Net Galley Challenge
Monday, April 11, 2011
On your feet
In The checklist manifesto, two doctors are just exchanging strange cases. One thing that doesnt escape the reader is the call for quick action.
Its all Mediterranean
with words like Almohad. I have never heard of Maimonides. So the mappy looking cover jacket of
Maimonides in his world book was attractive.
Maimonides in his world book was attractive.
Snail have teeth
is the first thing I learn in flipping through The sound of snail eating.
In the way the snail is reacting to the environment, even though it cant talk, you can already see the bond forming between the author and the snail.
In the way, the author Elizabeth Tova Bailey describes the motions of the snail,I can now imagine the world from a snail's point of view. at least in terms of magnitude. Say for example, if it were in the woods it would be lying on the floor with wooden chips its size, that would translate to me climbing over megalith stone tools my size. Last weekend at an Audubon migration celebration event, there was a question. Guess how much nectar would a hummingbird have if it were the size of a child? they had atleast 18 gallons of nectar. They said it needs 3 times its weight.
Somehow I never thought that all the slime it leaves on the trail has to be generated by itself. Even the dried flowers on the ground or shells of nuts though lie vastated, have to be all produced.
I was wondering what a pain it would be for such a tender body if has to travel on sharp bodies. the snail has won that battle too.
Picture Proof
In the way the snail is reacting to the environment, even though it cant talk, you can already see the bond forming between the author and the snail.
In the way, the author Elizabeth Tova Bailey describes the motions of the snail,I can now imagine the world from a snail's point of view. at least in terms of magnitude. Say for example, if it were in the woods it would be lying on the floor with wooden chips its size, that would translate to me climbing over megalith stone tools my size. Last weekend at an Audubon migration celebration event, there was a question. Guess how much nectar would a hummingbird have if it were the size of a child? they had atleast 18 gallons of nectar. They said it needs 3 times its weight.
Somehow I never thought that all the slime it leaves on the trail has to be generated by itself. Even the dried flowers on the ground or shells of nuts though lie vastated, have to be all produced.
I was wondering what a pain it would be for such a tender body if has to travel on sharp bodies. the snail has won that battle too.
Picture Proof
One way or another
When I saw To a mountain in Tibet, I wanted to read it for my love of mountains. Some day.
Looks like the reader is still towards the same destination through
In the shadow of the Buddha
Phurba
Looks like the reader is still towards the same destination through
In the shadow of the Buddha
Phurba
Meet up
I was intrigued by this book Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the wilderness of Modern America on Ishi
In the folds
of a comforter
theres a world
to make thought
the needle
and went through
to make
pleats
theres a world
to make thought
the needle
and went through
to make
pleats
Images and Allusions
Mattocks keeping time in
Forgotten Fountain
Alba is a nice image to paint.
Orpheus and Person from Porlockin Doubt
A plain Ordinary steel needle can float on pure water by Kay Ryan. Like she mentions in the interview, this poem is inspired from Ripley's Believe it or not.
Andre Breton
Jeunesse Doree in My Weariness of Epic Proportions
Forgotten Fountain
Alba is a nice image to paint.
Orpheus and Person from Porlockin Doubt
A plain Ordinary steel needle can float on pure water by Kay Ryan. Like she mentions in the interview, this poem is inspired from Ripley's Believe it or not.
Andre Breton
Jeunesse Doree in My Weariness of Epic Proportions
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Poetry today
Before starting Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern poetry, in order to get an idea of David Orr's work, without much difficulty, I landed on his article regarding poetry in O's magazine and his `The Politics of poetry' article on poetry foundation. The beginning of the latter article had me trifle amazed that he linked poetry and politics. It augurs well.
Jump into the book. The `personal' chapter is a sunny day for the general reader. At the end of it, the reader can tell how a poet can keep his/her person out of the poem and still make the reader think that he/she has been a confidante. Sharon Olds tell all poetry is a good example of how she distances herself from the whole scene, while still escaping its influence.
The `politics' chapter is certain to lose audience with its difficulty. A common affliction of prose and not just poetry. Poetry don't worry, you are fine, nothings wrong with your form.
That brings us to the form chapter. A turning point in the life of poetry which takes it back to its definition. This is a good place of discussion for all readers to find themselves in - questioning an art form, its purpose.
The rest of the chapters are like voices from a distant world. Like his articles, the idea and intentions of introducing general readers to poetry are great. But his choice of approach - birds eye view at the world of poetry, moved me a step down from liking the book. The author does say in the introduction that it is not an inclusive approach which does justify the end product's loose stucture but by degrees it moves away a lot. In the last chapter of getting personal with how 'water' poem of Philips Larkin changed his attitude towards poetry, he does get his bearings back as the messenger of poetry.
