Net Galley Challenge
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Period poetry
What the poets of this century might not be on this time. Poets of previous century can write of us imagining science fiction, or of the next century as historical fiction.
When I read that the book has poems on Titanic, I can see how news articles might have led people to imagine about it.
The coming urban century.
The coming urban century.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Rocky point
If someone can interest you in rocks like the layers of a cake, then its a geologist who will let you feel the thrill of his findings as he joins the dots. He gets us conversant in using stratigraphy of looking at the layer changes in the rocks.
The story under Rome is no less riveting than the many on/of it.
Now a geologist is not going to leave you without rubbing off a thing or two about his subject - potassium argon dating. Other than this method, geologists have also used fossils and microfossils.
Can you believe that Earth's magnetic field is reversing from time to time? Not once or twice, if you look at the changes of magnetic polarity, it looks like a bar code. You can study these things if you become a paleomagnetist.
Lie water cycle, there's a rock cycle with sedimentary on the surface rocks are bedded deep into earth to become metamorphic rocks which later emerge as volcanic rocks. Then part of the water cycle erodes these rocks to form sedimentary rocks.
Dec 18, 2009
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Clash of the natures
Madame X by William Logan
Pale blossoms, chipped like tea cups in The War, The War
The placid tuna, hacked into agate slabs in The eels of the lagoon
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Words
VEX, hex, SMASH, smooch by Constance Hale
In an American Airlines inflight magazine article, when I came across 'luckily', I felt how our sense of gratefulness never comes across the page. It has become like the overused just.
A vocabulary list is included in DFW's 'Both Flesh and Not'.
Storing summer
The Golden Road by Rachel Hadas
origin,journey, wound and destination in The pattern. It has been said that all stories are about a person going from one place to the other. Into this shuttling story, the poet adds the bump of wound into the journey element. A resultant journey to find the cure creates a web of story yarn.
departure and arrival in On the ferry. The author's poetry deals with states, before-after. The narrator is always in a flux, travelling in a plane, on a ferry in which she lets her thoughts to travel too laying down conversation starters dormant.
The address book begins as a data management/organizer, in years if it does not fall out of use, it stocks the living, dead and the forgotten all in the same book.
Plot of Macbeth
No good deed goes unrewarded reminds me of good intentions being misunderstood.
Rear window
The language of women
That was another summer though. Life has some times that return. Birthday celebrations and seasons which rest like layers on the previous.
In After the end of summer, a brown brook
'over and over in its water voice,
a voice born out of silence'
takes us to that moment of beauty spent solely with nature.
poet on The end of summer in Three poets.
Storing the season
Ill naw mean
From a family with values derived from the mind of Shihuangdi, the man who built the Wall and unified China come tales that remind me of 'Talk Thai: the Adventures of a Buddhist boy' in the situation of narrators with fresh of the boat parents.
In the times when Instagram and smartphones werent heard of, author Eddie Huang has been part of many things that would have made popular videos. Ousted out of various schools faster than annually, you can see the making of the mean boys - he and his friends who bond over hip-hop.
'I found myself. I rehabilitated myself'
I went into the book thinking that it is about food. The author ends up owning a restaurant just like his dad but the route he takes is rife with many imagination pumping street fights and meets with cops.
'I wanted to know if there was one person, one voice, one individual inside me.'
When in Taiwan airport, the author felt best at house, midway between his white America and Chinese Taiwan.
The author bangs into the stereotype culture wall and being called names for his ethnic looks. He veers off many times to be influenced by many 'most important' professors who recognise his talent.
Our response to culture is different based on the age we are exposed to it. The author's formative years form tales that turn into culture tapestry.
The transition of the voice from a child to the adult is maintained in the book.
In the times when Instagram and smartphones werent heard of, author Eddie Huang has been part of many things that would have made popular videos. Ousted out of various schools faster than annually, you can see the making of the mean boys - he and his friends who bond over hip-hop.
