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Robinson Jeffers

The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1939-1962 by Tim Hunt


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hurt Hawksby Robinson Jeffers

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The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,
No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons.
He stands under the oak-bush and waits
The lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedom
And flies in a dream...

First reveiw of "Son of a Gun"

A really kind review of 'Son of a Gun' over at reviews by jessewave. She gave it a 4.5 and a thorough and thoughtful review. And, yes, she noticed that the state of Texas is one of the characters.

Thanks Wave!

MLR Authors at Love Romance Cafe

We are chatting about our books and ourselves at Love Romance Cafe today. Come on by!

by the way, I live in L.A. and it's not yet noon on a Saturday. One eye is still shut, I keep dozing off mid-sentence and I probably won't remember a word of this in a few hours.

A new old book is now available.

I now have a Smashwords author page

Where you may find "Of the Clan O'Grady" my very first m/m book that was published over six years ago and is now out of print.

The good news? Is I've actually had a sequel moldering away on my computer. Faeries, amoral and strange and running amock in New York City. I know. They are almost indistinguishable from the humans. And that's the point.

Smashwords also allows you to sample a percentage of the book, so check it out!

Son of a Gun is available NOW from MLR press!

Son of a Gun is now available at MLR Press!

978-1-60820-117-4 (print) $14.99
978-1-60820-118-1 (ebook) $6.99 Release DateApril 2010 Cover ArtistDeana C. Jamroz
The blurb:

Politics, drugs and secrets from the past collide in the town of Boerne Texas and end in a chase across the Devil's Backbone.

Stefan Sanchez number one reason to leave Texas was closeted deputy Chet Blain. When Stefan returns for the funeral of his best friend, he is confronted by painful memories, Chet's recriminations...

Chicago Blackhawks clinch Central Division Title for the ...

Chicago Blackhawks clinch Central Division Title for the first time in 17 years!

AND chocolate bunnies! It's been a good day.

The Complete Poems by Randall JarrellMy rating: 5 of 5 s...

The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell


My rating: 5 of 5 stars

"From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."

'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' World War II poem by Randall Jarrell

This week, a prolonged comment exchange with Josh Lanyon, brought me back to my 'home base' - i.e. 20th cent...

James Merrill, Collected Poems

Collected Poems by James Merrill


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
"Always the black swan moves on the lake; always
The blond child stands to gaze
As the tall emblem pivots and rides out
To the opposite side, always. The child upon
The bank, hands full of difficult marvels, stays
Forever to cry aloud
In anguish: I love the black swan."

with Merrill, I initially preferred his early book, "the Black Swan", probably a symptom of my own less sophisticated tastes. His later work is urbane and witty, and has surpr...

Well, the happy news is a new review by Literary Nymphs, ...

Well, the happy news is a new review by Literary Nymphs, who gave "No Rest for the Wicked" five nymphs and a lovely review

The unhappy news is the Droid is dead.

moment of silence, please.

Here is what I learned. + =

I feel like I'm stranded on a desert island without my Droidie.

Poor Benton (dog) freaked when a squirrel ran in front of him. I was yammering away on the phone whilst walking Benton. Benton lunged and the leash and my arm went one way, Droidie went the other and into possibly the o...

On behalf of the silent and sane majority

I called my Senators' offices today and thanked them.

I'm sure the nutcases threatening congressional members are far less representative of the American people than one might gather from Yahoo and Fox. And I think it's fairly obvious why frustrated and overpowered Republican Congress-people would say things like "the American people are angry" when they have no evidence to support that assertion. Well, except the crazy (and illegal) actions of a few psychos.

But I wanted both of my Senators...