Tag: poetry

• Poems that remind me of dear ones.

  There’s a poem by Jacqueline Berger in her collection, Things That Burn, that so much reminds me of one of my oldest friends: the idea, the way it’s expressed, it’s quintessential Kristin: …Charlotte tells me it’s not obsession she admires, but eccentricity, people who fall in love with the tree outside their window and for…

  mariegauthier

  January 5, 2008

  poetry

  Jacqueline Berger, poetry

• New Books!

  My W. W. Norton sales rep canceled our meeting this morning due to the plague, but I’ve looked through the catalogs already, and the poetry list is awe-some: Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from 8 Great Masters. How to read a poem & why. by Josephine Hart, includes 80 min audio CD recorded live…

  mariegauthier

  January 3, 2008

  poetry

  beth ann fennelly, books, elizabeth spires, gerald stern, honor moore, josephine hart, lisa williams, molly peacock, poetry, simon armitage, stanley plumly

• Living Deliberately.

  I’m reading Baron Wormser’s (former poet laureate of Maine) memoir (I guess strictly speaking it’s a memoir, though it’s not so narrowly me-me-me), The Road Washes Out in Spring, which is about the 20-odd years he lived with his family in the woods in Maine without electricity, running water, or any modern conveniences whatsoever.  (It’s…

  mariegauthier

  January 2, 2008

  poetry

  Baron Wormser, memoir, poetry, woods