'I found myself. I rehabilitated myself'
I went into the book thinking that it is about food. The author ends up owning a restaurant just like his dad but the route he takes is rife with many imagination pumping street fights and meets with cops.
'I wanted to know if there was one person, one voice, one individual inside me.'
When in Taiwan airport, the author felt best at house, midway between his white America and Chinese Taiwan.
The author bangs into the stereotype culture wall and being called names for his ethnic looks. He veers off many times to be influenced by many 'most important' professors who recognise his talent.
Our response to culture is different based on the age we are exposed to it. The author's formative years form tales that turn into culture tapestry.
The transition of the voice from a child to the adult is maintained in the book.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
How the book is a metabook
Like MLA(Modern Language Association)'s guidelines for bibliography, the author too has one.
David Shields, How Literature saved my Life. In later chapters, when it comes to his `Fifty-five works Iswear by', take for example:
Borges, Other Inquisitions. An investigation of otherness pretending to be mere miscellany.
In a strange way this note resonates with the book too with its web like miscellany and the `otherness' apparent in the quest of unifying the search in the many books.
If you look at life through the lens of death (lens of the book), everything would seem trivial. But still the trivial is not left unexamined. In between this apathy and scrutiny falls the authors study not limited to books but also to failed public heroes, Brown university, fictional superheroes.
A book about many books and writers. How other writers deal with death.The author is a self proclaimed ambivalent. Literature is his saviour and then its not. With his vast reading, the author is able to quote from a variety of sources. Sometimes the quotes steal the show. Sometimes they are out of place.
Many books mentioned in the book like ` This is not a novel', a book according to the author almost entirely out of other writers' lines. Atleast that book has the pleasure of recognition of the passages included. If we rdid `Wait don't tell me `for everything in the book it wouldn't be too fun. So even though there is the humility of not knowing much of the work alluded to in the book, the author has trapped himself into a construct like a never ending story where the magic is supposed to be in the million mirroring of a mostly empty diorama box.
One strength of the book is that even though no lines will stick with you. If you flip the pages, because of the miscellany, the aptness will hit your radar sometime.
The writer does achieve the `dubiety of the first person pronoun' that he wants to achieve by making the reader wonder if he/she is in between quotations.
Things I didn't know
Scout belt can be bought
How Tree of Codes book was made
Collage books
3/5
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Let the train move on
One Train May Hide another
This is the kind that would make me happy as a school going child taking a bus. If the bus in front just left and somehow there's another bus in the same direction.
From a simple observation, poet Kenneth Koch has moved to one of the most important situation in life. If you cant move on, never mind, let the train move on.
Appian Way
I missed reading the first line in parenthesis.
Being a poet, it is a given that this sign should first make him see how it translates to poetry.
You always have to wait for the train. Yield it says.
Wait for the line. One line may hide another thinks the optimist writer.
A jump to a personality shadowing another. Jumps back to his turf of words.
The path of things.
Valley of the var. Turns too hide things. Blind spot.
We only look for what we are waiting for. Think of a giant Lazy Susan or Baggage carousel. The bag has to be picked. All celestial things are on a carousel. To be is to be everywhere. Moving all the time.
PS: Today a group email was sent about a lost hairpin. This hairpin would be easy to find.
This is the kind that would make me happy as a school going child taking a bus. If the bus in front just left and somehow there's another bus in the same direction.
From a simple observation, poet Kenneth Koch has moved to one of the most important situation in life. If you cant move on, never mind, let the train move on.
Appian Way
I missed reading the first line in parenthesis.
Being a poet, it is a given that this sign should first make him see how it translates to poetry.
You always have to wait for the train. Yield it says.
Wait for the line. One line may hide another thinks the optimist writer.
A jump to a personality shadowing another. Jumps back to his turf of words.
The path of things.
Valley of the var. Turns too hide things. Blind spot.
We only look for what we are waiting for. Think of a giant Lazy Susan or Baggage carousel. The bag has to be picked. All celestial things are on a carousel. To be is to be everywhere. Moving all the time.
