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It's at $257 now. And there is a HHH that is at 203.50
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HOHH letter. As new. All swag and planchette. $4150 shipped. lt letter ‘Y’!
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Paul, was your status text notification hacked? I got this from the same number I get my status updates.
“To complete your subscription AND entry into the Disturbia Haunted House contests, simply reply with the word, " YES ".”
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No, not hacked. The way these bulk text message apps work is that you are assigned a shared number code. This number is shared across multiple accounts. So it's possible for another company to have that same shared code. I would imagine that you would have to opt-in to that if you're receiving texts from it from a different company. If you didn't opt in, then it's spam.
Ah. Ok. I thought Suntup was hosting a haunted house. I was going to book travel.No, not hacked. The way these bulk text message apps work is that you are assigned a shared number code. This number is shared across multiple accounts. So it's possible for another company to have that same shared code. I would imagine that you would have to opt-in to that if you're receiving texts from it from a different company. If you didn't opt in, then it's spam.
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Congrats on the lightning quick sell out the other day, Paul. That was impressive.
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Regarding the next book: While any Pulitzer Prize winning poetry is sure to be impressive, 2012’s winner sounds like it would be right up our alley.
“Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith
A collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.
With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith imagines a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself as among the best poets of her generation.”
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/tracy-k-smith
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Thanks Patrick. It’s not that one. No one has actually guessed this book. It might be the only one!
Hm, well it's back to the drawing board for us i suppose. 🙃
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.
His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and, as in his other books, domestic life and the conversation between men and women. New themes emerge as well, perhaps: the essence of memory and of time.
The works here look at paintings, at Gerhard Richter as well as Vermeer, and pay tribute to his particular literary masters, friend Czesław Miłosz, the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, Horace, Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered glimpses of a surpris*ingly green and vibrant twenty-first-century Berlin; of the demilitarized zone between the Koreas; of a Bangkok night, a Mexican desert, and an early summer morning in Paris, all brought into a vivid present and with a passionate meditation on what it is and has been to be alive. "It has always been Mr. Hass's aim," the New York Times Book Review wrote, "to get the whole man, head and heart and hands and everything else, into his poetry."
Every new volume by Robert Hass is a major event in poetry, and this beautiful collection is no exception.
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Oooooh. Intriguing. Usually I wait for the others to form a consensus and assume it’s that. Thought I’d take a shot this time.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
I know right? Usually people before me, with one exception though, guess the book right but (with a lot of other contestants) this one almost seems to be nearly impossible to guess right though the biggest hint given in the schedule is that the author is still alive.Oooooh. Intriguing. Usually I wait for the others to form a consensus and assume it’s that. Thought I’d take a shot this time.
Ah well, it keeps us busy with guessing the book. 😬
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies
It would be impressive if it’s the 2020 winner since that was just announced five months ago, but what are the odds of that? Jericho Brown’s “The Testament” sounds good though.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
This book has been in the works for just over 18 months. Back then, things were quite different to how they are now in terms of demand. An interesting fact about this one is that I was thinking about launching the press with it. I was sitting around, trying to figure out how to get this publishing idea off the ground, and what book I would do first. I was over at the letterpress printer who ended up printing the text pages of the portfolio, and I proposed that we go out with this book of poetry. I looked into it at the time, but didn't get anywhere. This was before I even thought about the portfolio.
Well, as you know, it was the portfolio that ended up being the first publication, then in early 2019 I started to look at this again. Once it was under contract, it progressed very slowly. There were some delays and such. Anyway, it feels to me that this book has been in the works for 4 years! So I am really excited to finally have it see the light of day.
Why I chose this one, is that many years ago, when I first got into poetry, a friend had given a copy to me as a house warming gift when I moved into a new apartment. I read it, and became a fan of the poet. Over the years, I collected the first editions of his other volumes. And his style also had an influence on my own writing. So it seemed like the obvious choice to me.
But anyway, I'm just really pleased to finally get this book out after all this time, and I'm equally pleased with how it has turned out.
WOW Paul.. thank you for the backstory. I enjoy this much as much as the books. I always enjoy hearing of your books signing and making adventures my man
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I really wish I was on the less than 150 number track so I could have the opportunity to buy this book
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Great story Paul. I will most likely be getting this. I wish I could publish my poetry though. But I am looking forward to reading these poems
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Thanks for the backstory Paul. So interesting that this is where you wanted to start. I'm really happy that I'll be among those able to buy this book.
(Which book are we talking about? Bibliomysteries ?)
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The poetry one, that has yet to become. 😉
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And now we know it’s not recent and is a male author - narrows down the choices a bit more.The poetry one, that has yet to become. 😉
'chaos, mr. who, that is our mode and modus'
Yes, it does help narrowing it down. Even though i'm not on the train i'm still curious to see what book it is. 😉And now we know it’s not recent and is a male author - narrows down the choices a bit more.The poetry one, that has yet to become. 😉
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The poetry is EAP-
Poe
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
Heh - but, yes a Poe poetry collection would be good. Thornwillow did some broadsides of his poetry recently
'chaos, mr. who, that is our mode and modus'
It’s backstory like this that really makes a book more personal and amps up my excitement. Thank for you for sharing, Paul!
Farrell, it’s a living author - or at least was recently enough to sign the limitation pages.
Edited for clarity.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
I guess it was bound to happen, but if I had this book, I would never it go.
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Ended at $287. Tell me I got it at a good price? Not really into arcs but 2 from Paul himself, and the need for a copy of the Road has changed my view of them.
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