40th, Redux

Well, I had thought my blogging about my birthday bash was over, but my brother was not yet done....

See, my brother a few weeks prior to my birthday had inquired as to some of my favorite living poets. Thinking that my brother might be interested in reading some poetry, I leapt in with gusto: Jared Carter, Seamus Heaney, Davis McCombs, Pattiann Rogers, Ruth Padel, Ciaran Carson, etc.

As I reported last week, he had written to Pattiann Rogers and Ciaran Carson to obtain signed items (he knew I already had signed items from Carter and Heaney). Awesome, right?

He texted me this past week and wanted to stop by briefly (we live very close to each other, so stopping by is no large feat). Low and behold, he dropped off a UK edition of Ruth Padel's Darwin: A Life in Poems and a handwritten copy of the poem "Ola" from Davis McCombs's collection Dismal Rock.
As I told Gina, I think I'll turn 40 every year!