Month: June 2011
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Magical Thinking
If I’m mired in grief, it’s not for Mum’s death alone. Since March there have been so many losses: four mothers dead, and only one of them mine, and another just 42, just last week. This will surprise no one, but it’s not my grief that’s the most difficult, but the anguish of these bereft […]
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In which I’m interviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey:
Some of the books I want to write about in the coming days are The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr and Honeycomb by Carol Frost, a varied list that has, to my mind, a clear through-line. But not today. Today, I give you a link to […]
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“Every lament is a love-song.”*
Many summer Sundays growing up, my family would get up at dawn, skip church, and instead head out to the beach at the Myles Standish State Forest in Carver, MA. Not just my immediate family, but a huge swath of aunts, uncles, and cousins — Mum was a Georgia girl, but Dad was born & […]
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Chard deNiord & Thomas Lux (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 7:00 pm, poets Chard deNiord and Thomas Lux will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge St, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) Chard deNiord is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Night […]
Marie Gauthier 