Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
November Notes
Apparently American Fractal is available on Amazon.com! I had no idea. Click this link to preorder at 32% off the cover price. I always see authors saying you should buy the book from one particular vendor instead of another, but I don’t know if there’s a best way to buy this book — just buy [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in random riff-raff by Tim
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Goosing the Golden Gimmick: Matthea Harvey’s Abecedarianism
One of the most common pieces of advice given to poets is to avoid self-consciousness—to carefully partition the artifice from the art, to hide the crafting from the crafted. And it’s good advice. The pleasure and insight we receive from poetry comes from our ability to enter it, to suspend our disbelief and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Tying the Knot
I went about a month without writing a blog post, but there was a good reason. Megan and I got married on October 18th, at a beautiful little ceremony in Malibu. Megan O’Reilly, Rattle’s assistant editor, is now Megan O’Reilly Green, which makes me smile just to see.
I still feel uncomfortable talking about my personal [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in personal prattle by Tim
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
AmFrac Cover
Swamped with no time for a proper post. You’ll know why soon, but in the meantime I wanted to put this up.
It’s made up the background art for this website for a couple months, but the cover for American Fractal is finally official. The breathtakingly intricate image is by Stacy Reed. The big thumbnail doesn’t [...]
