Sestina for Death: A Lagniappe
March 6, 2011 in Horror, Lagniappes, Poetry
Tags: Horror, Poetry
In a wonderful feat of missed timing (speaking of awards) I just realized voting for STRANGE HORIZONS’ reader poll for, among other things, best poem posted last year is ending even as I write this. Today’s lagniappe, from the August 30, 2010 issue, is unlikely to win in any event though; STRANGE HORIZONS is one of the top internet magazines and the competition is extremely tough.
However that doesn’t mean the poem can’t be enjoyed just for itself, so, as we enter March with hopes of warmth and rebirth and life to come, herewith as a lagniappe “Sestina for Death.”
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My latest book, AVOID SEEING A MOUSE AND OTHER TALES OF THE REAL AND SURREAL, is a January 2024 release from Alien Buddha Press, following 2017’s TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press. I am an Indiana based short story writer and poet with three other primarily prose collections, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE and DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET published by Dark Regions Press and the Bram Stoker Award(R) nominated THE TEARS OF ISIS from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, along with an illustrated all-poetry collection, VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE), from Sam’s Dot Publishing/White Cat Publications. I also have a novelette, THE GARDEN from Damnation Books; electronic chapbooks VANITAS and I’M DREAMING OF A . . . and novelette PEDS from Untreed Reads Publishing; POLUDNITSA in Chamberton Publishing’s “Chimera” short fantasy series; and more than five hundred individual appearances in magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, Britain, France, Australia, Holland, and Brazil, ranging from ABORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION and ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE to XENOPHILIA and THE YELLOW BAT REVIEW. In the past I have worked a number of jobs including technical writer, city editor on a regional magazine, full time non-fiction freelancer, and semi-professional musician, and now reside in southern Indiana with current cat, Triana, named for the goth-styled daughter of Dr. Orpheus in the VENTURE BROS. Cartoon Channel series. As a writer, I count as major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.
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