Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos XXXVII-XXXIX

John Quincy Adams
This entry is part 30 of 60 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, a few at a time. These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind for a fiction project I’d like to write next year. If you’d like to know more about the project, I recommend scrolling down to the bottom of extended post, and reading the first installment in this series. I’m currently working my way through Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI, and this week, I’m up to my second posting on …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos XXXIV-XXXVI

John Quincy Adams
This entry is part 29 of 60 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, a few at a time. These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind for a fiction project I’d like to write next year. If you’d like to know more about the project, I recommend scrolling down to the bottom of extended post, and reading the first installment in this series. Yesterday, I launched into Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI with a short essay (which it is, more than a close …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto XXXI-XXXIII

Thomas Jefferson
This entry is part 28 of 60 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, a few at a time. These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. Or maybe about artists, musicians, and poets waging a secret, occult war in some other world vaguely like ours, in a time period …

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Koreanizing Lovecraft (on a Budget)

This entry is part 13 of 15 in the series Making "The Music of Jo Hyeja"

I’m still thinking this over, since I first mentioned it last January. Had an interesting talk on a couple of weekends ago with some of my Korean SF-fan friends about Lovecraft, the contents of which surprised me. I though ol’ H.P. was popular here, given that a large number of his works had been translated and published — in some cases, there are collections containing some of the same stories, worked over by different translators, put out by different publishers, even. But I was told that Lovecraft hasn’t really caught on in any appreciable way, which also makes it hard …

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Why Should You Sponsor Me?

Most writers I know agree: going to a workshop like Clarion West isn’t, strictly speaking, a necessity for becoming a writer. However, one could say the same thing about film schools, or art and music conservatories, or for that matter for business managers. All kinds of things can be learned outside of a classroom-and-teacher paradigm. But that’s not an argument that Clarion West isn’t necessary. The workshop, and others like it, has helped a lot of writers I know get what they need to start functioning as authors–that is, as people who actually get their work published professionally, and contribute to …

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Miracle Books Story Collection Deal

So last Saturday, I signed the contract on a book deal that had been in the works for a while. I had only hinted at it until now, but since the contract’s signed, I feel I can say something about it. The twist is, the book’s a Korean-language project: the publisher is 기적의책 (Miracle Books, a small independent Korean speculative fiction publisher), which has published a few projects so far, including Korean translations of Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, Ray Cummings’ The Girl in the Golden Atom, and Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky. (As well, of course, as involvement in the Miraekyung …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto XXVIII-XXX

Pope Alexander (Alessandro) Vl
This entry is part 25 of 60 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, a few at a time. These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. Or maybe about artists, musicians, and poets waging a secret, occult war in some other world vaguely like ours, in a time period …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto XXVII

This entry is part 24 of 60 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, a few at a time. These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. Or maybe about artists, musicians, and poets waging a secret, occult war in some other world vaguely like ours, in a time period …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos XXV-XXVI

This entry is part 22 of 60 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, a few at a time. These are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. Or maybe about artists, musicians, and poets waging a secret, occult war in some other world vaguely like ours, in a time period …

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Publication News: A New Story Out, and a Reprint in Good Company

I am in the habit now of not announcing things until they’re definitely announced by the publisher, but I have some publishing news that’s definitely out of the bag, and I’m pleased about it, so here it is: First off, my Clarkesworld story “Of Melei, of Ulthar” is going to be reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu II, from Nightshade books. Checking out the Table of Contents, I am frankly bowled over to find myself in the company of the likes of Fritz Leiber and William Browning Spencer, two authors I’ve been reading since I rediscovered speculative fiction as an …

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