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The Ascent to Truth

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Closed Casket (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #2)

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Sometimes an author is famous for a particular book, and sometimes when you read something else by that author, you realize why. Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, is a triumphant example of what this tries and fails to be, i.e. charmingly naive, pleasantly ...more
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I say of Christopher Manners, as Gauguin is supposed to have said, "I love him because he bleeds ink." It's nice to see someone being earnest about important things in iambics. You don't see it much since about 1880. It's easy to tell that the author ...more
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J. Alfred rated a book really liked it Institutes of the Christian Religion: Calvin's Own 'Essentials' Edition by John Calvin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have been attempting to be an intellectually serious Calvinist for a little more than a decade now, but I never got around to reading The Man Himself until Marilynne Robinson's essays convinced me it'd be worthwhile. And I'm here to tell you that i ...more
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In American Lit classes I have occasionally done a brief lesson or series that I call "Admirers of Abe" which runs through some of the great literature done on Lincoln. (Steal this idea: Whitman, Sandburg, Vatchel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters.) This le ...more
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The main argument of the book is that Christians need to have a 'hard center' but 'soft edges,' which will keep them from being culturally and emotionally aggressive on the one hand (hard edges) and also from being doctrinally or morally wishy-washy ...more
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Hardy, Robinson Jeffers and Robert Frost all have a kind of shared secret thesis informing all their work: Whether or not there's a God to reward a good life, it's certainly better to live a good life. Hardy hits this in a way that is wistful without ...more
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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 i 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 it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more