Carol,
Thank you, oodles--I love having a book that is among your favorites. Happy New Year!
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If any passers-by want a peek, here's a link to the Phoenicia Publishing page for
Thaliad:
http://www.phoeniciapublishing.com/thaliad.html. It has lots of comments (from poets and from literary and genre novelists) and so forth, and also explains how to acquire the book in a number of different ways, and in hardcover as well as paperback.
A Pinterest page collects more than a dozen images from the book (more not shown, as surprises are good!) from the Clive Hicks-Jenkins art for the book:
http://pinterest.com/marlyyoumans/th...blishing-2012/. A long friendship with Clive has resulted in book jackets and the rich, profuse art for
The Foliate Head and
Thaliad. I'm grateful to him!