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Shelf Life: September 2011

As this is the fourth edition of Shelf Life, if you’ve been reading this blog with any regularity, you probably have a pretty good idea what it’s about. If you don’t, check out past editions for more info. I’m going to try to make this as brief as I can, as we’re almost halfway through November, and […]

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Shelf Life: August 2011

June marked the first edition of Shelf Life, and July the second, so with August I bring you the third collection of brief notes on what I read this month. You’ll notice this month’s list has gone up in a much more timely fashion. This time I took my own advice and wrote these notes 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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