PS: Today a group email was sent about a lost hairpin. This hairpin would be easy to find.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Day 5
Poem: Homage to Yalta
Words in the order they appear in the poem:
Yalta
Chigorin Defense
washout. Have you felt the discomfort of being between knowing a word and guessing it from context? I have seen people use this word shortened to wash and never quite understood what they meant.
Livadia. Cities inside us. The poem by Alberto Rios makes me wonder why he didnt choose a specific place as it would leave a better sense of belonging to a place and holding it in you too, when you move away. All cities might remain in you. But they would differ in how. Even without the specifics, the poet does not lose the reader. For one, he binds with them as the citizens of the city inside. The title is the foreshadow of the direction. When you say city, the mind wanders out. What is true of the places is true of the people.
Words in the order they appear in the poem:
Yalta
Chigorin Defense
washout. Have you felt the discomfort of being between knowing a word and guessing it from context? I have seen people use this word shortened to wash and never quite understood what they meant.
Livadia. Cities inside us. The poem by Alberto Rios makes me wonder why he didnt choose a specific place as it would leave a better sense of belonging to a place and holding it in you too, when you move away. All cities might remain in you. But they would differ in how. Even without the specifics, the poet does not lose the reader. For one, he binds with them as the citizens of the city inside. The title is the foreshadow of the direction. When you say city, the mind wanders out. What is true of the places is true of the people.
Day 4 Joseph Brodsky
Today while watering the pothos which grows on only one side, the leaves that have been there for a long time, I realise that they wont long. An acceptance opposed to the eternal why should leaves fall and flowers die.
The unrelenting law
that happiness cant last
- For E.R, Joseph Brodsky
Pontus which 'remains unfrozen'.
frozen is such a cold, solid word that you first think of the shit down white and then clear it to imagine unfrozen.
exploded soundlessly, nymphs leap,
The aural scape is charged
But no wind blows, ..slowly rising breakers
In an obvious state of calm, there is an upsurge welling.
I tend to write in terms of A caused B. The last para is a succession of things overthrowing a succession of other things. With the multitude/complex happenings, there is a benefit of texture.
The unrelenting law
that happiness cant last
- For E.R, Joseph Brodsky
Pontus which 'remains unfrozen'.
frozen is such a cold, solid word that you first think of the shit down white and then clear it to imagine unfrozen.
exploded soundlessly, nymphs leap,
The aural scape is charged
But no wind blows, ..slowly rising breakers
In an obvious state of calm, there is an upsurge welling.
I tend to write in terms of A caused B. The last para is a succession of things overthrowing a succession of other things. With the multitude/complex happenings, there is a benefit of texture.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Stereotypes
Title: Scandinavian Humor and Other Myths
I was interested in this book after an incident at a Scandinavian restaurant where we went to celebrate my friends Bday. We were overcharged. Seemed like the owner/mother was going to give it good to the son/cashier after we left. it also reminded me of an ad for a credit card where a son loses his customer and the mom is ready with her culinary weapons.
An Iceland person with a pile of books in a hand makes sense with a recent survey calling them the most reading.
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
--------------------------------------------------
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
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
QR code and art
QR-Code-Artworks: Martin R. Becker - 2011/12 (German Edition)
If you read magazines a lot, you might have seen the QR Code in the advertisements. A recent CBS news clip was about art in the zoomed in codes.
What tests a flashlight has to go through
The flash light has a flexibility for near or close spaces. It is light weight with a great intensity of light than I would expect from a torch. Only goes to show how like knives, torches too have gotten Swiss with all the optics and technology. It comes with a case for its safe keep that can be strapped onto loops for easy reach.
