.

if you don't want to wait and are willing to pay the money for a "very good condition" used copy try:

http://www.getcheapbooks.com/gcb_new/compare2.asp?isbn=0394758528

getcheapbooks.com was a lifesaver in getting my textbooks this year.

i think the cheapest one is 43.44 w/ shipping