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BirdTalk: Conversations With Birds
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2002
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Candelaio: A New Stage Translation
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2014
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Parodies Lost
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The Worlds of Giordano Bruno: The Man Galileo Plagiarised
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2011
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Westport Soundings
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1994
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“I practice Dying--every night--
But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill.”
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But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill.”
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“from "After the Fall"
When Kennedy dropped from the sky
To honor the poet Frost, ...
So MacLeish spoke.."Not
To mention Robert Frost. For Frost,
Of course, is another matter, as he
Always was, spoke to the throng an the one
Hatless in October, but days before
Dallas and November.”
― Westport Soundings
When Kennedy dropped from the sky
To honor the poet Frost, ...
So MacLeish spoke.."Not
To mention Robert Frost. For Frost,
Of course, is another matter, as he
Always was, spoke to the throng an the one
Hatless in October, but days before
Dallas and November.”
― Westport Soundings
“I practice Dying--every night--
But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill.”
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But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill.”
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“Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.”
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“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; then to that twenty, add a hundred more; a thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, to make that thousand up a million. treble that million, and when that is done, let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun!”
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“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
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Welcome one, welcome all. I hereby invite you to Freedom and Liberty a group that remains free and lets true patriots (to their nation) join with mora ...more

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 read ...more

A club for anyone who loves astonomy, or just outer space in general.

This is where we will post our videos, and our songs.

Create polls and have people in the group vote on them! Only join this group if you don't mind getting an occasional poll invite. Each individual shou ...more

Now, I am not sure if this has been done before, so I apologise if this already exists (I'd be surprised if it hasn't). I wanted to make a group dedic ...more

We read books related to wildlands or wildlife, all genres, and meet every other month in Bozeman, MT. Our next book is Peter Mattheissen's book on cr ...more

...August 20, 2017 to September 19, 2017... I am a Dutch expat living in Italy since 2008 operating a bed and breakfast. I write about our experiences ...more
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My pleasure. I still have insights, and notes from real insights when teaching, BUT: I'm in my dotage now, rather like both our presidential candidates. I've had maybe 4,500 students at community colleges, and I'd say I learned from at least half of them--not all, simply because not enough time to. I believe most learned more from me than the reverse--why else was I paid? But it was/is surely a two-way street. I look forward to seeing some of your reviews. My computer has bugs, but seems to be functioning okay tonight...
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Thanks, Stephen, but I'm in my dotage now, rather like our presidential candidates? I've had maybe 4,500 students at community colleges, and I'd say I learned from at least half of them--not all, simply because not enough time to. I believe most learned more from me than the reverse--why else was I paid? But it was/is surely a two-way street. I look forward to seeing some of your reviews. My computer has bugs, but seems to be functioning okay tonight...


I'm interested in your book 'Birdtalk': how can I get it?"
Maurizio (matemati) wrote: "Ciao Alan!
I'm interested in your book 'Birdtalk': how can I get it?"
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Maurizio,
If you haven't found my Birdtalk at a good price, I can send one of the few I have here--though they charge lots for mail as I recall. I just sent my Bruno book to Italy, $15 US--nearly half the value of the book itslef. AP

I'm interested in your book 'Birdtalk': how can I get it?"
Maurizio (matemati) wrote: "Ciao Alan!
I'm interested in your book 'Birdtalk': how can I get it?"
Maurizio--Grazie tanto. Thanks for your interest. It's on amazon.co.uk. amazon.fr, amazon.de and amazon.com. There
are some great prices, used and I think even new. Sold a few in the UK
a couple weeks ago, I think bec of my email on the Dyfi ospreys, but I don't know. My website has some of my imitations and bird "conversations," including one, the Merlo recorded in Italy, on Radio Uno (2004). There's also a link on my website to the talk I gave in Milan, in Italian. See www.habitableworlds.com
For the birdsound click up top on Birdtalk. For the Italian talk, click under the book cover on the right. Alan


I've read very little Bukowski. Seems very sexist to me, in that San Francisco kind of way. And now, pretty dated?

Ps: i believe sooner or later i'll read the tale of Two cities by dickens....it just appeals my . I'm curious about it."
Two Cities may be Dickens' least amusing novel--I like Nicholas Nickelby, but it's really long, of course. And Dickens' Italian account is very good--it must also be in Italian?


Ps: i believe sooner or later i'll read the tale of Two cities by dickens....it just appeals my . I'm curious about it.

Austen non piace Mark Twain, pero... Ed Italiano no ha parole per
"silly" e "folly." Ma per carattere, insuperabile. E magari per un certo tipo di umorismo.

I read austen,but didn't work for me.i'll try and read the other ones you suggested to me. It's 11.30 pm here. Goodnight!

Beh, in lingua inglese ci sono molti scrittori che ti fanno ridere e pensare, da Chaucer e Shakespeare attraverso Donne di Andrew Marvell (nella sua prosa), attraverso Austen a Dickinson Twain e al gelo e Yeats a Saul Bellow.
