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February 20, 2014
Making a list
preparatory sketch, Clive Hicks-Jenkins forGlimmerglass
If you are a blogger or a Goodreads-Amazon-Powell's-etc. reviewer who likes to write about books and would like to be on the mailing list to receive a press release for Glimmerglass before it appears in early fall, please leave me a note. If you've already said elsewhere that you would like to be on a list, thank you again; I have your
If you are a blogger or a Goodreads-Amazon-Powell's-etc. reviewer who likes to write about books and would like to be on the mailing list to receive a press release for Glimmerglass before it appears in early fall, please leave me a note. If you've already said elsewhere that you would like to be on a list, thank you again; I have your
February 19, 2014
"I am a Ukrainian"
My calling is to make poems and stories out of air and syllables, but today I leave you with someone else's syllables--words that are heartfelt and strong and beg us to help. They remind us in a time of eroded freedoms that freedom is precious and easy to lose. May this lovely, brave young woman and her fellow Ukrainians--may we all--flourish in a world where the barbarians lose their powers.
February 17, 2014
Define "poem"--
Image courtesy of sxc.hu and Ann-Kathrin Rehse of Germany.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. -Frost
Thanks to various friends in various places online who have expressed interest in the memory palace posts. Perhaps I'll do a few more... This little post is in response to a comment, and is a 5-minute stab at defining the word poem. (It might have been
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. -Frost
Thanks to various friends in various places online who have expressed interest in the memory palace posts. Perhaps I'll do a few more... This little post is in response to a comment, and is a 5-minute stab at defining the word poem. (It might have been
February 16, 2014
Memory palace, no. 4
Courtesy of sxc.hu and Fran Priestly of the U. S. That's a photograph
of her sister reading poetry--it could have been Yeats she read,
but, no, she is reading Tennyson. Of course, Yeats read Tennyson...
I've been busy with Glimmerglass edits, The Book of the Red King final polishes (long delayed), the always-tedious author questionnaire, and a bothersome cold, but today I am going to
of her sister reading poetry--it could have been Yeats she read,
but, no, she is reading Tennyson. Of course, Yeats read Tennyson...
I've been busy with Glimmerglass edits, The Book of the Red King final polishes (long delayed), the always-tedious author questionnaire, and a bothersome cold, but today I am going to
February 14, 2014
Glimmerglass
Please hop here to see the start of my page for Glimmerglass.
The novel is forthcoming in the fall from Mercer University Press, with art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales and design by Burt and Burt.
The novel is forthcoming in the fall from Mercer University Press, with art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales and design by Burt and Burt.
February 12, 2014
Winterspell
Portal detail from a sculpture, WCU North Carolina Glass
2012--alas, not sure which one this was...
Cheery, agile little bug of a bulldozer starts jingling outside my bedroom window around 6 a.m., cutting down snow walls and thrusting them up-up-up into a dump truck. This is the way of the No'th. I object, but the unremitting cheerfulness continues.
The pyramid glowing in the fireplace
2012--alas, not sure which one this was...
Cheery, agile little bug of a bulldozer starts jingling outside my bedroom window around 6 a.m., cutting down snow walls and thrusting them up-up-up into a dump truck. This is the way of the No'th. I object, but the unremitting cheerfulness continues.
The pyramid glowing in the fireplace
February 11, 2014
The man in whitey-tighties--
Source: WHDH, New York Daily News
Looking
Let's talk some more about the man in whitey-tighties on the Wellesley campus. Because I somehow don't think that we've been talking about the right things when we talk about that man, created by Tony Matelli, maker of hyper-realistic sculptures.
You know, I'm glad when people are talking about art in any of its forms, but sometimes that
Looking
Let's talk some more about the man in whitey-tighties on the Wellesley campus. Because I somehow don't think that we've been talking about the right things when we talk about that man, created by Tony Matelli, maker of hyper-realistic sculptures.
You know, I'm glad when people are talking about art in any of its forms, but sometimes that
February 10, 2014
Memory Palace, no. 3
Image courtesy of Michaela Kobyakov of Leonding,
Austria and sxc.hu
I find your project to memorize poetry and then write about it intellectually stimulating, lovely, and touching. You may be right about only poets wanting to read about poetry, but a huge percentage of people are poets who just don't write poetry. If they have the ability to be moved, they can and do love poetry.
--Philip Lee
Austria and sxc.hu
I find your project to memorize poetry and then write about it intellectually stimulating, lovely, and touching. You may be right about only poets wanting to read about poetry, but a huge percentage of people are poets who just don't write poetry. If they have the ability to be moved, they can and do love poetry.
--Philip Lee
February 9, 2014
Memory Palace, no. 2
Photo courtesy of Micha Sankowski of Warsaw, Poland
and sxc.hu
Wrestling tournaments and minor disasters have temporarily delayed my poems-by-heart project. So I've decided to shift to one a week, reciting all I've learned so far every day to review. The first poem I learned was this one, an old favorite by Gerard Manley Hopkins. I knew it fairly well already...
Spring and Fall
to a
and sxc.hu
Wrestling tournaments and minor disasters have temporarily delayed my poems-by-heart project. So I've decided to shift to one a week, reciting all I've learned so far every day to review. The first poem I learned was this one, an old favorite by Gerard Manley Hopkins. I knew it fairly well already...
Spring and Fall
to a
February 5, 2014
Memory Palace frolics--
Courtesy of Eva Schusterof Dresden, Germanyand sxc.hu--"vaults incolour from the palaceAlcazar in Seville."
I've decided to work my brain a little harder, now that I've had such a big birthday and am arrowing toward twilight on planet Earth. After all, when I'm writing, I'm having the sheer mad joy of making things up, and when I'm reading--when lucky in my choices--I am reveling in somebody
I've decided to work my brain a little harder, now that I've had such a big birthday and am arrowing toward twilight on planet Earth. After all, when I'm writing, I'm having the sheer mad joy of making things up, and when I'm reading--when lucky in my choices--I am reveling in somebody
