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Richard Jeffrey Newman

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url

http://www.goodreads.com/profile/richardjnewman

gender

male

place of birth

New York, United States

website

http://www.richardjnewman.com

genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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books by Richard Jeffrey Newman

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avg rating: 4.33 | 6 ratings | 4 distinct works

	The Silence of Men (Paperback) by Richard Jeffrey Newman (goodreads author!) avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	A Bird In The Garden Of Angels: On the Life and Times and an Anthology of Rumi (Paperback) by John A. Moyne, Richard Jeffrey Newman avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	Selections from Saadi's Gulistan (Farsi Heritage Series) by Richard Jeffrey Newman (goodreads author!) avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	Selections from Saadi's Bustan (Paperback) by Saadi, Richard Jeffrey Newman avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2006	my rating:

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Richard's writing

The Silence Of Men (Poetry)

4 chapters — updated 04/21/2008 07:01AM

description: This is the title poem from my book The Silence Of Men. To read more sample poems from the book, visit my website, www.richardjnewman.com.

Richard is currently reading

	04/18 Richard gave to: The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback) by Helen Vendler bookshelves: currently-reading, literary-criticism, poetry	my rating:
	Richard said: "I have been dipping into this book on and off since I got it; it is, for me, definitely not something to be read in one sittig. " add a comment
	03/31 Richard is currently reading: She Says: Bilingual Edition (Paperback) by Venus Khoury-Ghata bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry	my rating:
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	03/30 Richard is currently reading: The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation (Hardcover) by Constantine P. Cavafy, Aliki Barnstone, Willis Barnstone bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry	my rating:
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Richard's recent updates (rss)

August 16

Richard made a comment in the group LITERATURE OF IRAN & THE DIASPORA—Iranian Literature as (a) World Literature topic:

Richard wrote: "Sam,

First, thanks for your kind words, and you are, of course, correct. (And I am sorry to be repl...more "

July 27

New comment on Richard's review of The Babies

Richard wrote: "That is a powerful image, and a powerful poem. I also don't have the book in front of me right now, ...more "

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July 18

Richard gave

to:
The Babies (Paperback)
by Sabrina Orah Mark (Goodreads author!)
bookshelves: poetry

my rating:

Richard said: "A wonderful book of prose poems. This is what I wrote on one of the pages in the book. I will make no claims that it is accurate, but it records part of my experience of the work: "Each perception contains every other possible perception and it'...more "

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June 21

Richard gave

to:
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (Paperback)
by Catherine Millet
bookshelves: memoir, sexuality

my rating:

read in June, 2008

Richard said: "I really liked this book, though I understand why people who picked it up expecting erotica of the Anais Nin sort, or people who expected the kind of self-involved confessional that often takes place in memoirs published in the US, would not have lik...more "

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June 17

Richard said "maybe" to attending the event: Hollywood Book Festival.
date: July 12, 2008 10:00AM
location: The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr # K30, Los Angeles, CA, United States
description: Presented in conjunction with Barnes & Noble Booksellers, the Hollywood Book Festival honors books that that deserve greater recognition from the film, television, game and multimedia communities. Over 30,000 attendees are expected at the day festival to enjoy author readings, book vendors, publishing panels, celebrity signings, clowns, live music and the ambiance of the Grove's town center.

Based in the capital of show business, the Hollywood Book Festival aims to (1) spotlight literatur...more

June 05

Richard made a comment in the group You Imagine—Welcome! Stop in to introduce yourself topic:

Richard wrote: "Hi All--

I am catching up on email from a while back and realized I joined but never got around ...more "

Richard made a comment in the group You Critiques—Welcome! Please introduce yourself here >>> topic:

Richard wrote: "Hi All--

I am catching up on email from a while back and realized I joined but never got around t...more "

Richard joined the You Critiques and Mermaid & Merman Readers groups.

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Richard's groups (recent posts)

Goodreads Feedback — 1051 members — last activity 12 minutes ago
This is a place to give feedback about Goodreads. Feature ideas, bugs, or any other suggestion for improvement. The Goodreads staff monitors this gr...more

¡ POETRY ! — 1040 members — last activity 33 minutes ago
No pretensions: just poetry.

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more

You Imagine — 344 members — last activity 9 hours, 17 min ago
Do you have a book inside you? Have you always wanted to write a book? Are you working on one? Come to discuss how to write not just any book, but a g...more

Mermaid & Merman Readers — 93 members — last activity 14 hours, 16 min ago
This is a group for people who love fantastic fiction, old myths, fairytales, stories of the sea and forgotten things. And of course mermaids. :)

Writerpedia — 362 members — last activity 15 hours, 12 min ago
This is a place to share knowledge. If you are writing and need to know something maybe someone here can give you an answer.

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