Oh, and I must thank CeCe and Beth for sending me Merwin’s “Paul.” I knew I’d read it from a familiar source; that CeCe found it in Christopher Salerno’s blog is wonderful. Where were my Googling skills on that one?

So, some nice movement with the press. I talked for a short while with one of the buyers at the Bull’s Head Bookshop in Chapel Hill, and they’ll be stocking BCP books in the near future. It’ll be nice to have a physical outlet for the books, and I hope that some of the other cool little bookstores in the area will follow suit.

I spent this morning going back over author photos for the next book, and sent my three finalists off to Michael. I was listening to Beyonce when I was doing it. Overall, I’m pretty unimpressed, but man, “Crazy in Love” is a killer hook. Wasn’t sorry to move on to listening to the new RJD2.

I need to send out poems again… I have about 20 that are in some state of “finished” and should be out looking for homes. The only ones still out have been out for quite a while; in fact, if I were to use Duotrope as any indicator, I would guess that I’m actually getting a pretty good look from the editors that have them.

I just read Anne Sexton’s “”Transformations” again, this time with a much more heavily critical eye. I think it’s the finest of her work. But I could probably stand to read her Complete Poems again before making that pronouncement for certain.

Picked up a few new books that I am excited about last weekend: Howard Nemerov, Landis Everson, and Eleanor Wilner among them. Finally broke down and bought Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw, as well. I haven’t finished it, but it’s very different than what I expected. I’d love to know why Copper Canyon chose such a giant book. I can’t find any evidence that it should be on 7″ x 10″ paper, but there it is.