Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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Eshleman has been practicing and thinking deeply about translation for a long time, and it shows. Knowing only one language myself, I can’t judge the accuracy of the translations, but each author comes across as a unique voice.
This was published in 1997, so no surprise that parts are outdated— especially the marketing advice. Other parts remain relevant, and I learned things I believe will help me write better. However, the book seems padded. An appreciation of Forrest J. Ackerman (for instance), though deserved, is not useful. Neither is Harlan Ellison’s jeremiad on the state of horror.
13 tales of weird horror by women, all originally published between 1890 and 1940, and only one I’ve read before. (“Unseen - Unfeared,” by Francis Steven’s.) All are excellent. Editor Melissa Edmundson’s introduction is interesting, but full of spoilers, so I suggest you read it after reading all the stories. You might want to read the end notes for each story first, though, to get a handle on unfamiliar terms.
Celebrate the Tanka Society of America's twentieth anniversary with tanka by 175 poets in seven themed sections: "The Earth Is …
Celebrate the Tanka Society of America's twentieth anniversary with tanka by 175 poets in seven themed sections: "The Earth Is …
The introduction is full of spoilers. Read it last.
“beauty is more now than dying’s when”
Nothing measurable can be alive;nothing which is possible cannot alive can be art;nothing which cannot be art is true…
I admire the poetry of Edward Estlin Cummings, but his Charles Eliot Norton “nonlectures” make me think less of him as a person. It’s easy for a Harvard grad who grew up in a family that owned not one but two summer homes to speak scornfully of (his scare quotes) “security.” A child whose parents regularly had to choose between rent and groceries might see a closer relationship between security and the freedom EEC so valued.
