Thanks very much for the encouragement, and also the advice. It had not occured to me that you might effectively sign over your copyright - or at least your right to publish elsewhere - by posting on the net. I know it has been an issue for us getting full text magazine and newspaper databases, and I know these are very expensive because the right to distribute on the web must be paid for - but I had no idea that, if you published anything on a weblog, you could not publish it later in hard copy. That's scary! And I'm now almost sorry I posted my "Inklings" essay on Rowling, Duane and Williams, because it strikes me that one might have been publishable. OTOH, my main goal for all the fan writings is just to have readers, and the web's a good forum for that. So I'm not *really* sorry.
Anyway, I'm really, really glad you like the poem. It's rather different from most of my others - I wrote it in anger. I have a couple of others that are creeepy, but this is the only one that's enraged, I think. It's also the only one that's overtly political. My fear was that it was heavy handed, rather than powerful, but I'm very glad it worked for you.
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Date: 2006-08-13 01:09 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm really, really glad you like the poem. It's rather different from most of my others - I wrote it in anger. I have a couple of others that are creeepy, but this is the only one that's enraged, I think. It's also the only one that's overtly political. My fear was that it was heavy handed, rather than powerful, but I'm very glad it worked for you.