much afoot

i keep meaning to update my blog, come up with a witty new design, etc etc

but life keeps getting in the way.

and i can't complain, because some of the things in the way are pretty fabulous...my new book, "A Bad Year for Journalists" has just been reviewed in The Globe & Mail (see a brief excerpt below) and the plan to turn the book into a theatre piece seems to be gaining speed. we have funding from the Toronto Arts Council & the Canada Council--hallelujah! the theatre project is a collaboration with Emily Pearlman, Bremner Duthie, and Craig Desson, and i can't wait to get to Toronto in October to get our plans in motion.

meanwhile, it is impressively hot in Paris, but there is a lot of cool jazz in the city to keep temperatures at bay (especially after the madness of the World Cup)

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"But a good year for poetry"
KATIA GRUBISIC (The Globe & Mail, Toronto, July 8/06)
BOOKS: POETRY

...Lisa Pasold's second collection, A Bad Year for Journalists, is steeped in homelessness. By turns sympathetic, critical, darkly funny and painstakingly lyrical [...] Pasold's colloquial, cynical squint is refreshing, disarming and often funny (reporters making up guidebook titles: "Let's Go Mogadishu"). ....In an increasingly hyperbolic idiom where everything is so conveniently unspeakable, Pasold speaks up, conveying more than impressions or exaggerations; these poems "explain what it was/ not what it was like."