Listened to: The Night Circus: Erin Morgenstern — This is a repeat. I loved the book and enjoyed listening to it a couple of years ago. I revisited it on the morning walks early in September. I still love it. Ms. Morgenstern has been somewhat publicly working on her next books for several years. I hope …
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Arrival
It’s always night when I arrive. The little Embraer 145 lands and shudders to a heavily braked stop at the end of the runway. Then turns and taxis back toward the terminal. Where an air-stair is wheeled up to the side of the plane and we, the passengers, descend. The air is warm and damp, …
The Books of August
Books I read: The Anthologist — Nicholson Baker. I loved it. You won’t like it. Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense does it? It’s a short novel about a poet who is trying, and failing, to write the introduction to an anthology of rhyming poetry. He procrastinates, cleans his office, moons over his ex-girlfriend, helps a …
The Books of July
During July I didn’t get as much reading/listening done as I often do. Summer takes up a lot of reading time. Listened to: The Water Knife — Paolo Bacigalupi (Narration by Almarie Guerra — who’s just fine to listen to.) A violent and thrilling view of a near future filled with the conflicts of the New West- …
I Believe (after Ron Shelton)
I believe in the image, the line, the stanza, the iambic foot, the perfect word. Assonance, slant rhymes, that the formal forms still have a place in modern poetry. I believe that Shakespeare wrote the plays. I believe in a constitutional amendment outlawing poetry about poetry and the use of the word “suffuse.” I believe …