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February 29, 2012
How to be a helpful book brownie--
P. S. Publishing, 2009
Books and Culture Book of the Year
Mercer, 2011
"beautiful and brilliant"
Greg Langley, TBRA
In pre-order
The Ferrol Sams Award
Mercer University Press
Here's a list of 36 things you can do to help writers you like in ways that are not difficult and do make a difference--ranging from buying a copy at your favorite indie to yacking or blogging about the book, from
Books and Culture Book of the Year
Mercer, 2011
"beautiful and brilliant"
Greg Langley, TBRA
In pre-order
The Ferrol Sams Award
Mercer University Press
Here's a list of 36 things you can do to help writers you like in ways that are not difficult and do make a difference--ranging from buying a copy at your favorite indie to yacking or blogging about the book, from
February 28, 2012
Frolic with Gala
Makoto Fujimura linked to Gala Bent yesterday on twitter, and last night I couldn't resist writing a poem inhabiting one of her vast landscapes. Today I'm saving a smidge of time to read in her blog. I would offer an enticing image but haven't asked permission--just go look!
February 27, 2012
Throne Sampler
Here are links to some of the poems from The Throne of Psyche that are on this site--probably I have posted some others, but these popped up easily. So here they are in one place, so you wander through them and have a sense of the book. At 109 pages, the book is rather long for a volume of poetry, so there's plenty left to discover.
Cover image: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
As for ordering a book
Cover image: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
As for ordering a book
February 26, 2012
Sampling Dale Favier's "Opening the World"
The cover features an oil-on-panel by Robin Weiss.
In our sometimes prosaic world, poetry needs all the favors and luck it can get. I have been reading Dale Favier's Opening the World from Jo Hemmant's Pindrop Press. Mid-way, I announce: I like it; I recommend it. The other side of the coin says you might like it; you could buy it and find out.
Unlike many people he looks at the world from a
In our sometimes prosaic world, poetry needs all the favors and luck it can get. I have been reading Dale Favier's Opening the World from Jo Hemmant's Pindrop Press. Mid-way, I announce: I like it; I recommend it. The other side of the coin says you might like it; you could buy it and find out.
Unlike many people he looks at the world from a
February 25, 2012
"Beauty, Outlaw of the Arts"
I, Ferrywoman, battled snow devils and bursts of snow to rescue child no. 3 from camp near Greenwich; when I arrived, my incredibly skinny boy of 14 was perched on the very heights of the ridiculous, sporting a plush bathrobe over his jeans and large pink and white rabbit ears worn over an orange Cooperstown High School knit cap. Evidently there had been an Easter egg hunt in the snow, and he
February 24, 2012
Sundry
PAPERWORK
Feeling a little weary after a kid-ferrying day, to be done again soon, and realizing that I simply must take some days off for disgusting things like taxes (not only like taxes but taxes--also other related things.) I like paperwork of a very particular kind, I fear.
FUTURE-BLOGGING-THOUGHTS
Meanwhile, I am pondering weaving something new into my blog. I have meant to transcribe my
Feeling a little weary after a kid-ferrying day, to be done again soon, and realizing that I simply must take some days off for disgusting things like taxes (not only like taxes but taxes--also other related things.) I like paperwork of a very particular kind, I fear.
FUTURE-BLOGGING-THOUGHTS
Meanwhile, I am pondering weaving something new into my blog. I have meant to transcribe my
February 22, 2012
Don't miss James Appleton's photographs of Icelandic volc...
Don't miss James Appleton's photographs of Icelandic volcano Fimmvörðuháls erupting against the Northern Lights--grand slide show.
February 21, 2012
Writing the past
WRITING THE TIME-PLACE
Writer Robert Freeman Wexler asked me for any tips on research, as he is planning a novel set in the past. Though I imagine he has quite as much common sense as I do, nevertheless I sent him a few thoughts and now post them here for any other interested parties:
Research/writing tips for stories with historical settings:
1. Think of time as a place you can enter.
Writer Robert Freeman Wexler asked me for any tips on research, as he is planning a novel set in the past. Though I imagine he has quite as much common sense as I do, nevertheless I sent him a few thoughts and now post them here for any other interested parties:
Research/writing tips for stories with historical settings:
1. Think of time as a place you can enter.
Timothy Barrett, papermaker
Mulberry leaf courtesy of Sarah Williams
of Brisbane, Australia and sxc.hu.
I love to meet people who follow a bright thread into the labyrinth of larger life and so transform themselves and their world.
"Look," he said, fingering the lushly textured paper, which dates to the year of Copernicus's birth, "you can see fine lines from the way the threads were sewn down on the mold. And here, if
of Brisbane, Australia and sxc.hu.
I love to meet people who follow a bright thread into the labyrinth of larger life and so transform themselves and their world.
"Look," he said, fingering the lushly textured paper, which dates to the year of Copernicus's birth, "you can see fine lines from the way the threads were sewn down on the mold. And here, if
February 20, 2012
Fairfax, sail away in peace--
Mid-ocean, thought lost, and talking ardently to the planet Venus: so much to astonish! What a creature is man... Go here.
