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RE: What book are you reading?
December 5, 2010 at 9:45 pm
What a lovely poem, Whitman? It's very good 
John Donne's poem http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/mourning.php
" A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm
EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -
Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
The only other one who has touched me so deeply was ee cummings. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__...oems/14205
Lately I've been reading Blake and Rimbaud, but a friend lent me Borges and I love it.
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 5, 2010 at 10:14 pm
(December 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -
Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
Wow, he sure can write (Eliot). Thank-you for sharing, I read them all, and I really enjoyed Borges poem the most. I'll have to check out the others sometime as well. Haha, I have not memorized my favourite poems yet. Ted Hughes is pretty good as well! Oh yes? I got into Dickens a few years ago, not so much now...but I love Frost.
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 7:36 am
The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 2:05 pm
"I shall wear midnight" by Terry Pratchett.
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 2:42 pm
(December 6, 2010 at 2:05 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: "I shall wear midnight" by Terry Pratchett.
I expect to get this for christmas from my mum.
Its been the same every christams for at least a decade, the new pratchett thats what I get.
But what a writer, I'm currently re-reading 'feet of clay'.
I will miss his work when his dementia gets too bad for him to continue.
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 5:45 pm
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(December 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -
Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
Hehe. Well played! Shelley never ceases to amaze me: Mont Blanc.
The book I'm currently reading is "War and Peace." Almost done. I may shoot for " 1491" after that. I bought it new a year or more ago, and it's just been sitting in the reading cue, so I might try to finish it off.
(December 6, 2010 at 7:36 am)Zen Badger Wrote: The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Ahh yes, this is on my list as well. A long with The decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. Light reading, indeed.
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 5:52 pm
(December 6, 2010 at 5:45 pm)everythingafter Wrote: I bought it new a year or more ago, and it's just been sitting in the reading cue, so I might try to finish it off.
Ah...damn, I thought you were talking about the OTHER 1491. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-A...282&sr=1-1
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 6:04 pm
(December 6, 2010 at 5:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Ah...damn, I thought you were talking about the OTHER 1491. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-A...282&sr=1-1
I've seen that one at the bookstores too. Have you read it? Sounds like a good one as well.
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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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RE: What book are you reading?
December 6, 2010 at 6:08 pm
(December 6, 2010 at 6:04 pm)everythingafter Wrote: (December 6, 2010 at 5:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Ah...damn, I thought you were talking about the OTHER 1491. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-A...282&sr=1-1
I've seen that one at the bookstores too. Have you read it? Sounds like a good one as well.
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