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Shelf Life: August 2012

Very brief comments on a lengthy list of books read in August. A banner month. 101. The History of Tattooing, by  Wilfrid Dyson Hambly (Dover, reprinted 2009) I love tattoos. At the time I read this I had only two, but for months I had been looking for an artist to complete my third and fourth. As I […]

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Book shopping

I acquire books the way some go for shoes: I see something I want and simply must have it. Before going shopping on Saturday I asked the Twitterverse to recommend poets I should read, and I received some good suggestions: Anne Sexton from @la_panique, Louis Untermeyer from @szul, Robinson Jeffers from @davidbmetcalfe (thanks guys!) and I added a

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