Rules for the Dance by Mary Oliver
This book seems like a sequel to her ‘A Poetry Handbook,’ except here the focus is exclusively on metric verse. In her handbook Mary Oliver makes clear that a baseline understanding and appreciation for metric verse is essential for writing poetry that today has mostly…
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
This collection of short stories focuses on the African American community in Washington D.C. as it existed in the 1960s through at least the 1980s. I’m not saying it is representative of life for African Americans during this time as they lived in D.C. but…
Potosi; the Silver City that Changed the World by Kris Lane
I read about Potosi and this book in the New York Review of Books. I looked up the place on Wikipedia and saw an impressive photo of a forbidding urban cluster sitting beneath Cerro Rico, the silver rich mountain that is the reason that Potosi…
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
Dick is one of those writers who became more renowned after death. In part this was due to ‘Blade Runner’ the very influential film based on his novel, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Time Out of Joint is the first of Dick’s novel to…
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Awhile back I read a piece in the New York Review of Books extolling this thin guidebook to tapping into your inner cartoon generator. Recently, I started working in art journals and thought this could help me open up to new ideas and inner connections….
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