Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Both genres
I am reading The Art of Nonfiction by Ayn Rand. I see that she has also written The art of fiction.
Yesterday I started reading Now write! Nonfiction. In the introduction, there is a mention of Now write fiction by the same author.
As of now, they seem like two opposite points. May be the state of righting both is the final Nirvana state of writerhood.
contributors
Yesterday I started reading Now write! Nonfiction. In the introduction, there is a mention of Now write fiction by the same author.
As of now, they seem like two opposite points. May be the state of righting both is the final Nirvana state of writerhood.
contributors
Scurrying lizards
Lizards of southwest
On the hike, I found 3 lizards and I was reminded of a rare lizard we saw as kids. It was called ' pala binde' in Telugu. The words translate to milk pitcher. It looked cream light in color. It didnt have cringe looks like the other lizards.
The Short horned lizards have a wider center breaking our lizard narrow expectations.
Field
Once in a while, funny titles come up.
The Field guide to fields
The spelling of field is unsoothing compared to its meaning.
The Field guide to fields
The spelling of field is unsoothing compared to its meaning.
Fauna by month
The view from lazy point
The conservation ethos is deeply present in each chapter.
Atrazine interferring with Amphibians.
Nurse shark
daffodils by April and red birds playing Prima Donna with their songs - 'It aint spring till I sing'. If these things signal spring, and thinking of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, spring stops being a season, it becomes a status signal.
When I came across Witness for Nature, with its massive 634 pages, I felt disappointed that I couldnt take it up for reading.
Parrotfish and coral reef
The conservation ethos is deeply present in each chapter.
Atrazine interferring with Amphibians.
Nurse shark
daffodils by April and red birds playing Prima Donna with their songs - 'It aint spring till I sing'. If these things signal spring, and thinking of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, spring stops being a season, it becomes a status signal.
When I came across Witness for Nature, with its massive 634 pages, I felt disappointed that I couldnt take it up for reading.
Parrotfish and coral reef
Monday, March 14, 2011
All those things
According to Simmel , all things not assimilated oppress us.
Reading of diyas, as Easter mugs,in Theories of things chapter of Stuff by Daniel Miller, I cannot recall any daily objects that have events on them as prevalent in US.
Relationships of things
Some are in pairs like the mortar and pestle.
The author studied pottery in India to understand how it sustains different forms for same function. Looking at the pictures of pots in Artefacts as Categories, I am reminded of tall pots about 4 ft high that were used to store grains.
Kabyle
Car upholstery culture
Reading of diyas, as Easter mugs,in Theories of things chapter of Stuff by Daniel Miller, I cannot recall any daily objects that have events on them as prevalent in US.
Relationships of things
Some are in pairs like the mortar and pestle.
The author studied pottery in India to understand how it sustains different forms for same function. Looking at the pictures of pots in Artefacts as Categories, I am reminded of tall pots about 4 ft high that were used to store grains.
Kabyle
Car upholstery culture
Saturday, March 12, 2011
trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I was first shown
a grackle
on a bent reed
Its shrieks too are
on a heavy strung reed
a grackle
on a bent reed
Its shrieks too are
on a heavy strung reed
Friday, March 11, 2011
Like a conversation
Half empty
Jacket art by Mark Matcho reveals that alls not well with the happy-go-lucky bunnies and the man rowing down the water about to take a plunge.
Pentimento
Subjective well being
Jacket art by Mark Matcho reveals that alls not well with the happy-go-lucky bunnies and the man rowing down the water about to take a plunge.
Pentimento
Subjective well being
Houghton Mifflin Logo
Upside down
A boy playing piper
balances a dolphin
turned up
on both ends
The symmetry
of dolphins
A boy playing piper
balances a dolphin
turned up
on both ends
The symmetry
of dolphins
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Decorative Lined Storage Wooden Crates
.. the crate hasnt just been packed tight for the sake of packing. - Adam Gopnik, Intoduction to Reporting at Wits end.
