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Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ben Groner III
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Dust Storms May Exist: Poems
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"Really enjoyed this collection of beautiful images and travelogues."
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Cassie, I’m glad you enjoyed it! It’s been so gratifying for me to hear people’s reactions after reading these poems. I appreciate you noting your opi
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Dust Storms May Exist: Poems:
"Groner worked at Parnassus Books in Nashville, and the book was recommended when I visited last week. I love to pick up local Poetry when I travel. This collection takes the reader on a road trip, travels through time, and into familial relationships"
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Tiffany, thank you so much for buying my book and taking the time to write a little something after reading it! I too seek out local poetry and indepe
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| The opening poem—which is so assured I had to read it twice before continuing to the next page—begins by praising poets “faithful to work that will meet / with quiet.” Kiefer may be such a poet, but her work should be met with much more: admiration, ...more | |
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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