Cassell's Readable Readers

The 'White Cat' story in this book is included in John Ashbery's Collected French Translations Prose.
some poems by Wordsworth
Coming of Age - Ring the Bells by Mrs hawtrey
The Eagle's Nest story

What is the chisel

What is the hammer if
Language is the marble in which the poet carves

Hectic

Habitual does not enforce hectic as much as continuous or persistent.

Six months in a Syrian Monastery

Six months in a Syrian Monastery

Oswald Hutton Parry

cigars as glow-worms 

scorpion hunt

Lumpy moon

The Moon is seen as lemon by scientists. We are quick to pronounce a metaphor, but we are blocked after that since in our bubble map of linking two things with the is/or line, we only allow one. An example said a five year old kid -
Ms. teacher is kind (explaining the bubble maps that she learnt that day)
but she could be other things at the same time.

Wallace Stevens had Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Art and the Second world war

Style & Simplicity

Ted Kennedy Watson
Colorways

Rename

Other names for things

'Roll of inches' - Look around and rename all thins pedantic

Art and Appetite

Take an egg or orange by Thomas Eakins sounds like Archimedes "Give me a place to stand, I will move the Earth"
Exhibition art and appetite American painting
Chowder poem
English Cod
How they eat oranges in Havana
It is very ungraceful to eat an orange at table
Directions for Cookery



Peale food Paintings
Elizabeth Paxton
Mushroom Cheese biscuits 

Lapham Quarterly Spring 2014

Today I came across Lapham Quarterly at a colleague's desk. Its the spring 2014 issue of
Revolutions
The first few pages show a graphic timeline of revolutions across the world. It almost made me want to take up on the offer of keeping the book.
Stirrings on Occupy Wall Street on the logistics and how people decided to occupy makes you feel the throb and identify yourself as one of the carrier in the people microphone.
Ba Bulleh Shah reminds me of Bulleh ki jaana main koun, written by Bullah

Embellishment

In 'Wallace Stevens: Teaching the Anthology pieces', Helen Vendler says that Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock will warn them (readers) that he also fears the minimalist style, which can entail wearing only "white night-gowns".

If we can explore the anatomy of one room in  Hearst Castle

or even a Coffee Table Ashley Furniture 

where a modern one would look bare bones.

The embellishment coaxes one way of looking at it

different from how we would look at something new for the first time.

Is embellishment of an ordinary material, a way of lapel pressing

stashing memories of 

Emperor of the Icecream
On Emperor of the icecream

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Henry Beston

On Long Poem

To write a long poem

Death and Destiny

Dante through Hell
If we are going to the face the mound
of food we wasted in after life
and the karma we created
is it the inverse of this life?
What you didnt do and
should have done
haunts you for later
The time you need to live
exponentially falls down
with good deeds.

The search for origins in the twentieth-cenury long poem 
But Destiny, the span of life
- antonym of origin too
is our mystery.
Words have words as origin
They should end too in words
that they are replaced with
 
During Moth week, Moth is exalted as a food source for the bats
Bats as the destroyer of corn-ear and arrmy-worm moths
( Cheers for Bats and referenced in The End of Night by Paul Bogard - pg 147)

Sunflower from the pot, a fathers day gift
now gleams
The shell of a seed keeps the inside from drying
from sun

Greater Silences

So gay against the greater silences from Dying Words: Endangered Languages and what they have to tell us

The longing of the long poem

long poem

Blackbook of US Stamps

US poultry stamp and Australia poultry breeds stamp

Long poem

An anatomy of a long poem
 longpoemmagazine
I didnt realise that Hiawatha is a long poem. We had read the story of Hiawatha just before high school.
W G sebalds After Nature long poem
Homes for long poems
Short takes on long poems
Journals that accept long poems

Home Sweet Jerome

katie Lee

Hayden Carruth Collected Longer Poems

"Reason curls like a nut in wrinkled sleep" - Hayden Carruth in The asylum
North Winter
On Hayden
carruth
On Contra Mortem
Medical Humanities
Where do you find Nothing?
More carruth poems
 Vermont Long poem.

A man meets an eye. And then he meets  a bigger eye and then an even bigger eye.

Unstill Life

 "To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn’t
something you command.”  - Mark Rothko

Labor day True Birth Stories

labordaybook

Happy Clouds, Happy Trees

Bob Ross the happy painter
I recognize him from pbs.

What high school students do

just outside the class room
Muchos
Rehearse sentences in Spanish in a group of three
Juggle with green tennis balls
be in a room with metallic mixing bowls

face anxiety of entering a class late

Freedom

For me walking is freedom, it's a shortcut to adventure - John Rogers, This Other London.
It must be a poor life that achieves freedom from fear 

Two Cities

In The end of night, Paul Bogard says that

"Though some complain that old Paris has become a museum or even that it's dead, I think it anything but, and I think that especially at night. What's kept alive is the opportunity to add your story to those countless stories before, even to add to your own story if you have been here in the past. Because so much of the old city has been preserved, you can come back to Paris and the night you walked years ago will still be here."

Compare that with Rana Dasgupta's
"My father's failure to revisit Delhi home was only a particular example of a general condition: no one, not even the young, could revisit the Delhi they had come from because it no longer existed"
in Capital.

What movie?

We were going to watch Kahaani, a thriller. We started watching it last week, within a few minutes of which I had to read about the story. And then comes the main voice wanting a rhyme. It turned out to be 'Three pigs and a baby'. We enjoyed watching the movie, as it had a leeway of using coll anthromorphic dude language still employing animal characteristics to humor when the cow contractors keep taking lunch breaks to satisfy their four stomachs.

An archaelogist of morning

Charles Olson
A Guide to the Maximus poems of Charles Olson

Hindi and rhyme

Lately while watching Hindi movies, I have been stashing away dialogues in my head.

Ye umar Daba ke goli Chalane ki nahi ...Daba ke goli Khane ki hai..

Kitni pyaari baate karti hai... pyaari nahi kitni saari baate kart hai

Urdu and Hindi

Capital

Iltutmish

What is Tramping?

Tramping

And Short the season

I was not  sure if I read ' And Short the Season' by Max Kumine. When I came across Armillaria, 
I realised, I had stopped in the book right at this word, wanting to see a picture of what was being talked about.
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