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Far Corner Reader: Keats and His Urn
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Friday, November 01, 2013. Keats and His Urn. Since every man whose soul is not a clod. Hath visions and would speak, if he had loved…. The urn itself speaks at the poem’s end, and what it says goes unchallenged except by the silence that follows it: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Is. Beauty the only truth we’ll know and the only one we need to know? Would Keats, at 60, have agreed? I'm a wr...
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Far Corner Reader: September 2008
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Monday, September 01, 2008. For All I Know. 67 pages, privately printed. Eugene, Oregon, 2008. Consider "For all I know, ." just as phrase. The phrase 'for all I know' is open to multiple interpretations. Erik Muller titles his latest book. For All I Know. Titles call attention to themselves; that's their job. Muller knows the multiple meanings in his title, and he wants them all. At root, crowns nodding. With each green shift of wind. Say to you: Blue.
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Far Corner Reader: January 2009
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Friday, January 30, 2009. By Herman Melville, 1851. The end of Moby-Dick. Starbuck sees this and draws closer to his captain, though he does not speak. Ahab turns to him and says “Oh, Starbuck! It is a mild, mild wind, and mild looking sky.”. 8212;rather a widow with her husband alive! 8221; What follows is perhaps as indicative of Melville's deep questioning as any passage he wrote. 8221; and “what happened? The book Moby Dick. Lost Horse Press site.
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Far Corner Reader: August 2013
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Anna Keesey's Little Century now out in paperback. If you've somehow missed Anna Keesey's wonderful novel of 19th century rangeland Oregon, now is the time to pick up Little Century. In paperback. Keesey's novel takes its rightful place with Molly Gloss's flawless The Jump-Off Creek. And she's right. The New York Times Book Review. Thursday, August 22, 2013. On Charles Goodrich's new book, A Scripture of Crows. Goodrich’...
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Far Corner Reader: Reading Silence: Dallas, November 22, 1963
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Reading Silence: Dallas, November 22, 1963. We read so many things. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Reading Silence: Dallas, November 22, 1963. On the Police Procedural: Peter Lovesey and Donna Le. Keats and His Urn. I'm a writer and reader interested in the collaborations books and readers make. It's "Far Corner Reader" because I live in the Pacific Northwest. View my complete profile. Lost Horse Press site.
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Far Corner Reader: June 2014
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Inside a World - On Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2012. The masterpiece Gorra discusses is, of course, Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady. We also learn of the London that James knew, of the reasons he went from handwriting to dictating, and of the likely influence that James’s time in Paris. Gorra also contextualizes Portrait. I'm a writer and read...
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Far Corner Reader: Inside a World -- On Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Inside a World - On Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2012. The masterpiece Gorra discusses is, of course, Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady. We also learn of the London that James knew, of the reasons he went from handwriting to dictating, and of the likely influence that James’s time in Paris. Gorra also contextualizes Portrait. I'm a writer and read...
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Far Corner Reader: On the Police Procedural: Peter Lovesey & Donna Leon (with a Brief Nod to Tana French)
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. On the Police Procedural: Peter Lovesey and Donna Leon (with a Brief Nod to Tana French). Though I am but a novice and erratic explorer, I sense that the large world of mystery novels holds any number of provinces, one of which is called (if I’m not mistaken) the police procedural. To help track locations in Donna Leon’s Venice, see this site: http:/ www.groveatlantic.com/leon/tour2.htm. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Far Corner Reader: January 2007
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Friday, January 05, 2007. 8220;Think, think, thinky, think”. On Richard Ford’s. The Lay of the Land. The Lay of the Land. By Richard Ford, Knopf, 2006. Richard Ford may be the contemporary true inheritor of Henry James. Ford’s hero-voice -protagonist, Frank Bascombe, fills this novel nearly to overbrimming, and as a narrator, Bascombe cannot help but connect dots – as many as possible. The "mid-line Jersey shore.". Bascombe is nothing if not candid (w...
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Far Corner Reader: August 2006
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Books and book reviews. The writing and reading life. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. John Burnside, Part 2. By John Burnside,. By any measure, Burnside’s Selected. Offers a severely limited selection indeed: drawn from eight earlier volumes, it runs only 112 pages. Of the twenty-three poems in Asylum Dance. Winner of the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, only six (the largest number for any one volume) find inclusion here. The book carries no introduction. Burnside’s Selected Poems. Begins with these three words...
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