Working on Writers' Reserve applications this week. I think I am sending a selection from the long poem "Too Strong to Stop , Too Sweet to Lose," plus a half-dozen or so of the poems with historical figures in them, including "Brady's Ghosts," "To General Pinochet at 83," "The Bridge," etc.
The little one paragraph describe your project thing goes:
Too Strong to Stop, Too Sweet to Lose is a loose collection of portraits and elegies, concerned with how the dead are remembered or forgotten. The title piece is a long poem in short parts that approaches history and its silences through objects and symbols rather than people. I intend Too Strong� as a full-length manuscript.
Gee, that sounds convincing. Almost as if I actually have a plan.
You _always_ have a plan. It may be
bubbling in the back of your brain and not terribly conscious, but it's a plan nonetheless. Glad applications go well.
Hi, Erin. Sorry to point this out, but I wouldn't want you to be overlooked for a spelling mistake [though thinking about it, I doubt that they would, really. Okay, I'm just being a pedant]. I don't think you'd meant to type 'tittle'. Sorry, sorry, sorry... [*genuflects, backing to the door*] :-)