The start of something small

calendarlive.com: The start of something small

Susan Salter Reynolds, LA Times staff writer reviews a new book Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.

According the Reynolds, this book is best suited for true fans of the poet Elizabeth Bishop. People already quite familiar with her work.

tags: poetry Elizabeth Bishop poet review

Hum...

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four. You are the
classic warning against the threat of
totalitarianism. To you, politics and
philosophy are inseparable, auchtorities suck
and the reality might not exist outside our
imaginations.

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Thursday Quote

"Is getting well ever an art / Or art a way to get well"

~Robert Lowell

Trophy

A face awash in white
Veins drained of the fervent red
Trunk drawn into fetal form

Mock, mock, it is written in the air
Its taste, dingy rock salt
And perfume, essence
of nothing-

Consideration, not withstanding
The evident, apart from a picture window
Saturated in transparent misdirection,

Hard as granite, a place to rest your laurels
A baton with which to bruise
A trophy to hold

*note / original title The Air

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Is this a face...

Is this a face

you'd trust with a line-item Veto?

Another Race Picture

Meghan on the tail of another cyclist at the Saturday race in Lawrence.