As it looks like I just keep failing to live up to expectations by actually submitting anything with enough frequency that it would have a chance in hell at being published, I have decided to at least let my work have a little bit of air beyond the trappings of my notebook and hard drive. I find that as I get older, as much as I would love to see more of my work in publications beyond this blog, it really isn't the end game to be honest. I have always loved the thrill of putting the words together like so many pieces in a puzzle that I have no reference for, and so I am free to assemble to something as close as possible to the world that waltzes around in my head. For me, in many ways, it's this creative drive that keeps me moving in and out of the cycle of days.
But really, I want to give these little sons of bitches a chance to play around in the recess of the reader, and so it is with gratitude and warmth that I put into your hands, the first of four chapbooks I hope to publish in their entirety and share here.
Receipt Dandies is the first poetry chapbook I ever wrote and it's more or less a collection of poems I had been working on for nearly two years by the time it was completed last October. I really feel that more or less the poems seem to touch on this muted theme that what you put into life seems to have such muffled and jumbled returns, and if it were all on a receipt, they would be politely worded out to say so much as "What a waste that all was!" But enough about that, I will let you all be the judge of whether or not that theme is executed well.
For now, I am publishing under the name of Michelle Lore, to differentiate my poetic attempts from those of my prose fiction. It's not an attempt to hide my identity, but to give my different mediums a separate space to grow in my head.
The chapbook is 100% free and is available through Lulu.com, and they claim it will be available through kindle, nook, apple, etc, but I have yet to check. But here is a link to the pdf file on my google drive as well as the page on Lulu.
I hope to update the cover as soon as I get the chance, but goodness knows when I can get that up and running.
Links:
Receipt Dandies PDF
Receipt Dandies at Lulu.com
Right now I am currently working on chapbook themed around Inanna, the Sumerian fertility goddess. I may have a teaser for it here in a few days.
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