UNEXPECTEDLY, A NEW BOOK!

Well now.  Shortly after I said I finished

Among the Princes of Wall Street, the Persistence of Winter

a publisher contacted me!  So now I'm formatting the manuscript.  I'm pleased at the publishing opportunity--this book has an interesting structure: a novella-in-verse with a Bibliography, and the latter is comprised of verse and one (short) novel.  

It'll be great to see it in print!  As a book, it should be lovelier than this:

"NOT A NICKNAME FOR A LARGE GORILLA ..."

Okay. So I just finished a first: a novella-in-verse, this one entitled

Among the Princes of Wall Street, The Persistence of Winter

on the culture of the

Big Swinging Dicks

The Urban Dictionary says about the phrase, by the way, that "it's not a nickname for a large gorilla named Richard."

Nuff said ... though I'm scratching my head at the moment over what to do with this work ... Until I figure it out, here's a BSD:

May the image not cause you nightmares...

...THE PERSISTENCE OF WINTER

(Reading Goolrick at Pattiserrie B, San Francisco)

Robert Goolrick is such a fine writer that I read his latest novel about a topic of almost zero interest to me: Wall Street traders from the 1980s.  I'm talking about his The Fall of Princes.  And not only did I finish the book but it actually generated ten poems during its reading -- a result that pleases me since this meant I wrote poems about a topic of almost zero interest. Poetry can be (on) anything -- why shouldn't I write poems also on stuff that doesn't interest me?

Just a nota bene to the blog-as-file cabinet.