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Smitha Vishwanath
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Tanka Tuesday : Alliteration, Terri’s Sunday Stills : Smoke and Tears
For Sunday Stills, Terri asks us to share pictures of smoke and tears. The prompt is inspired by the wildfires that she experienced. Her post was an eyeopener for me.
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Coming Home
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Roads: A Journey with Verses
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The Inheritance of Solitude: Poems on Hurt & Healing
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| 'Seasons and Crystals' by Balroop Singh is a book of around 22 types of syllabic poetry (haiku, senryu, haibun among the well-known types and other lesser-known ones: the madrigal, blason, imayo, tricube and many more). I have read the poet's previou ...more | |
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| Reading this book was an opportunity to revisit and understand how it feels to age, become dependent, feel alienated, and to live with the knowledge that you will not be with your loved ones for as long as you wish. As morose as it sounds, it's the t ...more | |
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I love Jhumpa Lahiri's writing for the language, vivid descriptions and the characters she weaves. I read 'Unaccustomed Earth' and watched 'Namesake'. Having read 'The Interpreter of Maladies', I intend to read other books by the author as well. This ...more |
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| Camus's writing reminded me of the protagonist in J.D.Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'. The first-person narrative, with short, direct sentences written in a reporting style and devoid of emotion, provides the reader with a peek into the protagoni ...more | |
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| The poems in this book reiterate the message of loving oneself and meeting the world with love. Cindy Georgakas does not tire of telling the reader that life was not meant to be easy, but that's not a reason to give up. The message of facing the stor ...more | |
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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