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Claudia Putnam
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Undset, K Kesey, Silko, Ondaatje, Fowles, Dostoevsky, McCarthy, Le Gui
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I’m reading poetry (and maybe a bit of fiction) his weekend! (10/25)
POETRY READING: It’s been a while since I’ve been able to do a public reading. So glad I was invited to be the featured reader at this wonderful open mic tradition! Marmo Gallery, in Shelton, WA, is a cornerstone of the artistic community in this region. Worth checking out for its own sake. And the food is awesome! Sat, 10/25, 4 PM. more info: marmogallery.com/events
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Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest
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Double Negative
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The Land of Stone and River: Poems
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Seconds
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Wild Thing in Our Known World
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2013
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Flint Hills Review (#9 & #10)
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
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Claudia Putnam
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
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| Audiobook via Libre.fm. Extremely interesting—good science communicator. Suspect his timelines are rather optimistic re the future. I recently looked up how much CO2 is in the atmosphere. It’s a tiny tiny percentage. And I guess it’s a super delicate ...more | |
“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was little I wondered about that place, how it could be so beautiful and so lost. Sometimes it seemed that the land around my New England home was like that flooded country, with mud where the streets of gold should be and mayflies swarming where there should be lovely fishes, but here and there a shard of crystal to call the heart to beauty. --"Wetlands," in Phoebe.”
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“Cairn Stone
This is the rock he lifted
to lay upon a cairn
in a high place.
This rock, warmed by the near sun,
felt right, somehow, in his hand.
He decided to carry it down
to his mother, who lay in bed,
recovering.
It is so easy to please
a mother. Just to think of her
for a moment, from a high place,
and to carry that thought to her
in the form of a stone.”
― Wild Thing in Our Known World
This is the rock he lifted
to lay upon a cairn
in a high place.
This rock, warmed by the near sun,
felt right, somehow, in his hand.
He decided to carry it down
to his mother, who lay in bed,
recovering.
It is so easy to please
a mother. Just to think of her
for a moment, from a high place,
and to carry that thought to her
in the form of a stone.”
― Wild Thing in Our Known World
“I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that?
We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we’ve just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire”
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We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we’ve just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire”
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“I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that?
We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we’ve just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire”
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We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we’ve just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire”
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“Cairn Stone
This is the rock he lifted
to lay upon a cairn
in a high place.
This rock, warmed by the near sun,
felt right, somehow, in his hand.
He decided to carry it down
to his mother, who lay in bed,
recovering.
It is so easy to please
a mother. Just to think of her
for a moment, from a high place,
and to carry that thought to her
in the form of a stone.”
― Wild Thing in Our Known World
This is the rock he lifted
to lay upon a cairn
in a high place.
This rock, warmed by the near sun,
felt right, somehow, in his hand.
He decided to carry it down
to his mother, who lay in bed,
recovering.
It is so easy to please
a mother. Just to think of her
for a moment, from a high place,
and to carry that thought to her
in the form of a stone.”
― Wild Thing in Our Known World
“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was little I wondered about that place, how it could be so beautiful and so lost. Sometimes it seemed that the land around my New England home was like that flooded country, with mud where the streets of gold should be and mayflies swarming where there should be lovely fishes, but here and there a shard of crystal to call the heart to beauty. --"Wetlands," in Phoebe.”
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“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
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