Reading all of these now engage in asking what to bring forward into tomorrow’s present? I suppose all poetry is about what not to throw out. If something doesn’t matter to you, why bring it up or tart it up in font? People have the majority of their lives already comprised of minutiae that doesn’t […]
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95books in 2015, list 4: What Is and Isn't Black and White
By way of CWILA self-monitoring update: 38% female, 45% male and 17% multiple or non-binary. I think it’s important to notice because blithering along, defaults run disproportional to who is around. Not that one needs parity and equilibrium with the world, or else I’d be watching misogynist Hollywood not reading, let alone reading poetry. Here, […]
95books in 2015, list 3: Geography is Social
I’ve fallen behind in notes on #95books since April when I mentioned book 30. I’m at book 67 now. As with such things, backlog is a stressor. I’ve been reading but not posting here, only on twitter while doing readings, renos, getting spring press titles out and garden in. I had the notion of chunking […]
95Books 2015, List 2, books 18-30
I feel confident that I’ve missed some, what with too much time passing, my hard drive seizing up and my spread sheet having to be retrieved from an older back up however as books resurface I can add them. Eight Million Gods by Wen Spencer (Baen, 2013) I like every Wen Spencer novel and I […]
95Books, 2015, List 1
So, I dive in again. The first focus was to concentrate and complete, not skim and browse restlessly. To completely read and completely rest to prevent cognitive exhaustion. Next to up the percentage of people read who are not just contemporary middle class white. To focus on Canada’s classics, but not exclusively. To consider the […]