Category Archives: Writers and Writing

Amazon.com: Profile For Anne Rice: Reviews

Posted on 6 April 2010 by

Amazon.com: Profile For Anne Rice: Reviews. I was looking at a recent translation of the Short and Long Texts of the Revelation of Julian of Norwich when I spotted a highly favorable review from an unexpected source: Author Anne Rice, … Continue reading →

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Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Posted on 6 April 2010 by

I just helped to process a rush order on a new book here at work: Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson.  It’s a children’s book aimed at middle school readers; it’s also a fictional young black boy’s memoir written entirely in poetry. … Continue reading →

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Afterthought on Eliot

Posted on 3 April 2010 by

I first read T.S. Eliot as a precocious teenager already in college; I must have been thirteen or fourteen. I didn’t like his poetry, but it made a deep impression on me all the same. I remember writing at least … Continue reading →

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This FWA hits even closer to home than usual

Posted on 4 November 2009 by

When Dante was nine years old, long before he became one of Italy’s supreme poets, he fell in love with Beatrice, an eight-year-old girl he met at a May Day party. They never had a close relationship. In the years … Continue reading →

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Deep inside your own heart

Posted on 29 December 2008 by

It’s a pity, a gentleman in refined retirement composing poetry: He models his work on the classic verse of China, And his poems are elegant, full of fine phrases. But if you don’t write of things deep inside your own … Continue reading →

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Report from the trenches

Posted on 11 December 2008 by

Very busy at work today–tasks left over from yesterday plus a new shipment to process.  To quote my boss, “YUCK!” On the plus side, I have a copy of Rilke’s Duino Elegies, as translated by Edward Snow, and three pre-programmed Christmas … Continue reading →

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Tom’s hermit shack and webcam

Posted on 10 December 2008 by

On this day in 1968, Thomas Merton, monk and writer, died while attending a conference of Buddhist and Christian monastics in Bangkok.  He was apparently electrocuted by contact with a standing floor fan, possibly while still wet from a shower.  … Continue reading →

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Comfort, if not quite joy

Posted on 5 December 2008 by

This was the morning that always comes upon me this time of year: The morning when I feel I just can’t face the world and its demands of me without the consolation of hearing A Charlie Brown Christmas before I … Continue reading →

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Words of good counsel

Posted on 28 November 2008 by

I came back from lunch to find this entry on Livejournal from Feri witch Thorn Coyle: Note to Self: Do not believe anything – even personal revelation – that you have not brought into your practice. Do not believe anything … Continue reading →

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Links to delight and enlighten you

Posted on 25 November 2008 by

From author Brendan Myers, “How to fight bad books“, specifically bad books about the ancient Celts, their druids, and their religions. From Havi Brooks, habits educator (and her partner Selma the duck), a wonderful series of blog posts on blogging.  … Continue reading →

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