Category: books
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Salman Rushdie.
I don’t generally post about fiction because I think there are enough people writing about it, and my first love is poetry. But I have to make an exception: I’m about 20 pages from finishing Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Enchantress of Florence, and had to put it down because I want to finish it…
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Mother’s Weekend.
Even though I have to work this afternoon, that’s still what it seems like, an entire Mother’s weekend, because Lance and Vincent went out this morning to give me some quiet time before work — Lance bought Vincent a life preserver yesterday, and they drove to Ashfield Lake to go canoeing. He didn’t bring the…
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Letters to Poets.
Just found this in my University Press of New England fall 2008 catalog, and it looks very promising: from Saturnalia Books, Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community, edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax. Catalog copy: Letters to Poets honors and commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Rilke’s Letters to a Young…
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Stefanie Marlis.
I adore Stefanie Marlis‘ poems! I’m so happy I chose her book, rife, as my free book from Sarabande. She writes poems I wish I’d written, understated, lyrical, devastating. I suppose if you’ve read this blog with any consistency you’ll know that these are qualities I particularly admire in poems. In any case, I’ve ordered…
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NaPoWriMo Redux.
Our downstairs neighbor moved, taking our wireless with her, though we were unaware that she was our source until we suddenly had no internet — hence my silence here since the new month began. We took the bull by the horns, nasty beast, and signed up for a wireless account of our very own, which…
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Collected Poets Series
Next in the Collected Poets Series: This Thursday, May 1st, at 7:30pm, poets Alicia Ostriker, a major American poet and critic, and author of eleven volumes of poetry, including The Volcano Sequence and No Heaven, and Frannie Lindsay, whose newest volume of poetry, Lamb, was selected for the Perugia Press Award, will read from their…
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Mail, Glorious Mail!
Funny how a crisis robs you of time. Now it’s Saturday, and I’ve not written another poem, and I am far far behind. My personal goal is 15 poems for the month, so I have time. I shan’t give up! I have to leave for work shortly, but O the Glory of the Mail! There…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 12.
Last night I went to hear Gabriel Fried read at Amherst College. I really like his book, Making the New Lamb Take (Sarabande Books, 2007), so I was excited to go, though exceptionally tired. I’m glad I exerted the effort. He’s very sweet, and his reading style conversational. And he has the most amazing head…
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Chalk it up!
To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it — Block it up With Other — and ‘twill yawn the more — You cannot solder an Abyss With Air. — Emily Dickinson Get your sidewalk chalk and pick your poem and get to it. You only have until April 30 to get your free…
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Grilled Cheese with Bacon & Tomato kind of Night.
No poem today. Not even a revision. Back to work where my inbox was filled with nearly 600 emails and my tangible box was just full. But what a glorious day! 80 degrees! On April 18! This evening Vincent & Lance went for a walk downtown while I started making the season’s first batch of…
Marie Gauthier 