Poetry for a Wednesday night.

[seanan_mcguire]

I've been writing structured poetry for most of my life. For the past several years, I've participated in a writing exercise I call "Iron Poet," wherein I request three words and a poetic form, and then write a poem to match the suggestion. (I don't have a round going right now, because I am out of hours in the day. I miss it. But I'm not quite

Comments

[georgiamagnolia]

I agree with you on the Persephone theory. And I love pomegranates, plant seeds so that ideas can grow.

[seanan_mcguire]

Oh, I love your icon!

[vixyish]

That is a wonderful interview! <3

[seanan_mcguire]

Thank you!

[keristor]

"You get so busy searching the sky for a phoenix that you forget to count the crows."

That is a superb example of your imagery, if I just saw that somewhere without any attribution I would immediately think of you. That's the imagery I love in your writing, not just formal ("for publication") writing but all the way through in your blogs, the contrasts between fantastic and everyday which you see and then condense for the rest of us. It's what urban fantasy does in books, but you seem to live like that. Go you!

[seanan_mcguire]

Awwww. Thanks, sweetie.

[martianmooncrab]

Mira Grant

I almost didnt buy Feed yesterday, because its one of those freakin "Prestige" paperbacks. Short of purchasing an ebook reader and getting it that way, I could see no other way of buying it.

[seanan_mcguire]

Unfortunately, this is feedback that needs to go to my publisher, not to me. I have zero input on format of titles, or the way in which books are released.

[martianmooncrab]

I know that the author doesnt have control over the packaging of the book. I bought it anyway, but that size of book is just frustrating. I dont know anyone who "appreciates" it.

[ravens_shadow]

I love both of those poems, a little especially on "Ever After Variation" just because I find the villanelle difficult (well, most of the structured poems, I like free verse). I also completely agree about the phoenix and crows line.

These three things are a great to end my day, which otherwise was going to end on kind of a sucky note. I shall read them again, and -then- go to sleep. XD

~Sabrina

[seanan_mcguire]

Awesome. I am very glad to have improved your otherwise sucky end-of day. :)