The Insufferable Gaucho, title piece from the eponymous book.
Bolano uses Chinese in 'The Insufferable Gaucho' and 'Police Rat' like Greek and Latin.
Review1
Review2
Alvaro Rousselot's journey
Book Hampton
book blog
Net Galley Challenge
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Big spread
Laurie Colwin's book Home Cooking will catch the attention of the readers first with the cover.
Its a lady in white plain garment and a pan that covers all of her face with a wooden spoon in her left hand. Theres an urge to move the pan to see the cooks face, is it fear of cooking that makes the cook take this stance? On a quick look, the pan-face looks like the back of a ballerina's head.
A writer in the Kitchen beneath the title did it for me.
In her chapter on Nursery food,
Pastina and
Beef tea are new foods. a little into the chapter I realised that it was all about Comfort food.
More comfort food
International comfort foods
Virtual twin
Enough distraction...back to the book..
The book began with a description of her mini apartment with no place but will to cook.
Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant takes us back to our own cooking styles to recall what do we cook when we have to cook for ourself - I like simple vegetable mixes with curry spices in it, that need holding spatulas just in the beginning and are off on their own in cooking.
In How to fry Chicken, she brings on her I know the right way of doig it persona. Thinking about it, I can tell lots of vehement how not tos.
Feeding the Fussy with all the extents that food choices can go to, it becomes a mathematical problem as to how best keep all happy and fed. The only people left out are poor eaters.
Bloomer Loaf
I wont take her advice of frittering in How to Disguse vegetables.
The same old thing. Keeping up novelty is not an issue just at the wardrobe but in what you serve to your friends - your tried and tested dishes or new ones clueless about hospitality.
'Its an Argentine dish' - A failed attempt. I always have one black sheep like this on the rear burners.
Easter biscuits
Kitchen Horrors takes our attention to the adventure in cooking when it ends bad.
In the rest of the chapters, Colwin convinces us that cooking is not difficult.
Loads of recipes.
salt bagel
Its a lady in white plain garment and a pan that covers all of her face with a wooden spoon in her left hand. Theres an urge to move the pan to see the cooks face, is it fear of cooking that makes the cook take this stance? On a quick look, the pan-face looks like the back of a ballerina's head.
A writer in the Kitchen beneath the title did it for me.
In her chapter on Nursery food,
Pastina and
Beef tea are new foods. a little into the chapter I realised that it was all about Comfort food.
More comfort food
International comfort foods
Virtual twin
Enough distraction...back to the book..
The book began with a description of her mini apartment with no place but will to cook.
Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant takes us back to our own cooking styles to recall what do we cook when we have to cook for ourself - I like simple vegetable mixes with curry spices in it, that need holding spatulas just in the beginning and are off on their own in cooking.
In How to fry Chicken, she brings on her I know the right way of doig it persona. Thinking about it, I can tell lots of vehement how not tos.
Feeding the Fussy with all the extents that food choices can go to, it becomes a mathematical problem as to how best keep all happy and fed. The only people left out are poor eaters.
Bloomer Loaf
I wont take her advice of frittering in How to Disguse vegetables.
The same old thing. Keeping up novelty is not an issue just at the wardrobe but in what you serve to your friends - your tried and tested dishes or new ones clueless about hospitality.
'Its an Argentine dish' - A failed attempt. I always have one black sheep like this on the rear burners.
Easter biscuits
Kitchen Horrors takes our attention to the adventure in cooking when it ends bad.
In the rest of the chapters, Colwin convinces us that cooking is not difficult.
Loads of recipes.
salt bagel
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Self disbutlered
Roberto Bolano is a new author for me. I have my hands on a short story collection of his,The Insufferable Gaucho His other books too have engaging story lines.
The Insufferable Gaucho is a translation by Chris Andrews.
In the title piece, the repetitive symbol of rabbits taking the place of horses is intriguing. For a Gaucho, its impossible to be without a horse. Thinking from the mobility perspective, it must be equivalent to a house for a settled person. But a closer metaphor would be oxen for a farmer. As an agricultural land lying fallow, the erstwhile horse and the ubiquitous rabbits are all ghosts.
The Insufferable Gaucho is a translation by Chris Andrews.
In the title piece, the repetitive symbol of rabbits taking the place of horses is intriguing. For a Gaucho, its impossible to be without a horse. Thinking from the mobility perspective, it must be equivalent to a house for a settled person. But a closer metaphor would be oxen for a farmer. As an agricultural land lying fallow, the erstwhile horse and the ubiquitous rabbits are all ghosts.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Collected Poets
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A poet's life points to many other poets.
