Copies of Ernest Hilbert’s Aim Your Arrows at the Sun Still Available
by Ernie on 06/01/10 at 9:57 am
I’ve been told that some readers did not understand how to order my limited edition chapbook Aim Your Arrows at the Sun. I understand entirely. It is not a commercially published book, so though it will appear in independent bookstores in select cities and from the press’s website it will not be available on Amazon or BN.com.
If you’d like to purchase a copy of this hand-sewn book with letterpress wrappers and an introduction by Adam Kirsch for $12 simply send an email to daniel@loveamongtheruins.com with your name, mailing address and choice of books. He’ll send you books and a bill. Here is a link to the press’s website.
From Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
All I got was this Lousy T-Shirt
Here I am, 80,
Having outlived the joggers, whole-fooders,
And part-time Buddhists.
Come, let’s have a drink.
My poems never made the serious
Mags, the ones I admired.
My rhymes were louche, my titles, coy;
My metrics, where they appeared at all,
Deemed too rough to please.
The cool mags shut me out as well.
I was a dinosaur, too slow
To notice a comet had made me
Extinct. I wasn’t progressive,
And my name, Paul Posey, is not exotic.
I had a career, of sorts—
Best new this, exciting younger that.
Like Pluto, demoted from planet
To something less impressive,
I swim slowly, far from the sun.
I raise a toast, to all of us,
Who never made it. So few do!
Our words hardly deserved a second glance,
Who sang, and slept, and never stood a chance.