Tailored addictions
Our grandmothers had a little paraphernalia for their daily stimulation. A small fabric pouch that houses betel leaves, Areca nut,tiny steel containers with lids for slaked lime, Kaasu . The people in Trobriand Islands in Stuff add slake lime to betel nuts, to reduce the bitterness of the nuts.
Our grandfathers had a different setup, reminiscent of primitive cave man, they generated a sparkle to light their rolled cigarettes with friction.
Our grandfathers had a different setup, reminiscent of primitive cave man, they generated a sparkle to light their rolled cigarettes with friction.
Point of departure
After reading about the crows going for the snake livers in Wild comfort, I made a statement about intellect's role in driving addiction and hours later I questioned myself if I would be a non-vegetarian if I did the killing myself.
Ghost net.
I like the concept of 'Happy Basket'. I already know a basket perfect for it.
Bat ray
Totopos
Blue in wings
Nudibranch
Flounder has 3 kind of
skin cells to help in its camouflage.
Tree frogs
Ghost net.
I like the concept of 'Happy Basket'. I already know a basket perfect for it.
Bat ray
Totopos
Blue in wings
Nudibranch
Flounder has 3 kind of
skin cells to help in its camouflage.
Tree frogs
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Insect watching
Our abandoned balcony in the winter, has been an abode for industrious insects. My roomate showed me well crafted, beautiful web. In there, closer to the peripheries were tiny insects, spider babies? Hence my interest in the book
Insectopedia.
Morphologically disturbed insects
Conrad Gessner
Maria Sibylla Merian
Mary Anning
Insectopedia.
Morphologically disturbed insects
Conrad Gessner
Maria Sibylla Merian
Mary Anning
New poets
Why translation matters
It is because of Rabassa's translation that I read One hundred years of solitude but I wouldnt say that I remember his name. goes to say of the little credit that goes to the translators, according o the author who is also a translator.
As i kept reading 'The Notebook' by Jose Saramago, admiring is fluidity, i kept forgetting that its a translation well done.
Luis de Gongora
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Gustave Adolfo Becquer
Francisco de Quevedo
Jaime Manrique
Nicanor Parra
Jorge Manrique
Garcilaso de la vega
Fray luis de leon
Sor Juana ines de la cruz
It is because of Rabassa's translation that I read One hundred years of solitude but I wouldnt say that I remember his name. goes to say of the little credit that goes to the translators, according o the author who is also a translator.
As i kept reading 'The Notebook' by Jose Saramago, admiring is fluidity, i kept forgetting that its a translation well done.
Luis de Gongora
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Gustave Adolfo Becquer
Francisco de Quevedo
Jaime Manrique
Nicanor Parra
Jorge Manrique
Garcilaso de la vega
Fray luis de leon
Sor Juana ines de la cruz
Daffodils
My colleague asked me
to pick few daffodils
from her vase
I have never seen them
before
Read of them in
Wordsworth poem
The ones I have
are still buds
making the stalks
bigger
to pick few daffodils
from her vase
I have never seen them
before
Read of them in
Wordsworth poem
The ones I have
are still buds
making the stalks
bigger
Noiseless dream
In a childhood dream
there are snakes on
either side of the road
I am on my knees
a skateboard position
to zoom through
without touching them
What you notice most is the noise
At superstition mountains
I crossed a wanderer
lying on the path
and asked my friend
to quietly do the same
At BITS, I froze
when we were both
on the road
it crossing from a
mini garden
to a lawn
Always avoiding
each other
Vomeronasal
there are snakes on
either side of the road
I am on my knees
a skateboard position
to zoom through
without touching them
What you notice most is the noise
At superstition mountains
I crossed a wanderer
lying on the path
and asked my friend
to quietly do the same
At BITS, I froze
when we were both
on the road
it crossing from a
mini garden
to a lawn
Always avoiding
each other
Vomeronasal
Sunday, March 6, 2011
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Trailing in the clouds
A week at the airport
The school of life
Trailing in the clouds
From the ground
when a jet flies
in the clear sky
you see
its white trail
From a plane
when a plane flies
in the clouds
you see
its clean trail
Neon sign
A lightning
is a neon sign
that sometimes
borders the clouds
sometimes flashes
them up
Pull head over
Wave to a train
to a ship
but none to a plane
Celestial things
There are stars on earth too
Lights at the night from a plane
Its the distance that lends the beauty
to celestial things
The book had such a glossy cover that my laptop flickers had me dodging a crawlie reflected on the book.
