April 30, 2008
Good Poems, selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor, is a lovely collection of lyrically poems from classic and modern poets. There is something here for everyone in the well-designed categories: O Lord, A Day, Music, Scenes, Lovers, Day’s Work, Sons and Daughters, Language, A Good Life, Beasts, Failure, Complaint, Trips, Snow, Yellow, Lives, Elders, The [...]
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April 23, 2008
I recently started reading The Whaleboat House (also known as Amagansett) by Mark Mills. The book starts with a beautiful poem (“From Montauk Point”) by Walt Whitman: I stand as on some mighty eagle’s beak, Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,) The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance, [...]
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