starts from a
yellow flower
with a green cloche
Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Imaginary Logic
Imaginary logic
The poet being a professor, it not a surprisr that one kind of subjects - fiction, criticism, rhetoric, poetry workshop class in 'The Ante' make a frequent appearance.
..On each pencil the teeth of every child
who ever held it had gnawed deep tracks...in 'The Elementary Principles of Rhetoric'
The poet is at his best with the endings like
..they dont get it - the kind of people
who epxect real smoke from a toy tractor.. in 'Feelings, by ashley Higgins'
'Winning' is a childhood sack race poem.
'The Previous Tenants' poem with its detective angle reminded me of Ted Kooser's 'Abandoned farmhouse'.
Freshet
Infralapsarian
Monday, September 26, 2011
The apple trees at Olema
Olema
I have learnt in geography class, that we cannot use sand dunes in a desert for locating ourselves. In 'Variations on a passage in Edward Abbey', Hass begins
A dune begins with an obstacle.
.... Its thus a dune is formed
Now I know the scientific how-to followed by the dunes and the inevitable movement to another location preventing them from serving as landmarks.
Another how-to, what a body can expect when submitted to the medical examiner is followed up with a reality of the relegated funeral business.
The eucalyptus casts a feathered shadow
in 'Concerning the afterlife, the Indians of central California had only the dimmest notions'.
sokkaram by a lawyer
In songs to survive the summer, the poet calls the dog days, unvaried by accident and in Not going to New York: A letter, the letter rhymes by accident.
Paschal lamb poem
Tall windows poem
duck blind poem with an ending in motion
A story about the body poem
Ceanothus
Puerto Escondido
Cuernavaca
Kathe Kollwitz
Ponge
Athabascan
Mimulus
Olema
I have learnt in geography class, that we cannot use sand dunes in a desert for locating ourselves. In 'Variations on a passage in Edward Abbey', Hass begins
A dune begins with an obstacle.
.... Its thus a dune is formed
Now I know the scientific how-to followed by the dunes and the inevitable movement to another location preventing them from serving as landmarks.
Another how-to, what a body can expect when submitted to the medical examiner is followed up with a reality of the relegated funeral business.
The eucalyptus casts a feathered shadow
in 'Concerning the afterlife, the Indians of central California had only the dimmest notions'.
sokkaram by a lawyer
In songs to survive the summer, the poet calls the dog days, unvaried by accident and in Not going to New York: A letter, the letter rhymes by accident.
Paschal lamb poem
Tall windows poem
duck blind poem with an ending in motion
A story about the body poem
Ceanothus
Puerto Escondido
Cuernavaca
Kathe Kollwitz
Ponge
Athabascan
Mimulus
Thursday, September 22, 2011
French food and literature
Balzac's Omelette
Omelette as a work of art reminds me of this Omelette woman painting. Looking at the old lady seated and cooking, it also reminds me of my grandmother and her kitchen. In their days, the stove occupied very little space. In a generation, the cooking space has changed so much. Imagine how different the culinary scene would have been in the times of Balzac. We are talking about 1800s. Balzac was a French Novelist and a playwright.
the author takes us two centuries into the past into the streets of Paris as well as into the books of Balzac, to take a look at the elite parties as well as meagre broth households. She takes us to a time when cheese was poor man's food and Paris saw the rise of restaurants. Lunch wasnt always an important meal(pg 58).Having Russian service from 'blood, Bones and Butter' fresh in my mind, it was insightful to contrast the French service. the author mentions that the art of decorating flowers on dining tables came from Russia.This is the strongest part of the book where the readers are grabbed in easily.
The author shows with all the examples of sketches of characters in Balzac's books, how Balzac was the first to use food in his novels as a window to a character, their class in society. The author also contrasts Balzac's style with writers like Zola, Proust and others to show how the rest treated food differently in their books. The first chapter is about Balzac's relation with food. He went great lengths to find the food he had his mind upon. While most chapters held me in curiosity, 'The misers and the food worshippers' read like a boring compilation of characters and their relationship with food.
There are really some lines about how to make 'Balzac's omelette'.
The last but one line about Proust on 'a fish whose body with its numberless vertebrae, its blue and pink veins, had been constructed by nature, but according to an architectural plan, like a polychrome cathedral of the deep' is a look at how different the world seems to a person who sees with a sense of hunger.
While Adam could have 15 dozen oysters, Balzac too could have over 100 oysters and more after finishig a novel, working at it day and night.
Balzac used restaurants to move his plots forward(pg 66).
French vs Russian service
Laclos
Pantagruelism
Olivet Cheeses
Airport novels
brace of partridge
Comice Pears
embonpoint
Craquelin
Vouvray
regrttiers - traders who buy leftovers.
Trotter
white pudding
Black pudding
Lucien Rubempre
Oysters from Ostend
totted up -sum up
Hundred days
pate from Strasbourg
hams from Mayence
Gray patridge
Blanquette
Fricandeau
a la Pluche
a la Barigoule
a la Robert
Brandade
Jabot
cutlets a la Soubise
Chicken a la Marengo
Machicolation
Poussin's landscape on Sevres ware
collation -light meal permitted on fast days
balzac never saw a great chef at work, there is a notable absence of great culinary artists in his novels(pg 87).
fashion for decorating tables with flowers came from Russia(pg 89).
serviette - napkin
au sucre
Marron glaces
orgeat
Jugged hare
sea pie
specious - having a false look of truth
Grisette
Mother sauce - I heard of it first from Robert Irvine on Restaurant Impossible
making of soy sauce
Foods named after people
Lake Leman
Garret room
Peignoir
Collops
Omelette as a work of art reminds me of this Omelette woman painting. Looking at the old lady seated and cooking, it also reminds me of my grandmother and her kitchen. In their days, the stove occupied very little space. In a generation, the cooking space has changed so much. Imagine how different the culinary scene would have been in the times of Balzac. We are talking about 1800s. Balzac was a French Novelist and a playwright.
the author takes us two centuries into the past into the streets of Paris as well as into the books of Balzac, to take a look at the elite parties as well as meagre broth households. She takes us to a time when cheese was poor man's food and Paris saw the rise of restaurants. Lunch wasnt always an important meal(pg 58).Having Russian service from 'blood, Bones and Butter' fresh in my mind, it was insightful to contrast the French service. the author mentions that the art of decorating flowers on dining tables came from Russia.This is the strongest part of the book where the readers are grabbed in easily.
The author shows with all the examples of sketches of characters in Balzac's books, how Balzac was the first to use food in his novels as a window to a character, their class in society. The author also contrasts Balzac's style with writers like Zola, Proust and others to show how the rest treated food differently in their books. The first chapter is about Balzac's relation with food. He went great lengths to find the food he had his mind upon. While most chapters held me in curiosity, 'The misers and the food worshippers' read like a boring compilation of characters and their relationship with food.
There are really some lines about how to make 'Balzac's omelette'.
The last but one line about Proust on 'a fish whose body with its numberless vertebrae, its blue and pink veins, had been constructed by nature, but according to an architectural plan, like a polychrome cathedral of the deep' is a look at how different the world seems to a person who sees with a sense of hunger.
While Adam could have 15 dozen oysters, Balzac too could have over 100 oysters and more after finishig a novel, working at it day and night.
Balzac used restaurants to move his plots forward(pg 66).
French vs Russian service
Laclos
Pantagruelism
Olivet Cheeses
Airport novels
brace of partridge
Comice Pears
embonpoint
Craquelin
Vouvray
regrttiers - traders who buy leftovers.
Trotter
white pudding
Black pudding
Lucien Rubempre
Oysters from Ostend
totted up -sum up
Hundred days
pate from Strasbourg
hams from Mayence
Gray patridge
Blanquette
Fricandeau
a la Pluche
a la Barigoule
a la Robert
Brandade
Jabot
cutlets a la Soubise
Chicken a la Marengo
Machicolation
Poussin's landscape on Sevres ware
collation -light meal permitted on fast days
balzac never saw a great chef at work, there is a notable absence of great culinary artists in his novels(pg 87).
fashion for decorating tables with flowers came from Russia(pg 89).
serviette - napkin
au sucre
Marron glaces
orgeat
Jugged hare
sea pie
specious - having a false look of truth
Grisette
Mother sauce - I heard of it first from Robert Irvine on Restaurant Impossible
making of soy sauce
Foods named after people
Lake Leman
Garret room
Peignoir
Collops
Twentieth century Latin american poetry
percale in Sweet Land
Duenna
Halberd
Jarabe
Viaticum
Malinche
Sylph
This Vicente Huidobro poem gets electric from 'plants glances like trees'.
The Disappearance of Luisa Porto
That young black girl fulo
Looking for poetry
poem
love is so short. I like the ending too of this Neruda poem.
The Emptiness of man and 'the man from up-country talking' by Joao, both deal with the universal 'man' and are themes easy to grasp.
percale in Sweet Land
Duenna
Halberd
Jarabe
Viaticum
Malinche
Sylph
This Vicente Huidobro poem gets electric from 'plants glances like trees'.
The Disappearance of Luisa Porto
That young black girl fulo
Looking for poetry
poem
love is so short. I like the ending too of this Neruda poem.
The Emptiness of man and 'the man from up-country talking' by Joao, both deal with the universal 'man' and are themes easy to grasp.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
I have found some Joseph Campbell's Primitive Mythology and Creative Mythology books. Sukhavati is available in DVD.
What triggers a desire for icecream?
After buying groceries, as I was waiting outside the store, I saw a mom eating her 'butter pecan or chocolate chip cookie dough' icecream in a cone followed by her kids eating chocolate icecreams. That prompted us to walk into 'Water and Ice' and down the butter pecan icecream. Now I know where an elderly person bought the cone which diminished to a tip as he entered the grocery store. While we were learning what a 'cake cone' was, which is nothing compared to a waffle cone, my eyes fell on bee pollen, an ingredient in a healthy smoothie.
Folktales
I have started reading Irish folktales. The abundance of angels must not be a folktale as I read an article by Celia Beresford - 'Angels of Ireland' in Vol no.194, Sep 2011 Java magazine.
I have my hands on Encyclopedia of Urban legends. Once my roomate told me of snake pet sizing pet owner story. When I passed it onto another friend, she told me that its an urban legend. I try to recall any that I know. As a kid, I studied in a hostel. We were always scared of ghosts in the night. As it goes with the preoccupation with ghosts, there was an antidote to this too. It seems there was a village which was haunted. One clever person wrote 'repu raa' which in Telugu means 'visit tomorrow'. Then the whole village resorted to this.
What about a mom putting her dark daughter in a washing machine so that she would turn up fair?
Aids being injected in public places by pin prick attacks
In the fiction world, a poem where a man points to himself when he is told of a kid without a face.
10.26.11
Do you remember reading of a student who wrote 'this is courage' as an answer to an essay to Harvard as personal statement? Well, what do we know. Its an urban legend.
10.28.11
Now theres a500 word limit on the college essay but nothing on the lower side.
We heard of The Graveyard wager as kids.
11.2.11
We have read this The Homemade Lie Detector legend as a story.
Today I got an email from a fellow hiker that she relocated to 'Down Under'. With a reference to Australia in the 'Urban Legends' book as Down Under, the subject line makes sense.
A while ago, my colleague talked about this The Lawnmower accident. What a law legend?
cultural logic must be what makes us believe that dentists are prone to suicide.
I have my hands on Encyclopedia of Urban legends. Once my roomate told me of snake pet sizing pet owner story. When I passed it onto another friend, she told me that its an urban legend. I try to recall any that I know. As a kid, I studied in a hostel. We were always scared of ghosts in the night. As it goes with the preoccupation with ghosts, there was an antidote to this too. It seems there was a village which was haunted. One clever person wrote 'repu raa' which in Telugu means 'visit tomorrow'. Then the whole village resorted to this.
What about a mom putting her dark daughter in a washing machine so that she would turn up fair?
Aids being injected in public places by pin prick attacks
In the fiction world, a poem where a man points to himself when he is told of a kid without a face.
10.26.11
Do you remember reading of a student who wrote 'this is courage' as an answer to an essay to Harvard as personal statement? Well, what do we know. Its an urban legend.
10.28.11
Now theres a500 word limit on the college essay but nothing on the lower side.
We heard of The Graveyard wager as kids.
11.2.11
We have read this The Homemade Lie Detector legend as a story.
Today I got an email from a fellow hiker that she relocated to 'Down Under'. With a reference to Australia in the 'Urban Legends' book as Down Under, the subject line makes sense.
A while ago, my colleague talked about this The Lawnmower accident. What a law legend?
cultural logic must be what makes us believe that dentists are prone to suicide.
Shooting in the dark
Yesterday we were talking about Arjuna's skill of Shabd Bhedi. He could shoot by hearing a sound. I was then reminded how arrows could do so many things in the epic Mahabharata. You could make it rain or make a deathbed of them. It was this possibilities that made us regular watchers of the TV programme.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Blood, Bones and Butter
..sweet, starchy peas in their own canoe of crisp, watery and almost sugary pod - Gabrielle Hamilton
The fourth wall
close the barn doors
Plumber/utility candles
Long necks
Magret
Apple mousse
The midwestern requirement of well done meat and well done fish....
- GH
Manti
Melamine plates
Rose wine
Reading the elaborate descriptions of past happenings, I wondered how this book was written. In chapter 5 Gabrielle reveals that she 'wrote endlessly in her journals'.
What you are the main cook at a camp, and a camper's father is Mark Bittman? Bite that.
..it takes a lobster more than fifteen years to grow to three pounds. grown men die harvesting them. - GH
saganaki
Taramasalata
Skordalia
..sweet, starchy peas in their own canoe of crisp, watery and almost sugary pod - Gabrielle Hamilton
The fourth wall
close the barn doors
Plumber/utility candles
Long necks
Magret
Apple mousse
The midwestern requirement of well done meat and well done fish....
- GH
Manti
Melamine plates
Rose wine
Reading the elaborate descriptions of past happenings, I wondered how this book was written. In chapter 5 Gabrielle reveals that she 'wrote endlessly in her journals'.
What you are the main cook at a camp, and a camper's father is Mark Bittman? Bite that.
..it takes a lobster more than fifteen years to grow to three pounds. grown men die harvesting them. - GH
saganaki
Taramasalata
Skordalia
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Lure of Long distance
".. a longing that comes out most forcefully in the language of a cild." - Robin Harvie.
".. a longing that comes out most forcefully in the language of a cild." - Robin Harvie.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Powder to stop spreading
A swirl of the
matchead
into a box of Eyetex
A blemishless dot
on an infants
temple
to ward off evil
9.11.11
***********************
She lit a match to warm the tip of her black wax pencil
************************
1.31.12
In India mothers put kohl on babies eyes to ward off blindness.
- Candia McWilliam, What to look for in winter.
matchead
into a box of Eyetex
A blemishless dot
on an infants
temple
to ward off evil
9.11.11
***********************
She lit a match to warm the tip of her black wax pencil
************************
1.31.12
In India mothers put kohl on babies eyes to ward off blindness.
- Candia McWilliam, What to look for in winter.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Blue
In the dream
I saw a blue bird
with a long tail split
in two
the tail feathers had designs
like a silk cloth, maroon, gold
Another sticky animal
like in the 'gods must be crazy'
blue
I was warned not to have
anything to do with it.
We were close, I shoved
a camera into its mouth
Outside the office door
a blue- green beetle
lies dead on its back
I saw a blue bird
with a long tail split
in two
the tail feathers had designs
like a silk cloth, maroon, gold
Another sticky animal
like in the 'gods must be crazy'
blue
I was warned not to have
anything to do with it.
We were close, I shoved
a camera into its mouth
Outside the office door
a blue- green beetle
lies dead on its back
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Kids
A small girl follows a mall cop in black and yellow dress.
ten steps away from family she wonders around with hands around her waist.
Another small girl dances by herself, looking into the mirror.
Book news
Recently my friend saw the Dorian gray movie and asked me if I read it. I read it in college, so long ago, that I could use another read. But time only permits flipping The picture of Dorian Gray.
Trees, a photo book with different kinds of rees. let me add a rescent observation at Crowne Plaza in Tempe. There was a row of what seemed like salt cedars with reall broad trunks. They have been sawed of allover. Logs stick ing out vertically. It was an antithesis of a tree with a canopy arrested to nothing.
Trees, a photo book with different kinds of rees. let me add a rescent observation at Crowne Plaza in Tempe. There was a row of what seemed like salt cedars with reall broad trunks. They have been sawed of allover. Logs stick ing out vertically. It was an antithesis of a tree with a canopy arrested to nothing.
Fan book
A Jane Austen Education
Jane Austen;s fans now and then come up with books. As I kept reading about he author finding Austen's characters boring, he got his own book to such a slow pace that the car halted for ever.
Jane Austen;s fans now and then come up with books. As I kept reading about he author finding Austen's characters boring, he got his own book to such a slow pace that the car halted for ever.
Natalie Haynes
A versatile author.
The ancient guide to modern life
In this book, I liked the quote by Trevor J saunders
Spartans managed a diarchy - Natalie Haynes.
Prytany
The ancient guide to modern life
In this book, I liked the quote by Trevor J saunders
Spartans managed a diarchy - Natalie Haynes.
Prytany
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