tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post6311922913306742639..comments2024-03-27T06:04:15.604-04:00Comments on The Storialist: Bookmarks/Bedside TableHannah Stephensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-6160969383947867882013-03-08T21:08:37.951-05:002013-03-08T21:08:37.951-05:00I like that Adams essay a lot for the ground it co...I like that Adams essay a lot for the ground it covers in a short space. The seemingly contradictory feeling of best experiencing a moment by consciously capturing it is a big part of my writing poetry. I also think of the Hopi, who like many tribes forbid their beautiful faces and magnificent scenery to be photographed, for much the same reason that Adams discusses, of the record supplanting the original, the pale thing replacing the living spirit. I also like the riskiness of his going old-school, tho I don’t quite follow what he means by fear, that there’s something wrong with losing the perfect image. “The conscious choice to not raise the lens,” tho, that I get!<br /><br />The dead parent essays are painful; I’m not sure the pain is ever worth lines like “when I do reach for his body, it’s almost always when I menstruate. I beg him to enter my barren place. The place where whatever life I might have carried has already slipped away.”<br /><br />These last few weeks have been strange for me reading-wise. Not one but two people shoved “Boomerang” by Michael Lewis in my hands and begged me to read it. And Jerry Rothenberg sent me an advance copy of he and Pierre Joris’s monumental “Poems of the Millennium Part 4.” I have yet to barely crack either one.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-85651046867388316742013-03-08T12:45:51.504-05:002013-03-08T12:45:51.504-05:00Several poetry books + The Book of Disquiet by Fer...Several poetry books + The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. Still. I read it in snippets. It's written in fragments!Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-9524083580438944542013-03-08T11:18:03.820-05:002013-03-08T11:18:03.820-05:00Thank you for all of your lovely links....I think ...Thank you for all of your lovely links....I think you hae read this...it is so touching<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/nora-ephrons-final-act.html?_r=0<br /><br /><br />have a great weekend HannahMrsLittleJeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08261467265044347736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-339180499097496942013-03-08T11:03:57.357-05:002013-03-08T11:03:57.357-05:00Great link list, Hannah. Have a wonderful weekend....Great link list, Hannah. Have a wonderful weekend.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.com