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Sat Nam! (Literally "Truth Name"--a Sikh greeting)
Started The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke at the beginning of the year and completed it today. I liked having a book to read in short bites whenever I had a few minutes. I'll probably do another next year for extra credit and perhaps a shorter one for the rest of this year on my own.
As in most anthologies, this one was a mixed bag. Roethke was bipolar and some of the poems are manic, word soup, crazy. Others show a deep insight in deeply gorgeous language. For my tastes, his masterpiece is The Far Field, the whole collection, not just the poem by that name. All his books are collected here, with the exception of one for children.
Here's the Current List:
3 by Alice Hoffman
Faithful Done
The Probable Future Done
The Dovekeepers Done
3 Get on with it Already!
Lila by Marilynne Robinson Done
Jazz by Toni Morrison In Process
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton Done
3 Like a Novel, Only Real
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Done
Balancing Heaven and Earth by Robert A. Johnson with Jerry M. Ruhl Done
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert Done
3 Categories, 1 Each
God's Mansion Has Many Rooms
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell Done
Upstaged/ /Seasons in the Sun
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Done
Howdy, Stranger
The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad (to be switched out, probably)
Scheduled Extra Credit:
Bits & Pieces: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Done
Tag, You're It: The Light Between Oceans
3 by Mary Stewart
Rose Cottage Done
Stormy Petrol
Thornyhold Done
Unscheduled Extra Credit:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Done
Blessings,
Siri Kirpal
Started The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke at the beginning of the year and completed it today. I liked having a book to read in short bites whenever I had a few minutes. I'll probably do another next year for extra credit and perhaps a shorter one for the rest of this year on my own.
As in most anthologies, this one was a mixed bag. Roethke was bipolar and some of the poems are manic, word soup, crazy. Others show a deep insight in deeply gorgeous language. For my tastes, his masterpiece is The Far Field, the whole collection, not just the poem by that name. All his books are collected here, with the exception of one for children.
Here's the Current List:
3 by Alice Hoffman
Faithful Done
The Probable Future Done
The Dovekeepers Done
3 Get on with it Already!
Lila by Marilynne Robinson Done
Jazz by Toni Morrison In Process
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton Done
3 Like a Novel, Only Real
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Done
Balancing Heaven and Earth by Robert A. Johnson with Jerry M. Ruhl Done
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert Done
3 Categories, 1 Each
God's Mansion Has Many Rooms
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell Done
Upstaged/ /Seasons in the Sun
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Done
Howdy, Stranger
The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad (to be switched out, probably)
Scheduled Extra Credit:
Bits & Pieces: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Done
Tag, You're It: The Light Between Oceans
3 by Mary Stewart
Rose Cottage Done
Stormy Petrol
Thornyhold Done
Unscheduled Extra Credit:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Done
Blessings,
Siri Kirpal