Comments on: a/POC/a/LIPS http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/ poetry: a curious look at this 21st century pleasure Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:50:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Zachary Chartkoff http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/#comment-18 Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:22:53 +0000 http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/#comment-18 You have groovie news of your own, my friend! Good luck in Guam or New Jersey, or Maine, or whatever blighted part of the country the Colony is in. I am also very curious about the “Stars are the Slowest Lightning” mss. Is this the same book that won the Web Del Sol contest? (by the way, I love the line: "Steal, steal, steal. Distill. Absorb" in your interview) Have I not clicked on the right link on your webpage to find it? Is it sitting in your office somewhere? What became of the poems? You have groovie news of your own, my friend! Good luck in Guam or New Jersey, or Maine, or whatever blighted part of the country the Colony is in. I am also very curious about the “Stars are the Slowest Lightning” mss. Is this the same book that won the Web Del Sol contest? (by the way, I love the line: “Steal, steal, steal. Distill. Absorb” in your interview) Have I not clicked on the right link on your webpage to find it? Is it sitting in your office somewhere? What became of the poems?

]]> by: eduardo http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/#comment-17 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:02:22 +0000 http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/#comment-17 Zachary, Wow. You're really throwing your hat into the ring! I should be sending out too, but I'm going to wait for the late late fall contests and the upcoming spring. Good luck! When the Waves Take Me: I dig the title. Now of course, I expect to read poems trumpeting ocean images a la Derek Walcott. Titles are freaking hard. For poems and for collections. For the longest time the title of my mss was "Stars are the Slowest Lightning" but then I realized the title was too pretentious. It screamed Poetry. Yuck. So I ditched the title and struggled for months to come up with a new title. I wasn't looking for a title that sums up the collection. I don't think titles should always do that. I wanted to find a title that would pop out on the spine of a book, a title that would catch the reader's gaze. A beautiful title. I finally settled on "Asleep Inside an Old Guitar," which was also the name of my first blog. The title comes from a line from one of my favorite poems in the mss. A villanelle by the way. Well, an altered villanelle form I stole from Donald Justice. The title doesn't sum up the collection, but I might be too close to the forest to see the trees. Zachary,

Wow. You’re really throwing your hat into the ring! I should be sending out too, but I’m going to wait for the late late fall contests and the upcoming spring. Good luck!

When the Waves Take Me: I dig the title. Now of course, I expect to read poems trumpeting ocean images a la Derek Walcott.

Titles are freaking hard. For poems and for collections. For the longest time the title of my mss was “Stars are the Slowest Lightning” but then I realized the title was too pretentious. It screamed Poetry. Yuck. So I ditched the title and struggled for months to come up with a new title. I wasn’t looking for a title that sums up the collection. I don’t think titles should always do that. I wanted to find a title that would pop out on the spine of a book, a title that would catch the reader’s gaze. A beautiful title.

I finally settled on “Asleep Inside an Old Guitar,” which was also the name of my first blog. The title comes from a line from one of my favorite poems in the mss. A villanelle by the way. Well, an altered villanelle form I stole from Donald Justice. The title doesn’t sum up the collection, but I might be too close to the forest to see the trees.

]]> by: Shelby http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/#comment-16 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:15:46 +0000 http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2005/10/31/apocalips/#comment-16 Yes, you were getting a little slap happy with the title ideas as the evening wore on :-). Still, I'm thrilled to see something pulled together - and looking and sounding so very very fine, if I may say so! You can call on Cruel Mistress Shelby's Ruthless Editing and Typesetting Service any day, baby (well, maybe after a few days to get the chaos that's evolved while we were hunched over the kitchen table under control!) Here's to you -- Yes, you were getting a little slap happy with the title ideas as the evening wore on :-) . Still, I’m thrilled to see something pulled together - and looking and sounding so very very fine, if I may say so! You can call on Cruel Mistress Shelby’s Ruthless Editing and Typesetting Service any day, baby (well, maybe after a few days to get the chaos that’s evolved while we were hunched over the kitchen table under control!)

Here’s to you –

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