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Monday, January 31, 2011

Difficult

Like a sea poems consistently break the flow with a twisted sentence structure.

Palm trees

woodpeckers dig nests in them
nests of coir fall under them
dispute, wind, out of need

Versatile Saramago



When I read that Jose Saramago's book The Notebook is also a blog, I was looking for a shortcut. I thought I will be happy with the link at my disposal. From what I understand, that blog must be somewhere but only in Portuguese. So no luck there. I read the book feverishly last night. He is like modern Samuel Pepys spanning the extremes of a closeted writer and a person who knows all about current politics.

Jorge Amado

Apelles
Rita Levi
Teratology
Carlos Fuentes - Aura
Spiritual family of Saramago
Ramon Lobo
Enric Gonzalez - Stories of New York
I like the sound of Teide in Tenerife

Kerouac's diet

Which of Breughel painting has most life?
Like a Breughel painting, On the Road teems with life, celebrating our moments on earth even as it mourns them. - Jay Atkinson,
Paradise road

The first time I heard of Kerouac was in reference to the Death cab for cutie work being comapred to him.

Colors and sounds

Henri cole
Pierce the skin
The poems recall the plains, managing to keep the interest of the poem in all of its breadth instead of just as a line coursing through the page, zig-zag, left to right and down, repeat.

Listening to the lonely whistle

The Living fire

Maud Gonne
Rosicrucian

I liked 'Three Journeys'. 'Execution' and other poems which I would write in a single line show to elaborate on an experience.
A book that I will sit with to learn how to write.

Review

Reading experiences

My Reading Life
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman - elegy on the death of Abe Lincoln.

A Dance to the music of time

"Pat, don't you think the passage of time is what all literature is really about? Poems, plays, novels, everything?"
- Gene Norris, Pat's English teacher.

Millay

I like the courage in Interim
Back cover

Her elegies are good. 'still' appears a lot in her poems.
A maiden lost in love is not down.

No rose in a garden that ever grew
In Homer's or in Omars or in mine

-Edna St Millay


If memory worked differently
our poems would not end in
rhymes but begin with synonyms
or end with antonyms

If it remembered experiences with
varying degrees
our poems would end in
er and est

Her sonnets