[David Anthony]

Thanks, everyone; much appreciated.

[William A. Baurle]

Congratulations, David! I'm proud of you, and for the fact that I still hearken back to your help a few years ago in helping to get my villanelle "At Wounded Knee" published. Actually, let's forget the word 'helped': your efforts got my poem published at Candelabrum. Left to myself, the poem would have gone nowhere. I'm also indebted to Tim Murphy for drawing extra attention to my vil at the time.

On another note: I'm finally on medication and seeing a doctor, after a recent 5 day stint in the Mohave Mental Health facility up in Kingman, Arizona. I was voluntarily admitted for substance abuse, and suicidal ideation. Hopefully soon I can do some of my own self-promotion.

Until then, you set a fine example for we who take poetry seriously, and once again, congrats!

Bill

[David Anthony]

Thanks, Bill.
I hope you're feeling well again soon.
'At Wounded Knee' is one of the finest poems I've seen at Erato so it was my pleasure to help with publication, though in fact any competent poetry editor would be delighted to take it.
Best,
David

[Esther Murer]

Conglaturations. (If you can't read Japanese How do you know your book is reviewed and extensively quoted? Just curious.)

[David Anthony]

Esther,
The reviewer (Aya Yuhki) sent me a copy of the magazine with a note indicating the poems she had translated.
Regards,
David

[David Anthony]

Originally Posted by Rick Mullin

You may be shameless, but you are Big In Japan!
Congrats.

Absolutely correct, Rick. The reviews in British mags have been few and far between.

[Ann Drysdale]

I was featured in Gendaishi Techo once. A Japanese academic, Professor Fukuma Kenji came to "make interview" with me and his wife Keiko brought me a gift of the loveliest piece of woven silk I have ever seen.

He had been particularly moved by a poem I had written about an ash crook and asked if I would show it to him. He ran his fingers delicately over the sheep-teethmarks that I had described and handed it back with a kind of quiet reverence.

After they left, I held the silk against my cheek and wondered what would have happened if I had had to confess to having made the whole thing up.

[John Whitworth]

Translated into Japanese! O joy!

[Diana Manister]

Congratulations David! I enjoyed reading about your book in Amazon.

Diana

[David Anthony]

Thanks, Diana. I hope you enjoyed the poems you read.
Ann, that is so perfectly Japanese.
Best,
David