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Poems for the very busy senior executive

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Here’s a bit of Fry & Laurie.

I love that the Seattle Public Library stocks older BBC videos and DVDs. I also love Stephen Fry’s jacket.

Third Place Books

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Today’s haul:

Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
Mary Oliver: Red Bird
Frank Herbert: Heretics of Dune

15 books

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The latest Facebook fad is listing 15 things that will “always stick with you.” One that interested me enough to participate was “15 books.”

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1984 by George Orwell
Till We Have Faces by C.S. [...]

“The Great Order of the Universe” turns out to be LEGO

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Cross-posted from The Brothers Brick.
I’m a little bit behind on my poetry journals, so I was very pleased to receive a link from Vito to an item featured in the current issue of Poetry Magazine.

The text on the left is a translation of a section from “The Great Order of the Universe” by Greek philosopher [...]

Amazon, Powell’s, and eBay

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Recent book purchases:

Matthew Arnold: The Portable Matthew Arnold
Wendell Berry: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Robert Bly: Eating the Honey of Words
Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetry
Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems
Kilala Kitamoto: LEGO book museum Vol. 1
W.S. Merwin: Selected Poems
William Stafford: The Way It Is
William Stafford: Writing the Australian Crawl
David Wagoner: Dry Sun, Dry Wind (First Edition)