There are things in the woods. Paying attention is one of the fundamental tasks of being human being. Paying attention to what’s around us is a survival skill. Paying attention keeps us from being eaten by lions, helps us to find nuts and berries, and keeps track of our mates. But it is more, it is …
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The Books of October
There are not many books of October. It’s having been eaten alive (as was my brain) by the events surrounding Jim’s knee replacement. Books that I read: A House of My Own — Sandra Cisneros (2015) I read this in bits while waiting around in the hospital and in the first few days after we got …
The Books of September
Dogsbody, C.D. Wright on poetics, dressing well in the 20th century, Thurber does fairy tale, and an Irish debut that will floor you.
The Books of August
August was mostly a craft book month. Poetry being the craft of the moment. Books I read: How to Read a Poem and Fall In Love with Poetry — Edward Hirsch (1999) I’m not sure that this book will make anyone who isn’t already crushing on poetry fall in love. But if you are crushing on …
It’s Still a Big Damn Country
Recently I was looking for this picture of an artfully rusted steam engine that I took during a cross-country trip in 2009. Rather than dig through the many thousands of photographs on the back-up server, I searched through the series of blog entries titled It’s a Big Dam Country that I wrote while on that road …