Stuff that I have written.
Reminder: I’ll be at the Mira Mesa Barnes & Noble (the one by the movie theater) here in San Diego at 7pm tonight to do a talk and book signing. It’s a Future Salon, so expect speculations about where games are going.
Location: Barnes & Noble, 10775 Westview Parkway, San Diego, CA 92126
Poems often change a lot over their lives. Sometimes, they get better, and sometimes they get worse. Sometimes you revise sense into them, and sometimes you revise sounds, or beauty, or imagery. Sometimes, the sense of them inverts, changes, or just grows more mysterious over time.
This particular poem, I have two radically different drafts of. One of them made it into the (unpublished) book that was my thesis to get my MFA. The other was written during my undergrad years. They are both about the same place and the same theme, and even use some of the same language, but they don’t say the same things.
Today she walks on solid ground, but once
The world was water, every touch a wave,
And all her friends were mermaids, shelled and sleek.
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The following is a true story from my childhood in Peru, except that the incident didn’t happen near the Nazca lines — I don’t recall if it happened on a trip to Ica or just out in the desert on the outskirts of Lima.
And as usual, I can’t read it. Here’s one. And here’s another. This one seems to be pretty positive, but it looks like this other review came out a while ago, and dislikes chapters 9-12 and thinks that “The level which it requires as prerequisite is too high in the beginner” (!) because of the references to graph theory, liberal arts, and so on.
Allow me to solemnly recommend that if you write a book, that you not get obsessive over reviews, like me. 😛
But it reminds me that I did another interview with the folks at O’Reilly Japan a while back, so here it is:
