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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Travel collection




If there is one genre that does not make one guilty of reading it, its being in another place without all the expense.
Blair Braverman perfume hunting in Namibia.
Taxi Gourmet asks a cabbie in a country to drive her to their favourite eatery.
Kirsten Koza
Take your big trip
Abbie kozolchyk
Laura Fraser

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The health of poetry

A while ago, I tried to write towards “The Power of Poetry in the Modern World,” South Atlantic Review (SAMLA). For some reason I took the way of modern poetry. I hoped Norton's anthology would get me going. Then I thought the Coursera Modern poetry will lead me to something. A new look at it makes me think of writing(prose/poetry) and its role in the old and modern world.
Indiana review was looking for work for Dana Gioia issue. I came across his Can poetry matter? which points to two other essays Is Verse a dying technique? and  Who killed poetry?

Sunday, October 21, 2012




One-legged squats. Wow never heard of that. Anna Quindlen who thinks is not the exercise type of person, sets out to tell herself a different story and do a headstand. By the time she learnt how to, she found extra change and a pair of earrings. On the other end in Farmers insurance ad, a cat and what not is found on the roof.



In Bartholomew and the Oobleck, 'Having never made Oobleck before, the magicians do not know what Oobleck does or even what Oobleck looks like.'
Such was the case when I made 'Spiced honey Biscuits' from A feast of Ice and Fire. havng never made biscuits, I did not know how it should look when done. The cookies in the picture make me wonder if I should have added more honey. I overbaked them when I found them gooey. It was fun mixing the cold butter into the flour. I didnt believe that it needs 1 tbsp baking powder. 

The Sneetches story reminded me of Dunya Mikhail's poem.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

The tail of a mouse


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Li Young Lee writes that 'The real subject (of poetry) is silence. Looking him up I found The Childrens Hour. HWL says there is such a thing as The Childrens hour and refers to Bishop of Bingen and Mouse Tower. The Bishop is claimed to have said 'Hear the mice squeak' referring to the cries of the hungry he locked in the barn and set fire to'.
In Baby mouse series mentioned in

Baby mouse asks her brother 'want to play squeak?'


Thursday, October 18, 2012




The world will have its full harvest of poems - Jane Hirshfield.
Oryoki - Zen and Jane
Zen is not about belief. It’s more about what happens when belief is unfastened - Jane Hirshfield
Jean Valentine and silence. She quotes Emily Dickinson's The difference between despair
While Li young lee with his attachment to silence quotes EDs they worship an eclipse.
Burning bush

A writing as well as thought exercise - Filling in the gaps in myths.
If you have thought a flower could have more metaphors, try this an up-ended skirt.

In Alicia Ostriker's essay 'god the Mother' the last lines are a saying in Talmud: "It is not incumbent on you to finish the task. neither are you free to give it up". I am reminded of quote on karma from bhagavad gita.

With poetry, I feel I am in love. With prose, I feel I am in a marriage - Dunya Mikhail
So I discover poetry is am amoeba

When I wrote the blessing, I began, as any memoirist must, to move from anecdote to an unfolding narrative in time. - Gregory Orr in 'The Given' essay.



Tuesday, October 9, 2012

All things metaphor

Have you seen Fountain Hills, fountain? A friend's dad compared the canvas of the foam caused by the fountain, wind to a boat. Its the sail that triggered this comparision. Do you look at our impulse to run and compare what we see with what we already know.
Treasure trove of metaphor articles
Recently I meant to read an article about metaphor and poetry. Have to find that.
In December an essay on Modern poetry is due.