The English Geek : from Rilke

Sunday, June 14, 2009

from Rilke

wanting to blog but feeling completely slammed by getting ready for our trip. So, this idea from Rilke will have to suffice:

"The greatest portion of fleetingness, frailty, and instability is a consequence of the not-having-been of so many people. It is not enough to have been born in order to be. One must splice oneself into some great circuit; but one must also insulate oneself, in order not to mischannel, not to use up, not to lose the current that one carries."

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November 2009

Books I'm Reading Now

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Stephen Dobyns: Best Words, Best Order, 2nd Edition: Essays on Poetry
I LOVE this book. But I am, remember, the English Geek. Essays about metaphor and imagery and the place of beauty in art make me happy.
Michael Ondaatje: Handwriting: Poems (Vintage International)
Feeding my poetry obsession.
T. H. Watkins: Stone Time, Southern Utah: A Portrait & A Meditation
I keep this in the car to read when I'm waiting in a drive-through line. I like that the author draws a connection between the desert and sacredness.
Rosalind Wiseman: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
Just preparing myself for Haley's adolescent storms. Although, as a former teenaged girl, I'd recommend this to anyone who went through the crucible that is junior high school. A few of my own demons have been put to rest through this book. Plus I feel a little bit more capable of dealing with Haley's eventual issues.
Paulette Jiles: Enemy Women: A Novel
Did you know that during the Civil War, women in the south were imprisoned in the north for helping the Confederate cause? (Even when they weren't really helping the Confederate cause.) I didn't. This book tells that story. It's sort of like Cold Mountain---not quite as good, but definitely a book I'd recommend!

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