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Adam Burgess
The first half (give or take) of Claudia Rankine’s poetry collection, Citizen: An American Lyric, actually felt to me like a collection of short, flash fiction. It wasn’t until about that midpoint when the full force of Rankine’s work hit me and I suddenly… Continue Reading “Thoughts: Citizen, An American Lyric”
For the last two months, I’ve pursued some themed-reading. This is something I tried a couple of years ago as a year-long project, changing my reading theme every month, but it didn’t quite work. It seems to work better if I choose something just… Continue Reading “A Successful Poetry Month”
Have you heard the song, “July, July!” by The Decemberists? You should. This is the story of the road that goes to my house And what ghosts there do remain And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house And… Continue Reading “July, July!”
I wrap-up my Pride Month reading with two final pieces of fiction, one a classic adult novel of lesbian literature, the other a young adult novel inspired by Walt Whitman. Please feel free to check out the rest of my pride month reads. I… Continue Reading “A Lesbian Classic & Walt Whitman”
From The Aeneid of Virgil (circa 29-19 BC) Arms, and the Man I sing, who, forc’d by Fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting Hate; Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan Shoar: Long Labours, both by Sea and Land he bore; And in the doubtful War; before… Continue Reading “Six: The Aeneid”
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