Hard to believe, but there it is, Your Obituary Is Waiting, listed at #10 this morning in Amazon UK’s top-seller ranking of obituary books.
The complete Special Edition is available in the U.K. and in the U.S.
Which goes to show that Amazon’s rankings are, among other things, ridiculous. My “deformed sonnets” are poems not obituaries. But if British readers don’t complain, why should I? The book is also listed at #272 in its “American poetry” ranking. Which might indicate that Amazon UK hasn’t gone totally nuts—except that when I consider the lack of sales of even one copy of the book in either category both lists make as much sense as Donald Trump.
From the American poet Charles Plymell:
They should rank you #1 among morticians poets though Thomas Lynch might give you a run for your money. Good works by you in any event, they develop with re readings, resurrect themselves
That’s a ranking to savor. So thank you. The comparison never occurred to me because Thomas Lynch is not only no slouch as a poet, he’s an actual undertaker. So my thanks, too, for your sense of humor and your word play—both.