Post by moira on Oct 18, 2008 17:35:14 GMT 2
.... it's really true! It really is a book!
My copy of 'Letters' just arrived today. When the ideas for
the book were first being discussed I wrote here,
"I really, really want to have this book on my shelf. I
want to be part of such an anthology. I think it could be
one of the most amazing, eclectic collections of poetry
I'll ever come across."
That was in November 2005 and last night I watched a
Cinderella movie and this morning it seems as if 260 fairy
godmothers have done magic.
Team E(xtraordinaire)ditorial was amazing. I heard them
discuss things about manuscripts that I still don't know
what they are, and I watched them make sure things would be
correct that I had never realised could go wrong in a book
and they fielded correspondence enough to have used up an
entire forest of trees had it all been written on paper.
Two years ago I was a virgin to publishing and Red Hen were
gentle and loving and knew how to find the g-spot. And 259
poets who generously gave poems and their encouragement and
without whose faith in the project there'd have been
nothing to fill the space between these covers ... oh the
beautiful cover ... and this copy at the far end of Africa
autographed by a couple of dozen poets as if the AWP party
came here and had a ball and left behind a golden slipper.
I'm gushing, I'd better stop but I do have a spare room if
anyone ever passes by here.
my sincere thanks to you all for this gift
love, moi
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Moira Richards