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About Me Member General Poet RobsonnetMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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New Chapbook

Wed Jul 2, 2008, 4:03 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
  • Reading: This Is Your Brain On Music
  • Watching: CNN
  • Drinking: coffee. lots of coffee
Friends in my writers' group and elsewhere have been encouraging me to put together a collection of my poetry. I've done it a few times before, little comb-bound chapbooks I put together by hand at Office Depot and sold for a little more than it cost to make them. But if I'm going to do it again, I want to make it a bit nicer. I'll go through one of the online print-on-demand sites, either Lulu or LightningSource, which will save me many hours of time and let me sell a nicely bound 6x9 paperback of about 100 pages for around $12. I've asked my daughter, a very fine artist, if she'd be interested in doing some drawings, both to illustrate a few of the poems and to build on some of the themes, and she likes the idea. So maybe it will happen. Maybe sometime between now and Election Day.

So what I'll be doing until then is examining work I've already done, trying to choose which ones to include, rewriting some pieces, editing others, grouping and regrouping into some kind of coherent order, and pondering possible titles and covers. For now, the provisional title is "Each Joyful Little Death," that being the title of the last sonnet I wrote for Priya, and I'm figuring the finished book will be about 50 poems plus maybe 12 drawings.

Anyway, I'm going to start posting some of my old pieces, especially the heavily edited or rewritten ones but also some of the ones I've just never been sure how I felt about. Feedback is what I'm needing, honest feedback about which ones work or don't work, and which parts of each do or don't speak to you.

Thanks in advance, my friends.

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  • Current Residence: North Carolina
  • Interests: people, books, minerals, music, poetry, camping, silversmithing
  • Favourite movie: Rent, Princess Bride, August Rush, L.A. Story, Philadelphia, Chicago, Crash
  • Favourite band or musician: Andrew Robson, Jump Little Children, Leonard Cohen, Cambridge Singers
  • Favourite genre of music: classical, jazz, Celtic, sacred choral, alternative
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  • Favourite poet or writer: Taylor Mali, Tennyson, Card, Tolkein, Pratchett, Pushkin, and Loren Eiseley
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:icondamanta:
Ed, I'd just like to say that you and as an extension of yourself your son have been a great influence in my life. You are almost a father figure to me and your son has become my brother. I hope you don't mind me adopting myself into your family over the years =P

And for the love of anything bigger than ourselves. Don't stop writing.

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:iconwilddamon:
Hi Ed! It's good to see you around again. I haven't really been on DA much myself, being in my honours year at university kind of takes up all my time. I happened to be looking over some of my old stuff, and I noticed your name didn't have the "!" next to it any more so I decided to investigate :D

Today is poetry day in New Zealand. Pity I couldn't stay to listen to the readers!

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:iconmoondrunk:
what happened to the avatar?

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"My little old man and I fell out;
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I had money and he had none,
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:iconsupertre3:
Hey Ed! It's James! I finally got a deviantart back in December because I decided I would try to "spread my roots", if you will, with my poetry.
:iconmoondrunk:
you had suck a nice avatar...where are ya?

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"My little old man and I fell out;
I'll tell you what 'twas all about,--
I had money and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun."
:iconrobsonnet:
I've been pretty short on time, working too many hours. My avatar when I was on a couple of years ago was the "Turquoise Crystals" photo in my gallery, but I'll need a bit of help to adjust it to the right size or something.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Ed
"If you're not confused, you're misinformed." - Tom Clancy
The Trouble with a Love Poem
:iconmoondrunk:
no prob
(i am Desertlion)

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"My little old man and I fell out;
I'll tell you what 'twas all about,--
I had money and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun."
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Thanks for faving my work. I appreciate it.

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Hi, a friend sent me your way to check out your work. Just want to say hello.

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Poetry is truly boundless. It is my passion, writing to you, that is. I am the canvas.
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my poetry, lemon
both bitter and tart
you decide the taste of my art

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