A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
— Robert Frost-
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eBook Week, Meta-Memoir
The Reader is Horizontal As I wrote yesterday, this week is “Read an eBook Week.” While the printed book is in no danger of extinction, technological innovations, as well as business model innovations, make it clear that the way books … Continue reading
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eBook Week, We Are the World
Living in Interesting Times This week, March 7 through 13, is “Read an eBook Week.” Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords.com, has an interview at Huffington Post with Rita Toews, who created the annual event in 2004, long before all … Continue reading
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Doomed Couples
In 1960, Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award. The title story of the collection is a novella that tells of the doomed romance between Neil Klugman, a recent class college graduate who works in a library and … Continue reading
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