pi & anne

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While nothing big happened on here (blog, social media, my feed), I have been busy at home. And I have also worked hard behind the scenes to finish and edit and polish six tanka sequences! I’m happy to tell you that my new book is available on the selfpublishing platform and close to be available in international stores. It’s at least already listed on Amazon except that partially the cover is still missing. Aaaaahhh. Which means GIVE IT SOME MORE DAYS. I hope it will appear within the next week!! And of course I will share with you the link where you can order it :D!

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I’ve already published a book this year … ‘something with feathers’. And anyway, here is already the next. Why? Because I wrote a ton. Because I discovered tanka sequences and their power and beauty. Because all these tanka were great companions, they sharpened the access to myself and my surrounding and made it palpable. Of course these are personal,  and they also tell stories we know…

Of a visit with people that know and love you.
Of a holiday and how it is to change your routines, to explore, to discover new sides of yourself in strange surroundings.
Of a woman in her daily life, in the structures which bind her and structures that free her.
Of an unhealthy relationship.
Of past burdens.

Another thing. I’m trying to let go. I’ve sold 17 copies of my previous book so far. I’m not telling you this so you go buy it. I’m telling you this to show you that you can write a book and it might never become a bestseller, which is most times a realistic outcome, AND IT DOESN’T HAVE TO.  That’s my with sadness mingled, happy pride approach on this. I’ve previously written about selfpublishing, but it’s worth to step further back and think about why one wants to get published at all, including having single poems in journals or being part in anthologies, and writing a whole book. The answer to this is a weird, tangled, messy, emotional, individual story for each of us poets. Yours may be different than mine,  and that’s OK.

the darker stems
from leaves
letting
go

I’m in the process of trying to let go of the concept of wanting to reach (many) people, of wanting to shift the thinking of (many) people. If I touch one, my work is done. But I want to be happy (don’t we all) about what I do and I’m most satisfied in the act of sorrow-free creation. Creating and swimming in the stream of ideas makes me happy. So when I’m having this, the rest might still be nagging and difficult to process. But you know, I’m doing what I can. And that’s always enough.

I struggled with how to sell my new book. I’m just doing now the most introverted thing that is in my abilities to do, that is: when you reached so far in reading this, you’re entered in a GIVEAWAY of three copies of my book.

• Just comment (anything) (on any platform) and you are in.
• I’m making the cut on 11/17/24.
• You can double your chance by sharing this with a friend by tagging them or sharing the link/post in your stories/highlights/feed, just tag me in it.

That’s it. I might post a reminder in the next days.

Always dedicated to share my writings and let them find you, and you, and maybe you, too.

With love, and always hugs,

Kati, pi & anne