I loved Olivia’s book and its take on world/future/language imagining. The other two have been on my to-read list for a while, but your lovely piece has bumped them up!
"things are both present and absent" - So true Linda!
Your Building Worlds Startling was a long read for me - a very slow dyslexic reader - but full of inspiration to read more. The Sealey Challenge would overwhelm me.
Whenever I go to the Scottish Poetry Library, I borrow six books - but seldom read all the poems. My current selections are Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters; Joseph Skipsey, selected poems edited by Basil Bunting; The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie; Painted Spoken 42 (ed. Richard Price); This Present Moment by Gary Snyder - the last little poem in the book - white letters on black paper without a title. The first line is the title of the book:
This present moment
that lives on
to become
long ago
I'm also reading selected poems by Emily Dickinson . . . .
A prose book was given to me in early June for my birthday: Healing Resistance - a radically different response to harm, by Kazu Haga https://www.kazuhaga.com/ I read most mornings over breakfast - only another 50 pages.
thank you for continuing to startle me and prod me to read more . . .
Thanks, Sukhema – it sounds as if you read a great deal for someone with dyslexia. Good to keep exercising those muscles, I think. Especially when you write too. I found Karen Solie's The Caiplie Caves very absorbing – admire it a great deal. Lx
I loved Olivia’s book and its take on world/future/language imagining. The other two have been on my to-read list for a while, but your lovely piece has bumped them up!
Thanks, Hannah. I hope your own work is going as you'd like. Have a good summer. Lx
"things are both present and absent" - So true Linda!
Your Building Worlds Startling was a long read for me - a very slow dyslexic reader - but full of inspiration to read more. The Sealey Challenge would overwhelm me.
Whenever I go to the Scottish Poetry Library, I borrow six books - but seldom read all the poems. My current selections are Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters; Joseph Skipsey, selected poems edited by Basil Bunting; The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie; Painted Spoken 42 (ed. Richard Price); This Present Moment by Gary Snyder - the last little poem in the book - white letters on black paper without a title. The first line is the title of the book:
This present moment
that lives on
to become
long ago
I'm also reading selected poems by Emily Dickinson . . . .
A prose book was given to me in early June for my birthday: Healing Resistance - a radically different response to harm, by Kazu Haga https://www.kazuhaga.com/ I read most mornings over breakfast - only another 50 pages.
thank you for continuing to startle me and prod me to read more . . .
Sukhema
Thanks, Sukhema – it sounds as if you read a great deal for someone with dyslexia. Good to keep exercising those muscles, I think. Especially when you write too. I found Karen Solie's The Caiplie Caves very absorbing – admire it a great deal. Lx
oh Linda, thank you so much for taking the time not only to read but to write about my book. warmly appreciated.
You're very welcome – it's a fascinating and beautifully written book. Enjoy your summer. Lx