I just checked out the book. I'll have to count my pennies but it looks great!

Bravo!

Congratulations. I assume the "charleysax" reviewer on amazon is an actual third-party reviewer (unless you'd call yourself "goofy but unorthodox"). I solved the problem of getting favorable reviews by assembling a crack team of fictitious sock-puppet people to write reviews for me.

Scanner and Lou: Thank you!
Con: Fictitious sock puppet people have always been my biggest fans.

Unfortunately, sock puppets buy very few books.

Con: The ones I know are rolling in dough.

Very exciting news, Caroline! Congratulations! ~r

Wonderful Caroline, Congrats!

very cool and to be ordered ... congratulations.

Caroline, so great to see you back here today! I have missed your presence and creative posts...your book looks like one I'll be adding to my collection. Congratulations on having that published and hope to see some new posts from you if that can fit into your schedule!

Exciting, Caroline - almost as exciting as seeing you back here, where you belong! Your wit and good humor, matched only by your unpredictable creativity (is that redundant?) have been missed in these parts. A hearty congratulations on your book. I shall click it up post haste.

Really cool that you accomplished this. I have two poems in books. I won contest but I don't even remember what the book names were now. LOL

Hey Congrats and more. May it bring you more than you ever expected.

Congratulations Caroline! Here's to seeing more of your stuff, on OS or any other platform!

Caroline Hagood! Good to see you around!

It's been a long time since I've bought a book of poetry. Time to end that streak.

Glad to have you back. Good luck with your new book and school. R

Congrats, Caroline! Plan to check it out, along with so many others in and around this site.
Stay tuned for something I'm collaborating on right now, for the fall ...

Congratulations! What great news. Cant wait to read.

Congratulations, Caroline, now I can get a book that goes next to Keats and Yeats. Always good to see you. R

Joan, Rita, Chuck, Chiller, Cranky, Trudge, mypsyche: Thank you so much!

designanator: I've missed it here. I will certainly try to come up with something. Thanks for always reading.

Matt: Thanks so much! I don't know if it's redundant. Maybe some people's creativity is predictable--like they can always wake up and know it will be there. Mine's not like that; it's more like a stray cat that comes around at strange times.

My Heart on a String: Thanks. Let me know if you remember the names, and I'll take a look.

Algis: I certainly hope it does. Thank you.

Lea: Thank you. And keep me posted on that collaboration. What kind of project is it?

Thoth: Wow. I don't know if it can live up to that, but thank you!

Caroline! You crossed my mind the other day. I see you been up to good spreading your fine poetry around. Congrats!

Lunatics are the only people who seek my company. I have no doubt that your poetry is exquisite, full of dark chocolate cannoli cream and used razor blades.

Scarlett: Thanks for stopping by. And so sorry about your cat.

littlewillie: I see from visiting your blog that you still have it in you to write a very weird, very funny Santa story!

Congratulations, Caroline! That's exciting news, and it's good to see you 'round these parts.

1) glad you are alive and well!
2) can't wait to read Lunatic!

Bellwether: Thank you!

JP: I am alive and well. Hope you enjoy it.

It's in my cart, awaiting a companion book so I get free shipping. I've always loved your work. Nice to see you. You are one of the people here I hope will always be a constant, though we both take time off.

It's in my cart, awaiting a companion book so I get free shipping. I've always loved your work. Nice to see you. You are one of the people here I hope will always be a constant, though we both take time off.

Sirenita: thank you so much for buying the book! I feel the same way about your work.

Congratulations, Caroline! It might take me a while. but I'd love to check out your book, including those of a few other OSers (like chapmans). Very exciting to have your work in print - and motivating me to keep going!

This is such great news! And so very cool! Congrats!

Maria and Cathy: Thanks very much for your kind words!

Clapping!

How exciting I will check it out....and congratulations!

Anne and Scupper: thank you so much! I've just visited your blogs and had quite the time there.

WTG, Caroline!

dalriadane: Why, thank you!

Congratulations.

Thanks, Nick.

Yay! Congratulations!!!

congrats dearie. i'm so late, but extremely happy for you.

BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU! --
"I want to talk bowel movements/walk straight up to the next well-bred woman I see..." ---How often I have felt that way! Ms. Hagood's lines contain a weird truth of our civilization. Regardless of social or economic status, we tend toward self-deception on many levels, and love to put shiny veneer over walls full of mold. Ms. Hagood consistently THINKS and OBSERVES before she speaks, an inherent quality of being, which allows her poems to far surpass the effusions and out-right vanity of many contemporary poets.
Her poems are rare and beautiful gems like the poems of Emily Dickinson. We find concise clarity of expression and a wealth of well-formed ideas, which offer a comprehensive report on tenderness and responsibility, accuracy and illusion, and the vast perversion of language in the 21st century, where our limited vocabulary and instant digital delivery make worthwhile communication nearly impossible. She may compose poems on a laptop, but Ms. Hagood's ideas are hand-written, borne on her sensual tongue and lips, tactile, primal, personal, and above all, poetic.
(Her name says more than she ever expected: Hey! Good!
I care about every single line! I'm Caroline!)