n. A polite leave taking with the suggestion that the people leaving one another will hope never to see each other again.
“The floon brought to mind the slowly elegant bowing waves, gracefully retreating from the shoreline, and the shoreline itself retreating, sliding from under itself, brought to mind the hesitant croaking of a single raven at the empty doorway of the still more empty voice, brought to mind a minutely perfected backwardness drawn out like a cape of felt, and the furry undertow of darkness brought to mind an orchestrated ballet that came from some other, perhaps more independent source, propelling them away, further and further away from one another, in a ritual of final, hopefully final good-byes.” The Many Pictures of Parting, Styles of the Floon in History. Care Eccles Sliding and Supreme Departure. 1900.
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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 At last count he had approximately twenty unpublished manuscripts, including several volumes of haiku, a novel for juveniles, a book of curses, and a few more volumes of poetry.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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