The school of life
Trailing in the clouds
From the ground
when a jet flies
in the clear sky
you see
its white trail
From a plane
when a plane flies
in the clouds
you see
its clean trail
Neon sign
A lightning
is a neon sign
that sometimes
borders the clouds
sometimes flashes
them up
Pull head over
Wave to a train
to a ship
but none to a plane
Celestial things
There are stars on earth too
Lights at the night from a plane
Its the distance that lends the beauty
to celestial things
The book had such a glossy cover that my laptop flickers had me dodging a crawlie reflected on the book.
Meet the poet
Poetry in person
Muriel Rukeyser
During the course of his 1993 appearance, edward Hirsch repeats a line from Robert frost to the effect that if a book of poetry holds twenty-nine poems, the book itself becomes the thirtieth poem. - Alexander Neubaeuer.
I'm sure that rhythm is the poet himself. - Lowell.
Muriel Rukeyser
During the course of his 1993 appearance, edward Hirsch repeats a line from Robert frost to the effect that if a book of poetry holds twenty-nine poems, the book itself becomes the thirtieth poem. - Alexander Neubaeuer.
I'm sure that rhythm is the poet himself. - Lowell.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Bizarre
An infant lying on his back just turned on his tap but there is not enough water, it looked like a a long transparent then film. A lady broke it off and found a similar thinner tube inside and fed it back to the kid.
On an aerial trip in a seat over water. Had to hold to the sides of the chair, brushing off thoughts of what the fall could lead to.
On an aerial trip in a seat over water. Had to hold to the sides of the chair, brushing off thoughts of what the fall could lead to.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Life in hindsight
Interactions with travelers. The world looks at you and lets you know, you are fat. The world, the mirror, the equaliser. If your family does the same, you revolt. When a nameless face does it, you cry but you listen up. The world like the nurse, pats you for your nise, squeak so you let the world know that you are alive.
The cost of non-reticence in public transport.
The cost of non-reticence in public transport.
The sleep of life
What is that something restorative that lets you place all things personal on a shelf and take off from where you left, after the life is back in you. Like picking up your belongings from the jailer when its time for parole or freedom.
Cartoonists
They take reins of their life way early.
Chalk is my weapon - Backing into Forward, Jules Feiffer.
Al Jaffee too had this sense of need to take control of his life as he couldnt trust his mother to take care of him.
Chalk is my weapon - Backing into Forward, Jules Feiffer.
Al Jaffee too had this sense of need to take control of his life as he couldnt trust his mother to take care of him.
Jacket Art
Somebody else's century
Fungible
The book's buddha face - four faced as Janus but only in the visible half with each half overlapping the other is easily lost in the cliched but hey take a look again. Design by OUTT
Otaku
Drishtee, Saurath
Sandur Lambani
Heterogeneous time
Emil Cioran
Qixia Buddhas
Linear V Circular time
Fungible
The book's buddha face - four faced as Janus but only in the visible half with each half overlapping the other is easily lost in the cliched but hey take a look again. Design by OUTT
Otaku
Drishtee, Saurath
Sandur Lambani
Heterogeneous time
Emil Cioran
Qixia Buddhas
Linear V Circular time
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Water
is often theme for many literary magazines, so naturally I was interested in Written in water.
Corvina
Nashua
Ufrainkhal and FAO
Corvina
Nashua
Ufrainkhal and FAO
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
New writer
I wonder how else I could be introduced to Breece Pancake's work, if not through Five million head of cattle by Samantha Hunt.
In the essay I like how she tells about herself by telling about an opposite of herself, calls a song a heartache.
In the essay I like how she tells about herself by telling about an opposite of herself, calls a song a heartache.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The joy of essays
How to be alone, essays by Jonathan Franzen. In 2003, I heard about his novel from a penpal but never read any work of his. Essays is something I am more likely to read than a novel.