Robert Mezey's bio included in California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. His poems in The geography of home: California's poetry of place, The State of the Language, Collected Poems
Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish. His Tower of Ivory. A good bio of him.
Lilla Cabot Perry and her poems
Robert Mezey's bio included in California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. His poems in The geography of home: California's poetry of place, The State of the Language, Collected Poems
Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish. His Tower of Ivory. A good bio of him.
Lilla Cabot Perry and her poems
I go by ..
If someone gets your name wrong, should you correct them?
What if you like the new name?
What if you are addressed in public with the new name you like.
Theres going to be a deluge of funny poetry now. While that is in the works, let me point you to The book of Humorous verse. I stumbled upon it, while on a search for Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Samuel Amadon's back cover has a reference to EAR.
W S Gilbert is the first poet in The Book of Humorous verse.
What if you like the new name?
What if you are addressed in public with the new name you like.
Theres going to be a deluge of funny poetry now. While that is in the works, let me point you to The book of Humorous verse. I stumbled upon it, while on a search for Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Samuel Amadon's back cover has a reference to EAR.
W S Gilbert is the first poet in The Book of Humorous verse.
In a sea of things
Reading todays quota of poetry, Without discussion by Samuel Amadon, I wished there was a bio of the author. Contrast this to the days in high school when we had to memorise the bio of Hindi poets. We didnt mind the poems as our teacher made the poems stand out with their interpretation and rhyme helped too. But the bios, the details that took the biggest hit was their life time. With so many students remembering the wrong years, the poet might as well be satisfied with the long eternal life he/she wishes.
I see the cover jacket of Like a Sea and recognise it instantly. When I go through the poems, they dont ring a bell. This reminds me of shopworn cliche, that I came across in a children book review. Suddenly newspapers are bringing up new words like a slate. Charnel for the Japan's state.
Going back to the unrecognised poems, I read a few of them.Things stand out in his poems. With an idea and its opposite, he binds a whole realm into his poems.
I will keep rereading the poems and know them more.
I see the cover jacket of Like a Sea and recognise it instantly. When I go through the poems, they dont ring a bell. This reminds me of shopworn cliche, that I came across in a children book review. Suddenly newspapers are bringing up new words like a slate. Charnel for the Japan's state.
Going back to the unrecognised poems, I read a few of them.Things stand out in his poems. With an idea and its opposite, he binds a whole realm into his poems.
I will keep rereading the poems and know them more.
Mild storm
A three lane of everyday
We skirt the middle lane
now a lawned curb
Even a passing tumbleweed
claims ground without
pushing roots
Scarecrow is a man that
crows like to rapport with
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
What would I like to teach?
Virtues to teach children according to Natalia Ginzburg. Do you think about these same things or any other aspects?
Occupation
Yestderday while talking about doctors, I recalled a word called compounder. Now I cannot recall or simply dont know how a nurse is different from a compounder. By word, a Compounder would have to mix some medicines.
From a binding word like this we move onto its another meaning of a keep-out. Compound wall.
Like Robert Frost wonders in
Mending wall,
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out
But compund itself, while adding some things into the mix, its leaving out all the other things. Cliques
While at it, I was thinking of another occupation word, Peon.
They might have been done away with in the digital world.
From A widows story by Joyce Carol Oates, I expected something like the reflection in Mark Doty's Heavens coast.
Have you come across a book where you like all the writing and stop reading it cause you have made up your mind that you are going to have the book with you as long as the material world will allow and thus stall the reading. Is this what happens in relations too?
In some way, reading is not just about the moment of what has been published but about all the moments that happen to and make the writer. Mark Doty's blog lets me do just that. And soon I will get to the book too.
From a binding word like this we move onto its another meaning of a keep-out. Compound wall.
Like Robert Frost wonders in
Mending wall,
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out
But compund itself, while adding some things into the mix, its leaving out all the other things. Cliques
While at it, I was thinking of another occupation word, Peon.
They might have been done away with in the digital world.
From A widows story by Joyce Carol Oates, I expected something like the reflection in Mark Doty's Heavens coast.
Have you come across a book where you like all the writing and stop reading it cause you have made up your mind that you are going to have the book with you as long as the material world will allow and thus stall the reading. Is this what happens in relations too?
In some way, reading is not just about the moment of what has been published but about all the moments that happen to and make the writer. Mark Doty's blog lets me do just that. And soon I will get to the book too.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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