Your Cat & Other Space Aliens
- At December 01, 2007
- By Bob Howe
- In Blog Posts
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That’s the title of livejournal user maryturzillo’s volume of poetry out from Van Zeno Press. Go out and buy it. Now.
In Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, Mary manages to express the complete range of human exultation and sadness in short, jewel-like paragraphs. Joe Haldeman calls her book “…a huge banquet of food for thought, as well as a display of poetic virtuosity and intense emotional complexity.” The book has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
It is an amazing book.
karen_w_newton
My fav is the one called “Ten ways to tell your cat is an alien,” (I hope i got that title right) but her sabertooth story is cool, too.
admin
Some of my favorites are also the hardest ones to read: “Tiptree” comes to mind. Heartbreaking.
I’m thinking the phenomenon should be called Quantum Comment Entanglement: QCE “kuse,” for short.
karen_w_newton
QCE? I like it! It sounds suitably futuristic, too.
kijjohnson
Whoa, cool!
la_azteca
Thanks for posting the info about the book.
admin
I’ve been meaning to write. How’s your leg? How are you?
admin
My pleasure. Mary’s a great writer and a dear friend. Also, if you don’t buy her book, she will crush your house and eat your children.
kijjohnson
Recovering, I hope. I see the orthopedist again tomorrow and then, if everything looks good, the physical therapist. Cross your fingers for me!
maryturzillo
Thank you!
Thank you for mentioning my book, and in such flattering terms. I am in your debt!
admin
Re: Thank you!
No, thank you for the delight I’m getting out of the book. Where are you guys for the holidays?
maryturzillo
Where we are —
Geoff and I did our usual complicated geographical dance, this time complicated by the fact that his mom died the day after Christmas. I’m in Miami, wondering if I’m ever going to see copies of my next book (Dragon Soup) and enjoying my best friend’s grandchildren. The five-year-old shows rather frightening talent as a horror writer, although she exercises her talents mostly orally. There was this monster who ate houses and drank brown goo, and an Englishman with a light saber —
maryturzillo
Just read Ken’s and your Columbus essay
I just read the witty and edifying essay you and Ken Ficara wrote about Columbus and thought it somehow appropriate to this day of election primaries and bloviating politicos of all persuasions.
Check me on my history, but how come we’ve never had a Native American presidential candidate? Or did I miss something?