Lots of poetry, some lit crit, and a burnt lasange. 30. Rush, by bill bissett (BookThug, 2012) Reviewed for Broken Pencil. 31. Heroines, by Kate Zambreno (Semiotext(e), 2012) When I saw it in Book City, I couldn’t resist picking it up. Zambreno looks at the “mad” literary wives of famous authors as they’re popularly portrayed, with the […]
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Brief notes on books read in February 2013. 13. Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Ashbury (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012) 14. Illyria: Haunted, by Scott Tipton (IDW, 2011) 15. Poems for an Oil-Free Coast (Red Tower Bookworks, 2012) Reviewed for Broken Pencil. 16. You Are Here, by James Pollock (Porcupine’s Quill, 2012) An excellent
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So many books to read. So little time. I’m not going to go into detail with every book, just highlight a few of them. 1. How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran (Harper, 2012) I had difficulty with this one. Moran’s clearly well read, yet this reads like a stream of consciousness monologue, only less eloquent.
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I’m trying to put together my first poetry collection, which is turning out to be way more complicated than I thought. I have all these poems, some of which have been published, but trying to gather them into something resembling a reasonably coherent book is challenging. I’ve never done this before, and I have no idea, really,
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I have an absurd number of books on my to-read shelf. These are books that I’ve bought, and physically have on my shelves, waiting to be read. I don’t know how I’m ever going to catch up, especially with all the neat books that have come out this fall, and the classics I have yet to read.
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Though it can seem like it sometimes, the world’s not all bad. Apparently whales are learning to speak human, or at least trying, and that’s pretty awesome. Maybe once they get the hang of it they can advise us how to live better. Canadian publishing is about to get smaller with Douglas & McIntyre filing for bankruptcy
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