I did it.
I finished a book of poetry, and Finishing Line Press is publishing it. BUY MY FIRST BOOK! This is real. This is me asking you. Ponderings is my first chapbook, and I need you to buy it NOW while it is in the advance sale stage. The orders that come in now will determine how many copies they publish.
PREORDER PURCHASE SHIPS July 3, 2015
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Ponderings by Lisa St. John $14.49, paper
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Here is a favorite poem from Ponderings.
ON WRITING
(With apologies to Stephen King and Francis Bacon)
Push it into a villanelle, or stretch it into a sonnet,
no. Chop it into a Tanka. A Haiku.
5 This poem is now here
7 with out struc-ture it floats like
5 a poll-u-ted fog.
“I have to be careful editing,” Alvin said, “Or I cut until my poems disappear altogether.”
Wordsworth said, “Fill the paper with the breathings of your heart.”
Colette said,” Destroy most of it.”
Julie said, “Why do we bother with it? Why?”
Summarily dismiss all critics.
Copy the masters.
Write what you know.
Imagine the moment.
Aphorize me no more!
Stereotype: Torture! Pain! Drama.
Drinking, smoking, crying writer wails, “If I don’t write I’ll die!”
Little Marquis de Sades running round writing with blood and excrement using their
fingernails. I need an emoticon here for rolling eyes.
There is no ghost in this machine.