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Book Review: Eve Ensler: 'In the Body of the World'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 24, 2013 (15:00:00)
This memoir is written in brief chapters called "scans", as Ensler scrutinizes several moments from her illness and the process of building City of Joy -- a UNICEF-supported place for female victims of gender violence in the Congo. Ensler wrote the "scans" while submitting her body to CAT scans..
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Chapter Forty of An Ecstatic Loneliness: The Marxist Priest Of Nixon In China
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (16:00:00)
I began listening to the John Adams opera, Nixon In China, for the third time … and … well … after listening to Walter Cronkite's introduction again, I stopped shortly after the first scene.
Knowing there was, at no point in the score, a moment of un-hammered beauty?!
I stopped listening..
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Reviewed: The Serpent's Promise: the Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, May 18, 2013 (16:00:00)
The Bible was not, as he claims, “a handbook to help comprehend the world”. Genesis is not “the world’s first biology textbook”. To criticise the opening line of Psalm 19 (“The heavens declare the glory of the Lord”) for “empty logic” is a strangely wooden way of reading poetry..
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Storytelling poetry in song
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 17, 2013 (15:00:00)
I think the purpose of music is often lost with us. Hooks and beats often overpower a meaningful message. Unfortunately for most, their song and their words just won't reach the audience they deserve. So, I'm going to shine a light on Howe Gelb, an honest, hardworking folk singer you should know about..
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Dan Brown's Inferno: a tall writer offers his historic review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (14:50:00)
The tall writer Steven Poole opened the wooden door of the strong house and peered at the small figure on the stone doorstep. It was a boy. Cradled in his palms the boy nervously proffered a startling object. It was the new book by the famous novelist Dan Brown..
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Album Review: Daft Punk- Random Access Memories
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:14:39)
Daft Punk delivers its first official album, Random Access Memories, in eight years after the Grammy award-winning electronic duo fanned the flames with endless teasers suggesting a return to music..
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Review: "Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books"
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (17:44:27)
This book had me diving into my current e-book projects within the first few minutes of opening the review copy, looking at how to improve the preview, feedback hooks, tagging, category choice, etc. And by the end, I had a whole checklist of sites to visit, tweaks to make, programs to sign up for. That’s how useful it is..
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Book Review: A Mystic Garden
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (13:42:31)
This lyrical primer on the spirituality of gardening reflects on the relationship between a gardener and his or her garden. Meditating upon how interaction with the earth opens the heart, schools the mind, engages the body, and embraces the soul in a world of increasing detachment from the natural realm..
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Book review: Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (04:59:29)
Alexie is a part of an elite group of authors who are successful in short fiction, long fiction, and poetry writing. Ten Little Indians is an exceptional work of short stories..
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REVIEW: "The Virtues of Poetry" by James Longenbach.
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (15:00:00)
Nobody likes to be told how to think. What's worse is when we're told how to feel. This is probably why poetry critics, when they consult the list of occupations we intensely dislike, find their job always near the top..
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Book Review: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (15:00:00)
No less a testament is her evocation of the court of Henry VIII, its factions and jealousies, its power struggles and intrigues. While Wolf Hall, the first book of the trilogy, takes the reader from 1500 through 1534 beginning with hero’s childhood and following his rise to power under the tutelage of Cardinal Woolsey and eventual role in the dissolution of the marriage to Katherine..
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Book review: '100 Favorite Verses for Women' shares scriptural insights
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (15:17:42)
Shauna Humphreys has published a new "favorites" book. This one is called, “100 Favorite Verses for Women.”
Like its predecessors, “100 Favorite Verses from the Book of Mormon” and “100 Favorite Verses to Bring You Closer to Christ,” it is a collection of scripture-based devotionals — this time directed especially to women..
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'Passages: Poems by Matthew Quinn' is hard to find and well worth the quest
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (15:15:28)
A slim, unassuming little volume tucked among the treasures in a literary basket from a local charity auction. A mere 24 pages, self-published, no expectations..
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Poetry Collection Shows How Challenges Awaken New Truths
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:10:00)
Poetry News: Each of us is given certain challenges on our journey to awaken us to new truths, expand our consciousness, and show us better ways to conduct our lives.
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Review: Mentoring Poems: Four Centuries of Selected Poetry
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: Editor:Mary Anneeta Mann:Publisher: Author House: ISBN:978-1-4490-9009-8 Many of us would have to concur that poetry is an extremely powerful tool in helping us make some sense out of a multitude of challenges that otherwise may prove difficult to comprehend.
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Film - 'The Happy Poet' Returns to Austin at Stateside Independent
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... also down-to-earth customer Agnes ( Liz Fisher ), whom Bill has a crush on, and who may seriously want to read his poetry. The humor in The Happy Poet is goofy and awkward. The scene where Bill reads his poem "Chasm" aloud had me alternately ...
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KY -- Book review | 'Selected Poems'
Posted by Tony on Sunday, May 05, 2013 (12:16:54)
Poetry News: ... Cope's own selection of the best work from all his previous collections, and it is a powerful monument to a life in poetry. Though he is also a songwriter, musician and teacher, he considers himself first and foremost a poet. He is also a heretofore ...
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A Poet Finds a Muse
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, May 04, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: Ellaraine Lockie's book of poetry, " Coffee House Confessions ," Silver Birch Press , piques my interest with its fresh ground coffee aroma that brings the promise of insights into life rising on each page.
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Found at Sea by Andrew Greig - review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (17:16:45)
Greig's destination is the Orcadian isle of Cava, a name to add fizz to any narrative though here meaning "calf island". Cava is a "deserted repeat deserted island", which is to say it has been depopulated twice..
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Reviewed: Philosophical Essays - a Critical Edition by Fernando Pessoa
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... of personae, including "Pessoa" himself. Pessoa is remembered nowadays in Portugal chiefly as a poet but much of his poetry was the work of heteronyms with different styles and philosophies nature mysticism, melancholy paganism and the futurist ...
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Speed Enforced' - a vibrant book of poems
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... will go to any length to protect that loyalty. In later poems of the volume, Peabody also meditates on the role of poetry in the world. One pointed meditation on poetry is "Library Book Sale." In this poem he laments the general public's lack of ...
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Howard Camner's Collected Poems Released! 'Poems from the Mud Room' Available No
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: May 1, 2013 - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Howard Camner's new poetry book "Poems from the Mud Room" has just been released.
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Sharon Olds
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 03, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... ion of poems that is being praised as the best book of her career, and earlier this month won the Pullitzer Prize for poetry.
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Book Review: First Loves edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (02:56:18)
Book Review: First Loves edited by Carmela Ciuraru
The subtitle of this fine book is "Poets introduce the essential poems that captivated and inspired them." Indeed, the choices of poetry are entertaining and interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Poetry Reviews: Sarah Fox, Dobby Gibson, Matt Rasmussen.
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 29, 2013 (17:00:00)
In her second book,“The First Flag,” Sarah Fox subverts the notion of a poem as a single, unified text. She uses collage, footnotes and fragmentation to create poly-vocal works with both visual and textual elements..
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