To continue on the 95 books project, the next few I’ve been pecking away at, each glad I have the opportunity to read. This time with excerpt of some that I found particularly wowing, and wanted as first impulse to hand-copy then retype as a way of thinking on it again. How to Live on […]
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What is Being Said
In Rae Armantrout’s 2007 book, Collected Prose she considers linear vs. lateral thinking as ways of expressing. In a quote of that she says, “When people ask me what I mean in a poem or whether I mean it, I’m stymied. I mean/don’t mean. I mean that experience is double, that doubleness is the essence […]
95 Books, Part 5
There are books I bought, because they looked interesting in passing, or at writers festival, or while traveling. Those are on my list. And some meant-to-reads that kept getting bumped off the top of the list by ones that fell into my lap physically. Maybe I’ll expand what I did before and put a one-line […]
Charles Wright
Virginian poet Charles Wright was interviewed on PBS a couple years ago.He struck me as humble and purposeful. Each word is carefully considered and placed, not with patting it down but opening something up. He seems more of a archivist who considers than a preacher who tries to convince. His poems seem more the outcomes […]
95 Books, Part 4
A research group compiled the 1000 most popular titles owned by libraries worldwide. LibraryThing lists books that are in the zeitgeist. Traditionally I’ve considered that if something is popular it’s safely covered and will be carried into the future. I can expend my energies on other things. So the next chunk of the 95Books endeavour […]