Poll results

Some supposedly interesting findings:

A) "FillText" was preferred equally by both men and women
B) "PhysEd" was preferred by men
C) "Miss America gets a perm" was preferred by men
D) "Castle with pansies & swans" was preferred by women

Since more men than women voted, B) and C) tied for People's Choice, though I think A) may have edged them out by late yesterday.

Among the voters who have actually read the poems, C) was found to be all wrong tonewise (too funny, unless the man was cropped out).

D) raised concerns the irony might be lost (though I think the pansy-headed fairy on the back cover might have solved that problem).

B) apparently looks too much like Pattie McCarthy's Verso, which I hadn't seen.

Graphic designers & bookstore employees preferred A) as looking least like a poetry collection and as being most distinctive in general.

I have through Wed. to decide for sure, but I think I will be going with A)--it was tied with D) as my personal fave all along anyway. It will be getting a few further tweaks. I will post it when it's final.

Thanks to everybody who weighed in, here or backchannel. It was a big help.

Bloofy

Cover design by the brilliant Charlie Orr, with painting by Charles Browning. Click to enlarge.

Just ordered the test copies of Drunk by Noon--whee! If we find no errors, it should go on sale in about two weeks, right on schedule.

The launch party has been scheduled for Saturday, November 10 at Stain Bar in Brooklyn. Details to come.

Cover options for For Girls will likely be posted for a poll here, sometime this weekend. I can't decide which one I like best.

Gotta love that

Four of the review snippets (which we are using in lieu of blurbs) on the back cover of For Girls (& Others) are signed by men. The other two are from uncredited reviews, but something tells me they might be male-authored as well.

Funny, no?

I have to tell someone

It is finished. I have sent it to the editor/reader people (whom I adore).

OK. Whew. I have a month for further tinkering but am going to try to resist till they've had a turn with it.

Scurrilous Toy, a Dusie Kollektiv chapbook/e-book
Cover painting: Elizabeth Zechel