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Saturday, February 27, 2021

"Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" (Gary Snyder)

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Down valley a smoke haze Three days heat, after five days rain Pitch glows on the fir-cones Across rocks and meadows Swarms of new flies...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)

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City Lights Books has announced the death of its co-founder, the writer, bookseller, and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, after an asto...
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Sunday, February 21, 2021

The Character of the Cassowary

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I wish I were a cassowary Out on the plains of Timbuctoo. I'd kill and eat a missionary-- Head, arms, legs, and hymn-book too. ...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Weeks of Inward Winter (Charlotte Brontë)

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"Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other walled-in and guarded dwellings, are l...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

The Memory of Things (Charlotte Brontë)

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There's an intriguing recognition scene about 200 pages into Charlotte Brontë's final novel, Villette . The narrator, Lucy Snowe, is...
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Friday, January 22, 2021

One of the most desperate characters in the City

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Over the years I've devoted several posts to the colorful early history of Manhattan's Water Street Mission, an institutio...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Notes for a Commonplace Book (29)

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Thomas De Quincey: Of this at least, I feel assured, that there is no such thing as forgetting possible to the mind; a thousand accidents m...
Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Nobody Should Be Surprised

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If anyone in this country is still harboring illusions about the man in the White House and his core of thugs, it's about time they aske...
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Saturday, January 02, 2021

Blackburn & Cortázar: The Correspondence

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Today, entirely by accident, I learned of the existence of this bundle of eight chapbooks published in 2017 by the Center for Humanities at ...
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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Necrology

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Three masters, three obits. Just an average day in 2020. Rest in peace. Barry Lopez Phil Niekro Tony Rice
Thursday, December 24, 2020

A Parting

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I came to this book by way of Coleridge and Wordsworth, both of whom are profiled, usefully if somewhat eccentrically, in its pages, but sta...
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Sunday, December 20, 2020

The Waters of the Deep

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William Wordsworth: ... once in the stillness of a summer's noon, While I was seated in a rocky cave By the sea-side, perusing, so ...
Monday, December 14, 2020

The Indifference of the Dead

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Machado de Assis: In life, the watchful eye of public opinion, the conflict of interests, the struggle of greed against greed oblige a ...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2020

How to Change a Flat Tire (Update)

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A friendly note from one of the former members of this American-based Celtic music group from the 1970s and '80s has brought some unexpe...
Thursday, December 03, 2020

Beans

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Thomas De Quincey: Mr. Poole propounded the following question to me, which I mention because it furnished me with the first hint of a singu...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Virgil

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Richard Holmes: Coleridge continuously haunts De Quincey's pages, as a sort of battered Virgilian guide to the opium Inferno. Co...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Circular

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There are few things in life I enjoy as much as acquiring books — maybe even moreso than reading them — but I've reached a point where d...
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Sunday, November 22, 2020

That White House story...

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This isn't an easy moment for people who perform in front of an audience for a living, but musicians, actors, and the like still need to...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

Joy

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Today was a beautiful day and I'm not just thinking of the blue skies and unseasonably mild weather here in New York State. I'm a sk...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

When the Ship Comes In

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Arlo Guthrie's version of an early Bob Dylan composition feels like just what I need today. And the sands will roll Out a carp...
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