Geri chair
Blues traveler
After coming across Vetted, from the sound of it, I recalled that I meant to look for vatic.
Sound is a way of words to keep each other from going into oblivion.
White flight
Geri chair
Blues traveler
After coming across Vetted, from the sound of it, I recalled that I meant to look for vatic.
Sound is a way of words to keep each other from going into oblivion.
White flight
Monday, February 21, 2011
Veneer
The dreams that get us close to the flying wings of an eagle, of a colorful pterosaur. Legs slipping down the cliff, but no fear even with an inadvertent hunchback behind. Beneath is the water dating beginning.
A mask to see behind the scenes.
A mask to see behind the scenes.
Of Sontag
She always wore pants ( usually jeans) and low-heeled shoes ( usually sneakers), and she refused to carry a purse.
- Sigrid Nunez.
John Berger
- Sigrid Nunez.
John Berger
Mythology
I move my face
left right slightly up down slowly
a silent photographers directions
so a beam of sunlight
can smother me
This kind of thing
could impregnate me
I wrote this after the cue of sunlight
left right slightly up down slowly
a silent photographers directions
so a beam of sunlight
can smother me
This kind of thing
could impregnate me
I wrote this after the cue of sunlight
Writers
Mentors, Muses and Monsters
This essay Annie Dillard and the writing life by Alexander Chee will show your writing guts to you. with sentences like 'Compare yourself to Colette, or Henry James or Edith Wharton.' and 'Go up to the place in the bookstore where your books will go, she said. Walk right up and find your place on the shelf. Put your finger there, and then go every time.'
In The Snow Globe, Jonathan Safran Foer writes about the give and take that goes on between writers.Yehuda Amichai with his A Man doesnt have time poem, the kind that Emily Dickinson says you know its a poem, it takes your head off would influence anyone he comes in contact with.
In 'When Julie met Deb..' her persuasion in keeping at wriitng for seven years hinging her writing life on two editors approval.
Excerpts
This essay Annie Dillard and the writing life by Alexander Chee will show your writing guts to you. with sentences like 'Compare yourself to Colette, or Henry James or Edith Wharton.' and 'Go up to the place in the bookstore where your books will go, she said. Walk right up and find your place on the shelf. Put your finger there, and then go every time.'
In The Snow Globe, Jonathan Safran Foer writes about the give and take that goes on between writers.Yehuda Amichai with his A Man doesnt have time poem, the kind that Emily Dickinson says you know its a poem, it takes your head off would influence anyone he comes in contact with.
In 'When Julie met Deb..' her persuasion in keeping at wriitng for seven years hinging her writing life on two editors approval.
Excerpts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Horticultural Diversity
The Florists daughter
Waterford vases
Why its Alstromeria thats on The Journal keeper's desk.
Stephanotis
Gloxinia
Flowering ginger
Sprengeri fern
Fraser fir
Norway pine or red pine
St Paul
American beauty, a kind of rose. The eponymous movie now makes sense.
Hummel figurines
Cymbidium
Noble fir
Waterford vases
Why its Alstromeria thats on The Journal keeper's desk.
Stephanotis
Gloxinia
Flowering ginger
Sprengeri fern
Fraser fir
Norway pine or red pine
St Paul
American beauty, a kind of rose. The eponymous movie now makes sense.
Hummel figurines
Cymbidium
Noble fir
Saturday, February 19, 2011
For the king
Writing fiction
I told my roomate that I was going to read Beirut 39. She asked me if its fiction. That put me in a thought if its possible to write fiction when you are in the midst of turmoil or insecurity.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Who am I?
I crawl on my belly at a snail pace
But I have no carapace
I have a foot and no bones
But I make no bones about it
My movements are smooth on slime
But I stop in my tracks on gas lime.
But I have no carapace
I have a foot and no bones
But I make no bones about it
My movements are smooth on slime
But I stop in my tracks on gas lime.
Translating geography
I heard a man proposed in Antarctica.
What is the Antarctica, the Everest of the mind?
What is the Antarctica, the Everest of the mind?
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