The wonder of the cosmos

Reading this book I wonder how are stars measured. 

Twinkle Twinkle little star

How I wonder what you weigh

How are new planets found?

The author compares the stars in the sky to fish. I once dreamt that the constellations actually looked like the form we imagine them.
Waiting for new objects in the sky seems much like waiting for fish with a rod.

The Ignored pipeline

To the last breath
The distance between us

Life as a cadaver

This book is like 'The natural history of senses' by Diane Ackerman in its reach of all things core topic.

Author Mary Roach 's new book:

Blooming thinking of flowers

In How to learn to love Poetry, Natasha Tretheway says that children look at broccoli as trees. Wow.

After  Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane poem was tweeted. Its not until you reach this poem, that you get to a solid poem. But wait what was that about counting leaves in Foolishness? No its not crazy but beautiful. Poet Mary Oliver is busy praising nature. 

Percy seems familiar.

In 'The Mockingbird', she calls him 'the thief of other sounds'.

In 'The way of the world, a wondrous fish 'In its silver scales / it seemed dressed for a wedding'.

On Traveling to beautiful places, the poet says we are all on this only ship. In Stiff, Mary Roach likens a cadaver to being on a cruise lying on the back and brain blank.

Cook in the dshwasher

picnic indoors.

Eat using only hands. How else would you eat? my husband explains it mans without using cutlery.

How to cook something in the dishwasher. So instead of scaring the child with soapy water for bad words, you just riddle their wrapped food with holes?

Walk on the same path for 30 days and notice the changes. 

Good review

A good review of a book is to me the one that brings out the role of the book in the bigger picture of literature. Yes the whats and hows of the book would be expected but thats a catalogue and a reading can decide on that easily. Multiple reviews that contradict on the content leave us where we start. 

Reading many books

at once is like playing Musical chairs. You read further into each book to decide which one gets eliminated. If a book has promise, it is kept aside to be savoured. This game can go as long as the library allows or does not interrupt with holds from other such players who think your book might jazz up their game.

The Joys of Reading many Books

Potential literature

Poetry prompts:

Beau present 

Metro poem
Apero
Prisoners constraint, its opposite
Antonymic translation example and meaning
Borders of the poems
Exercices de Style

A review
Storytelling organizations

To think of the less travelled path

Jeremy seal

An article
Another article
Beycesultan Mound with ducts for heating 1000 years before we know of it.

The writing about the travel along the meander in an inflatable canoe along with the stories from the maps of the past is like Rephotography.
One thing that kept rearing up in the book is the pristinity of a foreigner as a stranger with a possibility of medicinal knowledge, different ways of grooming and the xenophobe's horror. In the current global world, people can ease into a culture by reading up on it before hand.
Strangers in the villages he stops for the night treat him with green almonds.

Randomized field trial

A review

Can government run an experiment by providing stimulus to a smaller section of people to see how far it stimulates the economy?

Instead of only traditional market research, moving on to trials.

Another review
Yet another review

A title like this attracts readers like flies

Tell tale tit

Writing
Birds bees and traveling salesmen animals solved a wildly complex mathematical
20 native american authors you need to read. Been to readings by Sherman Alexie and Simon J Ortiz. Read Leslie silko's Ceremony and Joy harjo's Brave

Archaeoastronomy

paleoastronomy

Running lines

It befits that an editors book should start with crossed out lines of Shelley in coming up Orphan hours.
This book is dedicated to Michael Collier with whom the author Stanley Plumly has co-edited a book.

The crack up in The Crows at 3 AM.  In those Orphan hours, like Michael Coliier's poem about birdsong, this poem has birds and other poets on birds.
The poets does away with spaces and runs lines in effect bringing to mind, different meanings of a word. after sunrise, the 'rose' recalls the flower, its colour and the verb rose of the sun and its concomitant colours in The Jay.
The sogs for the birds continue:
Still missing the jays
Vesper sparrow
Against starlings

On Dartmoor. A nature poem.
In 'Arbitrarily' the poet tries to match the pending gray of death.
Perspective. So many things must have been said about it. But the poet compares the perspective required in drawing to the one offered in life by memory, thus bridging two worlds.
Blind. A list of acquaintness with the blind, real and literary.
Ground birds in open country. The poet travels to many occurences of bird watching. We chase the birds or we are chased by them in memory.
Amidon Vhristmas Tree Farm cardinal. That bird death causing glass.
In 'I Love you' and Sitting alone in the middle of the night, Plumly acknowledges the power and presence of death.
caravaggios conversion
Some more poems
A review
An interview

Bikini like a parachute

Necrophoresis, cyclops and other poems 

The poem Necrophoresis of bees is a nature study of bees at work. While the queen enjoys reproducing, she too is obligated to work. Michael Collier's fascination with bees extends to other poems like 'The Bees of Deir Kifa'. 

Odd number of swans. The poet draws an inference out of the mated truth about swans. This insistence of previous knowledge to be traced into the scene in the present is seen in In certain situations I'm very much against birdsong. It feels like the scientists decry at anthropomorphization of animals but specific to the vocal department.
 Labyrinth is set in such a everyday place where not much happens, children play. But there is a silent interchange between the Child - the father of the man and the man at display.
My mother of invention, Grandmother with mink stole, Cyclops all in the tradition of capturing the loved ones as you remember them. Even when Memory of my mother was 'too young to recall'.
The concrete of Bint Jbeil
Attend to the sounds in The singer.
Six lines for Louise Bogan
Bikini