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Monday, January 9, 2012

Funny essays

I totally meant to do that in I was told there'd be cakes style.
I find neat jumps from topics in an essay like say from her playing a undercover fashion products cop to her thespian skills or lack of it.

More Jane books

Beter than the NPR review of it

New

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Natural philosophy. His how flags furl theory

7R genes and novelty

NPR interview

The author uses examples from recent past winners of Mac Arthur Genius award.

Tot tales

To strain starch from hot rice
mom put my sister
in a corner of the room
so she would be done
by the time my sis
crawled to her.

At six months,
I histed myself out of
a cradle using the ropes
connecting it to the ceiling.
That was the last of
suspended living.
I learnt of Faux painting from a friend yesterday. She also introduced me to Warli painting.

How to vagabond

Vagabonding
Links

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Mommity

I pick the car key from the table
At the door I realise its a battery
that needs to be recycled

I remove milk from the microwave
after adding sugar, I put the
plastic jar in to the microwave.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The fantastic rainy day book
Pictures and poetry

Colorful illustrations

Most stories in A Treasury of Favorite tales are new to me.
'How the Camel Got his Hump', 'How the Leopard Got his spots', 'The Elephant's Child', 'The cat that walked by Himself' are collected from Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories. I would have liked this mentioned. 'The Golden Goose' is from 'The Grimm Fairy tales'. The rest are from 'Aesops fables'.

Even the known one like 'The Hare and the Tortoise', 'The Fox and the Stork' are interesting with their makeover look. Imagine the stork with a pearl necklace.

The text embeds so well into the picture that it seems like a picture book than a text book. The amount of text in a line is like a free verse poem, making the reading smooth.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Pilgrimage
Understanding our need for novelty and change
What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite

I want to compare this book with 'The geography of bliss'.

The writing style is so 20 years ago, that it is hard to read. This book needs a makeover as ' new non fiction'.

Dog moon, Radio moon, Poetry moon

The book of men

In Learning to drive, I liked the ending

to let me go it alone. his back pressed

against all that emptiness



I liked Mine own Phil Levine for its 'to wait, to hold true/ to my vision, to speak in my own voice' and 'to be yourself in your own time, to stand up/ that poetry was precision, raw precision/ Truth and compassion: genius'.

I liked The rising of a pregnant mare too. Author Dorianne Laux's interview on the poem and the book.

I liked the Dog moon poem too. There's a bit on it in the above interview link. his poem can be used as a poetry exercise too with its 'dog moon, radio moon, panic moon....'

Another interview of the author.
Money shot