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doors and daydreams, or daydreams as doors
You may actually want to have read the The Way Through Doors first this time. But I wouldn’t mind a read through my, er, notes, ramblings, take..? **** The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball Vintage...
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senses required
Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball Vintage Contemporaries, 2007 291 pages. One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man’s last breath, he...
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reposting loveliness
Hurray! A guest post! My friend Leah posted a really lovely review of Tyler Perry’s film For Colored Girls (2010) and I asked if I could (re)post it here. She very generously said that I could. Left is...
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winged creatures
<Reading The Firefly Letters more than Reviewing> “Like the firefly light, Engle’s poetry is a gossamer thread of subtle beauty weaving together three memorable characters who together find hope...
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Every Thing On It
SPIDER A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And...
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{book} the curfew
To begin: When the publisher claims at the end of their synopsis that Jesse Ball’s “The Curfew is a mesmerizing feat of literary imagination,” you may think it an excitable exaggeration. It isn’t. Nor...
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{poetry} cities & theatres
The daughter has been taking a Poetry for one of her Extended Learning Opportunity (ELO) classes. The quarter culminates in a Poetry Cafe where the students read some of their work aloud. Natalya has...
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{poetry} poem in your pocket day
It is Poem in Your Pocket Day! A day where you carry a poem in your pocket to share with those around you; an opportunity to share and converse and connect with people through poetry. I have Margarita...
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{book} hold fast
a lengthy, shockingly spoiler-free, post for Blue Balliett’s latest. This isn’t an apology, merely an acknowledgment. There are so many lovely and terribly relevant explorations … Hold Fast by Blue...
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winged creatures
<Reading The Firefly Letters more than Reviewing> “Like the firefly light, Engle’s poetry is a gossamer thread of subtle beauty weaving together three memorable characters who together find hope...
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{book} hold fast
a lengthy, shockingly spoiler-free, post for Blue Balliett’s latest. This isn’t an apology, merely an acknowledgment. There are so many lovely and terribly relevant explorations … Hold Fast by Blue...
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{poetry} gary jackson
“Multiple Man: Guest-Starring Me & You” by Gary Jackson Every night I sleep on alternate sides of the bed, as if to duplicate sleeping with you. If I’m fast enough, I’m the warmth of my own body...
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resting in peace
Thursday, May 28, 2014Statement from Dr. Maya Angelou’s Family:Dr. Maya Angelou passed quietly in her home before 8:00 a.m. EST. Her family is extremely grateful that her ascension was not belabored by...
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{book} a legacy, a man, a company of men, and Ntozake Shange
Day Twenty-Nine: Ellington Was Not a Street Written by Ntozake Shange Illustrated by Kadir Nelson Simon & Schuster for Young Readers [text: 1983] 2004 The narrative of Ellington Was Not a Street...
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