Net Galley Challenge
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Day 3 - Joseph Brodsky
Poem: Autumn in Norenskaia
I thought I hadnt read Joseph Brodsky until I got the 'Collected poems in English' by mail. A search led me to The Poets Laureate Anthology where I have read the same poems. But I cant recall having read them. Poets take heed to Carl Sandberg's words on advertising (why? Cause he is bday boy today and his wishes have to be fulfilled) and 'irritate them' readers so they can remember the poem.
The lines are from winds point of view in a rustic setting
Rhythm of exile and Anti Regressive Dissimilation rhythm?
When in exile at Norenskaia, Brodsky learnt English by translating works into Russian.
On Anno Domini poem - Also on his travel. Place plays a major role in his poems. as an exile, his very slippery affiliation with it, makes him collect it in memory.
Some libraries have his papers boxed. Is that enough to know him. Or as he says, is the way through his vowels and words. Or with a Who's who entry. Or in the poem Walcott reads to Brodsky's God mother by a reader-poet.
I thought I hadnt read Joseph Brodsky until I got the 'Collected poems in English' by mail. A search led me to The Poets Laureate Anthology where I have read the same poems. But I cant recall having read them. Poets take heed to Carl Sandberg's words on advertising (why? Cause he is bday boy today and his wishes have to be fulfilled) and 'irritate them' readers so they can remember the poem.
The lines are from winds point of view in a rustic setting
Rhythm of exile and Anti Regressive Dissimilation rhythm?
When in exile at Norenskaia, Brodsky learnt English by translating works into Russian.
On Anno Domini poem - Also on his travel. Place plays a major role in his poems. as an exile, his very slippery affiliation with it, makes him collect it in memory.
Some libraries have his papers boxed. Is that enough to know him. Or as he says, is the way through his vowels and words. Or with a Who's who entry. Or in the poem Walcott reads to Brodsky's God mother by a reader-poet.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Surely you didnt hear this
Title: The universal sense
Listeners of the low end chapter on tadpoles that switch from opercular hearing to the ear. A human foetus switches from umbilical cord to lungs for breathing
Tuning fork on the book cover might/might not work as an attention monger depending on your experience in science class. If you think, the ear with its so many inner/outer/middle like levels of hell is too much on one thing, feel free to skip the jarg on it and still theres the 'How hearing shapes the mind' to be appreciated in the book.
All that pregnancy reading helped in seeing parallels of how foetus shifts from systems during birth. A human foetus shifts from umbilical cord to pulmonary route for breathing. And such a shift is found in bull frog tadpoles when they move from the opercular way of hearing under water to the ear.
There are so many things about hearing that we come across daily but havent put it into:
Do you know why you have preference for one ear when you talk on the phone
Why you have to take care of alarms while it doesnt seem to bother others
How you can hear over the din in a restaurant/party - Cocktail effect
This is science amped All you wanted to know about hearing from a contemporary scientist who does his homework of popular/necessary reading.
Tuning fork on the book cover might/might not work as an attention monger depending on your experience in science class. If you think, the ear with its so many inner/outer/middle like levels of hell is too much on one thing, feel free to skip the jarg on it and still theres the 'How hearing shapes the mind' to be appreciated in the book.
All that pregnancy reading helped in seeing parallels of how foetus shifts from systems during birth. A human foetus shifts from umbilical cord to pulmonary route for breathing. And such a shift is found in bull frog tadpoles when they move from the opercular way of hearing under water to the ear.
There are so many things about hearing that we come across daily but havent put it into:
Do you know why you have preference for one ear when you talk on the phone
Why you have to take care of alarms while it doesnt seem to bother others
How you can hear over the din in a restaurant/party - Cocktail effect
This is science amped All you wanted to know about hearing from a contemporary scientist who does his homework of popular/necessary reading.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Valued Ex
Title: Stag's Leap
Author: Sharon Olds
For the reader, recognising the perfect love involves an ex makes him/her confront the loss to the author as many times as her encounters in her mind.
Some poems show her split half for art and family.
Like they say 'is there ever a good time for something like break up/ divorce?'. is there ever a goo time to spend on art vs family?
on PBS
Guardian review
NPR review
Huffington post review
Something new in each interview
Play time in BC
A toy
A head falling out of a neck
connected by a string of holes
Mouth to the top of the head
Push and pull the string
to see the head bob up and down
The holes on the side of the neck
Can it be moved sideways?
A head falling out of a neck
connected by a string of holes
Mouth to the top of the head
Push and pull the string
to see the head bob up and down
The holes on the side of the neck
Can it be moved sideways?
A year with Brodskys poetry
Title: Joseph Brodsky Collected poems in English
My friend told me that she sent me a gift. I guessed it to be a book. I hoped it wasnt one I had read. I asked for a clue. Poetry book she said. I didnt know how to feel as a receiver of poetry book. I would have liked to pass around some poetry books but never thought what if someone gave me a poetry book. Here is the moment. Joseph Brodsky, I dont think I have heard of him.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
From specific to general to specifics
10 snack foods originally sold as medicines
When you find a tidbit interesting, see if there are other examples.
