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.
Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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
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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.
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