Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
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Then, book in hand, I kept a doctor’s appointment and, looking about the waiting room, furtively folded back the cover so no one would get the wrong idea about me. Wherefore my shame.
Interestingly, there are birds that speak in some of the classics under review. Equally fascinating ... in the first of the oldest stories in the book. The verses by the first Buddhist women ...
A woman named Estela García sits alone in an interrogation cell and begins talking to the police she assumes are listening in from another room. She’s 40 years old, born to a single mother in ...
Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Tamar was able to recover the Manawanui’s navigation record book, a New Zealand ... whether it had launched its own review or made any immediate changes ...
and whether he writes very well or very badly hardly matters — as long as he gets the books written and is, indeed, present in them. (It’s strange that something so simple, so seemingly ...
I honestly don’t know how much I would have enjoyed Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Tell Me Everything, if I hadn’t already been familiar with the major characters from her previous books. There’s ...