Stilty
You Are Special (Max Lucado's Wemmicks)
I come across so many unheard of children stories like The Phantom Toll Booth, that I stash away as a list to read them some time as my daughter grows. Today I cam across a book with wooden characters called 'Wemmicks' which is the kind of name that catches your attention, that you try to remember for later reference and forget. I was introduced to the concept of stars where kids place the stickers on the things they like in a TV commercial. And taking that a little further is to put 'dots' for the things you dont like. Then I started looking at other books. Its not like other children books where its ok even if you dont know what happened next. The tension between the stars and dots, between the donts and dos, haves and have nots builds up. This one has the allure and the mystery of a story with a message that most kids need growing up.
Far to near
Big Five game. In Swades movie, the heroine, a teacher asks about the five big rivers in India.
Yales's museum returning antiques
Yales's museum returning antiques
Travel faux pas - They are committed not only when you are in a foreign country. Even when you are interacting with people of a different class. As an intern, I once traveled in the back of a boss's boss's car while he was driving.
This magazine has advertisement labeled on top of the page to avoid glossy pictures to be mistaken for magazine's article.
Booker travels
This magazine has advertisement labeled on top of the page to avoid glossy pictures to be mistaken for magazine's article.
Booker travels
National Geo six to summit
Six to summit is about Everest summit by Americans in 1960s. I saw the movie Everest 82 about Canadians summit.
In this magazine, there is an ad about a watch that does updates date on the watch automatically. My sister asked me how is it done? I told her like a digital engineer, when the clock reaches 12 condition is true then the date is changed. But the actual how is here. While reading about this, I am taken back to the days when my parents would say the thorn (hand) is wrong and go about winding it to right. And now I learn that the watches used to rely on the motion of the wearer for heir function and if it hasnt been on the person for too long or the person hasnt moved then the watch does not show correct time. Loosely, we can say that a watch then was like a pedometer, that would not tell you how many but enough steps have been taken. From wiki, I learn the big deal about Seiko and a way to fashion a compass with a watch and a shadow.
Knorr soup that we know in India, is a German Company.
In this magazine, there is an ad about a watch that does updates date on the watch automatically. My sister asked me how is it done? I told her like a digital engineer, when the clock reaches 12 condition is true then the date is changed. But the actual how is here. While reading about this, I am taken back to the days when my parents would say the thorn (hand) is wrong and go about winding it to right. And now I learn that the watches used to rely on the motion of the wearer for heir function and if it hasnt been on the person for too long or the person hasnt moved then the watch does not show correct time. Loosely, we can say that a watch then was like a pedometer, that would not tell you how many but enough steps have been taken. From wiki, I learn the big deal about Seiko and a way to fashion a compass with a watch and a shadow.
Knorr soup that we know in India, is a German Company.
Essay poem
Author: Amy Leach
Her prose is like poetry. Prose poem
At once non-fiction, another time with anthromorphization of strong willed salmons to brides and grooms working against the river to reach the altar, the author adds stories to strife. Her subjects - beavers, Fainting goat with their abilities add to the charm of her writing.
Salmon as Old salt.
Authors interview and more work
A review
Salmon as Old salt.
Authors interview and more work
A review
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Best Books of 2012
Everybody has a list. Last year my friend told me that Bill Gates reads a lot too and he has a years best list.
Here's mine
2012
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
My Dyslexia - Phillip Schultz
The blue bird effect - Julie Zickefoose
Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmer
The man who changed the way we eat - Thomas McNamee
Yes Chef - Marcus Samuelsson
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake - Anna Quindlen
Mention for Ideas
Extra Virginity - Tom Mueller
The toaster project - Thomas Twaite
How Eskmos keep their babies warm - Mei-Ling HopGood
Poetry
The animals - a pastoral Richard Grossman
2011
The Anti-Romantic Child - Priscilla Gilman
2010
Muffins and Mayhem - Suzanne Beecher
Here's mine
2012
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
My Dyslexia - Phillip Schultz
The blue bird effect - Julie Zickefoose
Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmer
The man who changed the way we eat - Thomas McNamee
Yes Chef - Marcus Samuelsson
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake - Anna Quindlen
Mention for Ideas
Extra Virginity - Tom Mueller
The toaster project - Thomas Twaite
How Eskmos keep their babies warm - Mei-Ling HopGood
Poetry
The animals - a pastoral Richard Grossman
2011
The Anti-Romantic Child - Priscilla Gilman
2010
Muffins and Mayhem - Suzanne Beecher
Article
This article A brief history of wrapping paper, could have begun with the stalwart Hallmark's of greeting card fame. (Hallmark). But it ended with it. Usually we go after the inventors, but in this case, the product with its sole purpose of glitz is the cynosure.
