v. To greet someone considered hostile or interact with a person (or persons) toward whom one has mutual hostile intentions, or to greet someone with whom one is not on a variety of very good terms by using a single suggestion or a series of suggestions offered in various publications readily available.
“ ‘Do not think that we can droon all day,’ I said to Mr. Balding Tartface as he all but stepped into my footprints and barred my way on the street, carrying a box of ‘Fortunate’ Chocolates (which, fortunately, he did not offer me), ‘for the sun,’ I continued, ‘is too bright to ignore the feasts which await the both of us as we wander through this truly amazing maze.’ ” Dying for Your Enemies, a Do It Yourself Manual. Laurence A. Masters Cloudless. 1902.
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Red Dragonfly Press, 2009; 448 pages; $23
Postings of words and definitions imagined by Sid Gershgoren and published in The Extended Words: An Imaginary Dictionary (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009)
Now Available—The Extended Words (the book)
Red Dragonfly Press, 2009; 448 pages; $23
Biography
Sid Gershgoren grew up in Los Angeles and first started to write what he calls "real" poetry his last year of high school, when he met Thomas McGrath, "who got me on the right path to language", he says. He's published five books, including Past Rentals, The Wandering Heron, and Symphony (all through Red Dragonfly Press) and has published widely in various magazines and anthologies. He is currently writing villanelles, a complex poetic form introduced into England in the Renaissance. Up to this time, he has written more than 190 of them and will probably continue "in this madness" for "a little while longer. At last count he had approximately twenty unpublished manuscripts, including several volumes of haiku, a novel for juveniles, a book of curses, and a few more volumes of poetry. He intends to continue in this same vein of verbal madness.
Sid Gershgoren
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