Alex Luceli Jiménez's Blog
February 14, 2024
Notes on my book & February poems
Hello, Goodreads users. I thought I'd share a little post and appendix to my forthcoming self-published poetry collection, This Rambling Heart. It's been formatted on Medium and you can find it HERE.
Life is so quirky and interesting lately. It's so funny how you can feel like the world is ending one day, and then be perfectly fine the next day. Sometimes, I forget that I am a writer, but also, I am writing all the time. I wish that I had the attention span to work on revising my queer horror novel. But I currently do not, so I've just been writing more melodramatic poems. Sometimes, I wish that I weren't so melodramatic. It feels vulnerable and also kind of tacky. But I don't know how to be any other way.
I decided on the title for This Rambling Heart when I was 18 years old, before I had written a single poem in the collection. I think if I ever get another collection together, it might be called I wanted to be your god not your woman. So, I guess I will always be melodramatic.
Anyway, I've been drinking a lot of Diet Coke lately, and listening exclusively to Gracie Abrams. Also, I am getting my Phoebe Bridgers tattoo on March 9 in Santa Cruz. Big stuff coming ahead. I'll also be reading at the Monterey Poetry Festival again this year. I'll probably be reading new work, because I am super tired of all the sad poems in This Rambling Heart.
I really do just write my poems for myself, but I hope a person or two out there may enjoy them as well.
Life is so quirky and interesting lately. It's so funny how you can feel like the world is ending one day, and then be perfectly fine the next day. Sometimes, I forget that I am a writer, but also, I am writing all the time. I wish that I had the attention span to work on revising my queer horror novel. But I currently do not, so I've just been writing more melodramatic poems. Sometimes, I wish that I weren't so melodramatic. It feels vulnerable and also kind of tacky. But I don't know how to be any other way.
I decided on the title for This Rambling Heart when I was 18 years old, before I had written a single poem in the collection. I think if I ever get another collection together, it might be called I wanted to be your god not your woman. So, I guess I will always be melodramatic.
Anyway, I've been drinking a lot of Diet Coke lately, and listening exclusively to Gracie Abrams. Also, I am getting my Phoebe Bridgers tattoo on March 9 in Santa Cruz. Big stuff coming ahead. I'll also be reading at the Monterey Poetry Festival again this year. I'll probably be reading new work, because I am super tired of all the sad poems in This Rambling Heart.
I really do just write my poems for myself, but I hope a person or two out there may enjoy them as well.