Using the author's metaphor of poetry as Belgium, once there you would like to see how it is different from your native country in detail and it suffices to know of any similarities just in name.
With regards to modernity of poems,
American life in poetry
Jump into the book. The `personal' chapter is a sunny day for the general reader. At the end of it, the reader can tell how a poet can keep his/her person out of the poem and still make the reader think that he/she has been a confidante. Sharon Olds tell all poetry is a good example of how she distances herself from the whole scene, while still escaping its influence.
The `politics' chapter is certain to lose audience with its difficulty. A common affliction of prose and not just poetry. Poetry don't worry, you are fine, nothings wrong with your form.
That brings us to the form chapter. A turning point in the life of poetry which takes it back to its definition. This is a good place of discussion for all readers to find themselves in - questioning an art form, its purpose.
The rest of the chapters are like voices from a distant world. Like his articles, the idea and intentions of introducing general readers to poetry are great. But his choice of approach - birds eye view at the world of poetry, moved me a step down from liking the book. The author does say in the introduction that it is not an inclusive approach which does justify the end product's loose stucture but by degrees it moves away a lot. In the last chapter of getting personal with how 'water' poem of Philips Larkin changed his attitude towards poetry, he does get his bearings back as the messenger of poetry.
Using the author's metaphor of poetry as Belgium, once there you would like to see how it is different from your native country in detail and it suffices to know of any similarities just in name.
With regards to modernity of poems,
American life in poetry
Last of the 100 day poets
TV Antennas on the terrace. Wind or rain affects the transmission quality.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Kathrine Varnes
Cin Salach
Sean Thomas Dougherty
John Gallaher
Susan Briante
Josh Corey
Laynie Browne
Pimone Triplett
Brenda Hillman
Jenny Browne
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Kathrine Varnes
Cin Salach
Sean Thomas Dougherty
John Gallaher
Susan Briante
Josh Corey
Laynie Browne
Pimone Triplett
Brenda Hillman
Jenny Browne
From a poem to many
Elizabeth Hughey Sunday houses the sunday house. More poems of her. who is Veronica who reappears in her poems?
Aporia. Monica de la Torre.
On Van Jordan. His poem MacNolia are from different characters POV.
Michele Batiste's poem and chapbook
Jean Marie Beaumont
Aporia. Monica de la Torre.
On Van Jordan. His poem MacNolia are from different characters POV.
Michele Batiste's poem and chapbook
Jean Marie Beaumont
Box of metaphors
Laura Mullen's Banyan poem makes the reader allocate a place for everything that thrives in its own way.
Hop scotch of prose and poetry
Maxine Hong Kingston, an accomplished author has recently published I love a broad margin to my Life, a free-verse memoir.
If you are wondering what is free verse…
Meghan O’ Rourke, a poet, wrote of a grief experience in ‘The Long Goodbye’ prose and then in ‘Once’ poetry form. Rourke was scared of poetry’s openness.
Why an artist wedded to a form loses grip on her medium during a turning point in life?
Growing up I was interested in essay form where Robert’s Frost ‘miles to go before I sleep’ stanza still crept in. After a poetry class, it seemed like I had said goodbyes to the only form of staking words that I knew.
Poetry undulates between the high of giving wings to your experience but of removing your stable ground too at the same time.
If you are wondering what is free verse…
Meghan O’ Rourke, a poet, wrote of a grief experience in ‘The Long Goodbye’ prose and then in ‘Once’ poetry form. Rourke was scared of poetry’s openness.
Why an artist wedded to a form loses grip on her medium during a turning point in life?
Growing up I was interested in essay form where Robert’s Frost ‘miles to go before I sleep’ stanza still crept in. After a poetry class, it seemed like I had said goodbyes to the only form of staking words that I knew.
Poetry undulates between the high of giving wings to your experience but of removing your stable ground too at the same time.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Different styles
Allison Joseph
In her poems, Joseph doesnt call us into them, to look at the end result. We are invited right from the beginning of the journey.
Ann Fisher Wirth with ecocritical thought.
Anne Waldman's essay on her journey of poetry.
In her poems, Joseph doesnt call us into them, to look at the end result. We are invited right from the beginning of the journey.
Ann Fisher Wirth with ecocritical thought.
Anne Waldman's essay on her journey of poetry.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rough waters
When I saw the book Venice: Pure City, I picked to read it but had to forgo with the plate being full. I make do with this video
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