Shome Dasgupta's Blog, page 18
November 4, 2010
Howie Good, On Reading
"I wasn't a reader as a kid. I was way too restless to sit still and read. I did daydream a lot, though, making up stories in which I was generally the hero. I suppose all this imaginative activity contributed to my becoming a writer. It also -- and earlier -- contributed to my becoming a reader. I entered new and better daydreams through reading than I could find on TV or make up on my own. This isn't to suggest that reading for me was or is primarily an escape. It isn't. Rather, it's a kind of liberation from mental and physical contraints. You sit still while reading, but you can go anywhere in your head."
{ Howie Good is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as 23 print and digital poetry chapbooks.}
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cover me with words
Abayomi Animashaun's The Giving Of Pears
Eric Beeny's Snowing Fireflies
Matt Bell's How They Were Found
Kate Bernheimer's Horse, Flower, Bird
Paula Bomer's Baby And Other Stories
Mel Bosworth's Grease Stains, Kismet, And Material Wisdom
Ana Božičević's Stars Of The Night Commute
Blake Butler's Scorch Atlas
Jessie Carty's Paper House
Brian Evenson's Fugue State
Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart
Amelia Gray's Museum Of The Weird
Tim Hall's One Damn Thing After Another
Heather Hartley's Knock Knock
Shane Jones's Light Boxes
Bhanu Kapil's The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers
Michael Kimball's Dear Everybody
Amy King's I'm The Man Who Loves You
Tao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Kendra Grant Malone's Everything is Quiet
Joseph McElroy's Preparations For Search
Lydia Millet's Everyone's Pretty
Sawako Nakayasu's Texture Notes
Adam Robinson's Adam Robison And Other Poems
Caleb J. Ross's Charactered Pieces
Matthew Savoca's long love poem with descriptive title
J.A. Tyler's Inconceivable Wilson
William Walsh's Questionstruck
Mike Young's We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough
