Okay has anyone read Anne Carson’s Decreation and did you like it?

I just realized I am going to Maine in four days and I have done absolutely nothing to get ready, that and my brother’s command I should NOT wear black (my love mourning clothes) to the wedding has left me breathless.

I really need to clone myself. I need a blogging self, a mother self, a writer self. Hell throw in a Maine self who can go visit my family and not need therapy.

I worked on submissions today. I am excited to see Grace Paley guest editing Alaska Quarterly. She had some brilliant poems in the last issue. She wrote fiction most of her life but has spent the last five year or so exclusively on poetry. I wonder what my waves will be. I have find fiction strangely freeing after working so long on a manuscript of poetry. It is kind of like being let loose in a candy store.

Tell me what you are reading. I need new books....