A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Imprint

Printing
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The publisher's identifying statement in a book. It commonly gives a name and place of publication.

Detailed Definition
An imprint is the printed identification of a publisher, press, or publishing division, often accompanied by a place and date of publication. It may appear on the title page, copyright page, or both, and it can also refer to the publishing name itself. In small-press poetry, an imprint records the material circumstances of a book's making and connects the volume to a particular editorial community. Readers, collectors, and bibliographers use it to distinguish issues and trace editions.
Example
Example in poetry:
An imprint identifies the publisher or publishing division responsible for a book; The imprint page of a poetry collection may name a university press, an independent press, and the city of publication; A poet citing a book in a bibliography can use the imprint to identify which publisher issued that edition; Different imprints may publish different kinds of poetry, such as literary collections, translations, or children’s verse
Additional Notes
An "imprint" refers to the publishing information printed on a book's title page or copyright page, detailing the publisher's name, location, and date of publication. For textual scholars, bibliographers, and poetry historians, examining imprints provides vital historical context: it reveals the press networks, geographical origins, and regulatory environments under which a poetry collection was produced. Teaching students how to read an imprint helps them trace the dissemination of poetic movements, small-press revolutions, and clandestine samizdat literature. Related terms include colophon, copyright page, publisher, and pressmark.
Other Meanings of “Imprint”
Also Known As
Printer’s Imprint Publisher’s Imprint
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