Monday, April 18, 2011

I didn't realize that this blog site was still active . . .


Ali,

Thanks for reminding me that this blog site is still active. I don't know why, but for some reason I had assumed that this was no longer the case, which explains my long absence from here.

A lot of things have happened during the last year or so, but perhaps the most important is that my next book (my 5th) is about to be published. This one is going to be a collection of my essays, many of which have had a home on my website for quite a long time. Once the book appears, I'll remove most of them from the site, but I intend to add new essays there as well.

The new book is Dancing With the Daffodils: Essays on Life and Love and Letters. It's being published by a new small press located in Southwestern Indiana. I will add the image of its title page to the end of this post.

At this point all I had wanted to say is that I am glad I am back. Soon I'll write some short pieces worth reading. Right now, this is it. And, oh yes, here's the image of the cover of my new book:


1 comment:

Alireza Taghdarreh said...

Hello Steve,

Thank you very much for returning to our old blog, my dear friend. With you a new soul will enter the dormant body of our blog. I have always admired your insatiable passion for literature. In a world where television is blindingly dazzling the eyes of the majority of people in the world, I would like to cherish you as a man who reflects the beautiful rays of the sun of literature.

Please stay on this blog and let our beloved poets and writers live here through your profound or even casual prose.

Your old student,
Ali