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    <about><![CDATA[I want, like, physical thrills.]]></about>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140027.Death_Tractates">Death Tractates (Wesleyan Poetry)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/80991.Brenda_Hillman">Brenda Hillman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:36:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the most insightful, accurate, and yet mystical account of grief I've ever read.  I heard Hillman read in the spring of 2000, and, in a discussion of her interest in gnosticism, she observed of her dead friend (the inspiration for this book), &quot;It's not that she's far away - it's that sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/This%20is%20the%20most%20insightful,%20accurate,%20and%20yet%20mystical%20account%20of%20grief%20I've%20ever%20read.%20%20I%20heard%20Hillman%20read%20in%20the%20spring%20of%202000,%20and,%20in%20a%20discussion%20of%20her%20interest%20in%20gnosticism,%20she%20observed%20of%20her%20dead%20friend%20(the%20inspiration%20for%20this%20book),%20%22It's%20not%20that%20she's%20far%20away%20-%20it's%20that%20she's%20%3Ci%3Eunavailable%3C%2Fi%3E.%22%20She%20gets%20it.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140024.Loose_Sugar">Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/80991.Brenda_Hillman">Brenda Hillman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:34:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The visual form of these poems (spacing, font, tabs, et cetera) is really innovative, and it stretched me as a writer at a time when, as my poetry professor put it, I kept submitting safe, &quot;polished little gold nugget poems&quot; at every workshop. It's good to change things up every so often. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/The%20visual%20form%20of%20these%20poems%20(spacing,%20font,%20tabs,%20et%20cetera)%20is%20really%20innovative,%20and%20it%20stretched%20me%20as%20a%20writer%20at%20a%20time%20when,%20as%20my%20poetry%20professor%20put%20it,%20I%20kept%20submitting%20safe,%20%22polished%20little%20gold%20nugget%20poems%22%20at%20every%20workshop.%20It's%20good%20to%20change%20things%20up%20every%20so%20often.%20Hillman%20is%20naughty,%20erudite,%20and%20adventurous%20here.%20%20Lovely!">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206472.What_the_Living_Do_Poems">What the Living Do: Poems (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15804.Marie_Howe">Marie Howe</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:31:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Howe tackles some rough issues in these poems: sexual abuse, AIDS, sibling rivalry, grief. I admire anyone who can find beauty in crap, and she does it here. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71642.New_and_Selected_Poems_Volume_One">New and Selected Poems: Volume One (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23988.Mary_Oliver">Mary Oliver</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:29:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I want someone to read &quot;The Ponds&quot; and &quot;When Death Comes&quot; at my funeral.<br/><br/>&quot;When it's over, I want to say: all my life<br/>I was a bride married to amazement.<br/>I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves">House of Leaves (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13974.Mark_Z_Danielewski">Mark Z. Danielewski</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:21:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've been told by at least two people that I should read it. Maybe when the dissertation's done...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:18:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[That's bizarre. I was making my profile, and I just added this book as one I've always meant to read - just before I looked you up on here. Hmm. You're weird. I think you may be a robot.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243388.Writing_the_Australian_Crawl">Writing the Australian Crawl (Poets on Poetry)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/40274.William_Edgar_Stafford">William Edgar Stafford</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:10:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If I could choose a third grandfather, I would pick William Stafford. This book gives you a chance to sit at his feet, before he asks you gently if you'd rather sit beside him while he tells you how everyone is a poet. Wise, warm, beautiful man.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9784.Women_in_Love">Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17623.D_H_Lawrence">D.H. Lawrence</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:08:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[“What I want is a strange conjunction with you—-[...] not meeting and mingling;-—you are quite right:—-but an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings:—-as the stars balance each other” (<em>WIL</em> 139).  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67071.Lady_Chatterley_s_Lover">Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17623.D_H_Lawrence">D.H. Lawrence</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:57:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lovely and sexy and yet spiritual.  Hard to do all that in one novel.]]></body>
        
    
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