Compact powder expanded to vanity case.
When you find a tidbit interesting, see if there are other examples.
Compact powder expanded to vanity case.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
It is true
what they say about
sugar high for kids
I thought that sugar high
from cookies was for American kids
As kids we climbed the sack of rice
to reach the ledge which has Horlicks powder
When daddy hid the Nutrine chocolates in the attic
we asked our grown up cousin to lift us so we could
reach them
And the white glucose powder
we had to have gulps of it
solid to liquid in 3.5
Why did we have to
I cannot imagine eating sugar like that now
by spoonfuls or even pinches
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Glucose is the starting point for the above.
Chase it. Read to find your trigger word.
sugar high for kids
I thought that sugar high
from cookies was for American kids
As kids we climbed the sack of rice
to reach the ledge which has Horlicks powder
When daddy hid the Nutrine chocolates in the attic
we asked our grown up cousin to lift us so we could
reach them
And the white glucose powder
we had to have gulps of it
solid to liquid in 3.5
Why did we have to
I cannot imagine eating sugar like that now
by spoonfuls or even pinches
--------------------------------------------------
Glucose is the starting point for the above.
Chase it. Read to find your trigger word.
Sudden Dog
Title: Sudden Dog
Author: Matthew Pennock
Two more poems
Forgive the Hyena its crimes. A title that reminds me of Please do not yell at the sea cucumber.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Essays
Best American sports writing 2012
Best American Travel writing
Best American essays
GEOFFREY BENT. Edward Hopper and the Geometry of Despair
To put forward a thesis on a painter with a new understanding of his work opposing the prevelant theories. Such a bold step is seen in BENJAMIN ANASTAS. The Foul Reign of “Self-Reliance”
DUDLEY CLENDINEN. The Good Short Life
Graceful life with ALS
PAUL COLLINS. Vanishing Act
Does the society owe an artist a living as a child or an adult?
Bestamerican cience and nature writing
Best American Travel writing
Best American essays
GEOFFREY BENT. Edward Hopper and the Geometry of Despair
To put forward a thesis on a painter with a new understanding of his work opposing the prevelant theories. Such a bold step is seen in BENJAMIN ANASTAS. The Foul Reign of “Self-Reliance”
DUDLEY CLENDINEN. The Good Short Life
Graceful life with ALS
PAUL COLLINS. Vanishing Act
Does the society owe an artist a living as a child or an adult?
Bestamerican cience and nature writing
Mothers
Title: This I Believe On Motherhood
Edited by Dan Gediman, John Gregory and Mary Jo Gediman
Grabbing the baton reminded me of my special moment of my daughters birth. The author has maintained the gravity of that moment, when she began holding the baby even though she wasnt the biological mother.
Rituals passed on from mothers to daughters and forth.
Do the right thing at the right time. A similar advice I gleaned from my relatives and parents who are working all the time.
Do the right thing at the right time. A similar advice I gleaned from my relatives and parents who are working all the time.
All trees are not the same
Title: A Sanctuary of Trees
Author: Gene Lodgson
Have you ever wondered about the wood used in utility poles? Strengths and weaknesses of trees. Then this book is for you.
From his childhood, the author the author has lived in woodlands. He has amassed immense knowledge about trees, their worth in BTU, how best to cut them, how to get the most out of an acre with planting well chosen species, the prevailing myths about dangers of trees like sassafras, how to gain fuel independence by maintaining your own woodland and replenishing before cutting, sustainable forest farming.
If the main subject wasnt trees, you could mistake it for math with all the acreage and BTU information and calculations. You will learn another meaning of cord.
Inspiring at times
I have read `Among Schoolchildren' by Tracy Kidder a couple of years ago and passed on the book to a teacher. For that reason and The art of Nonfiction, I read this book.
The example of Nabokov's chronophobe for a writing that is simple but is of complex things. The book has some very strong examples of the points being explained.
`Narratives' chapter with the choice of first person, third person lost me. But when the authors talk of structure, the example of a complex double telling of a story brings across how the actual writing/telling of a story can influence or lead to a particular way of telling and retelling.
In the `memoirs' chapter, the readers are left puzzled how Tim O Brien of `The things they carried' felt that he told the story better in his fictional book than the non fictional one. One of those' truth is stranger than fiction' revelations where `fact seems simply insufficient'. Pacifique's need of writing down horrible past so he can less haunted is heart touching.
`Essays' chapter refers to work outside the book that I still need to look at.
Style chapter seemed like a grammar book and the advice of avoiding cliché is pedantic.
Editing as done between the writer and editor in the author duo is an insight into the editing process and the publishing world.
Portrait of the essay as a warm body
Jenny Boully - the Body essay
reference to 'Castro's beard' essay
3 and 1/2
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Crushing cancer
Its always interesting to read about the lives of people who have
passion for what they do. It is a nice dream come true, when you always walk home 'the winner'.Imagine, such a reverie being broken with something like a cancer.
Lance Armstrong proved himself to be a real brave sports person, by staging a comeback fighting such an illness with all the courage it took.
This book will be very inspiring to all the people, who cannot imagine life after a major setback.
Aug 25, 2005
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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