Category: books
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For the Squirrels:
A Fable, by Karin Gottshall There was a girl who set out with a tiger on a long journey. She’d never before left her home but he came to her with his startled eyes and she left the dishes drying on the wooden rack, the linens folded in the closet, left her flowered dresses and…
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A Sporadic Interlude.
Aidan is sleeping, and Vincent is thoroughly absorbed in cutting newspaper into itty-bitty pieces with his little scissors — one of a few sporadic interludes of quiet time I manage each day. It could end at any second, though — we have squirrels running around in our ceilings, between the 2nd & 3rd floors, egads…
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From Not for Mothers Only:.
From Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting & Child-Rearing, edited by Catherine Wagner & Rebecca Wolff: Cesarean Now the irises rage light, spiked tongues at the hospital window Inside the body’s solarium light shrinks to cold flat stone How I would like to just unravel Through glass, cut leaves curl like fingers in…
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Collected Poets Series, Jan. Edition.
Our first event of 2009, and it promises to be an exciting night — c-section or no, you can bet I’m not missing this! On Thursday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the Collected Poets Series presents Art & Poetry in Motion: Jeffrey Levine, prizewinning poet and editor, whose latest collection is Rumor of Cortez, and…
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Lisa Russ Spaar.
Forgive the silence — our household is utterly entrenched in illness, and it appears that it will remain so for the immediate future as a virulent cold virus holds us hostage. In the meantime, I’ve been reading Lisa Russ Spaar’s Satin Cash, which contains such lush, smart language — I spent Vincent’s too-brief naptime letting…
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Collected Poets Series, Dec. Edition
This Thursday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 pm, the December 2008 edition of the Collected Poets Series features 3 poets: Dzvinia Orlowsky, prizewinning poet, translator, and author of four poetry collections including her most recent, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones; Jeff Friedman, poet, translator and author of four books of poems, most recently, Black Threads; and…
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The Plath Cabinet.
One of the things I’m going to miss when the store finally closes is the vast array of catalogs I receive, the plugged-in aspect of being a book buyer. I love knowing what’s coming out next season, who has new books and when. But there’s frustration there, too. Today I received the University Press of…
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Camille Paglia’s strong medicine.
The Fall 2008 issue of Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics includes the piece, “Final Cut: The Selection Process for Break, Blow, Burn,“ by Camille Paglia. I read Break, Blow, Burn and have a copy of it here somewhere, and while I don’t agree with every choice, what I appreciate about Camille Paglia…
Marie Gauthier 