exercise: Leave aside the person, focus on the thing, let it tell its tale independent of the inventor. Let Galatea tell her story. For example, To what Miserable wretches have I been born?
Zadie smith on joy. This article can help maintain a log of your personal experiences by mood.
exercise: Leave aside the person, focus on the thing, let it tell its tale independent of the inventor. Let Galatea tell her story. For example, To what Miserable wretches have I been born?
Zadie smith on joy. This article can help maintain a log of your personal experiences by mood.
Next year's read
Authors site
When the author writes of the kinds of people and questions he faces on his floor in the library, they make for funny incidents. This is how the chapters begin and then he brings in his personal life. The way the author has deal with his Tourette's by weight training is amazing.
In the end during a competition he recalls how like Joe of Touching the Void , he is on his own. Wow, that story was just revisited by Sarah wheeler in access all areas.
When the author writes of the kinds of people and questions he faces on his floor in the library, they make for funny incidents. This is how the chapters begin and then he brings in his personal life. The way the author has deal with his Tourette's by weight training is amazing.
In the end during a competition he recalls how like Joe of Touching the Void , he is on his own. Wow, that story was just revisited by Sarah wheeler in access all areas.
National Geographic, 1969, Vol 136, Issue 6 of Moon landing
Looking at the articles of Hassleblad (camera used for the moon - $22500 cameras. I am curious about how companies are after they are talked about in magazines. Also clears up if they are real), General dynamics ocean station, its har to tell that they are not the NG magazine articles and are advertisements.
Berlitz Language Schools - You are going to Haiti to learn french.
Jai Alai - What language is it? Its a game.
Zenith hearing aids
USF & G uses 'People, place and things' in their ad as all they insure. But really Name place animal things game that we play as children seems like a budding travelers symptoms.
Berlitz Language Schools - You are going to Haiti to learn french.
Jai Alai - What language is it? Its a game.
Zenith hearing aids
USF & G uses 'People, place and things' in their ad as all they insure. But really Name place animal things game that we play as children seems like a budding travelers symptoms.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
To turn a procedure into a fissile poem
Be scannable might be a good advice for a prose writer. But if the reader of your poetry is jumping a para, theres not much left to scan.
Woman mined. begins with a commonplace
snap you with an ultraviolet camera,
show you what you've done to your skin just
by living.....
Carolyn Creedon has jumped from a quotidian scene in a specific setting, a cosmetic department , from the material to the emotional space of a life time.
Exercise: Take a procedure done at any place that offers service - doctors, hair salon (or car wash) and see if you can hop onto the next circle post leading to the altar at the center of the lake.
Another exercise: Create out of tornado of fish.
Woman mined. begins with a commonplace
snap you with an ultraviolet camera,
show you what you've done to your skin just
by living.....
Carolyn Creedon has jumped from a quotidian scene in a specific setting, a cosmetic department , from the material to the emotional space of a life time.
Exercise: Take a procedure done at any place that offers service - doctors, hair salon (or car wash) and see if you can hop onto the next circle post leading to the altar at the center of the lake.
Another exercise: Create out of tornado of fish.
Reigning nonfiction
Author: Lee Gutkind
Three rs of narrative nonfiction. An article by the author using the example of Rebecca Skloot's Henrietta Lacks story.
Creative nonfiction playing by the rules. Give the nonficion writers a break or name a new category. Sounds like there is a need for rule book.
Be scannable. Never thought I would find that as an advice to a writer.
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