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acairnofpoems.com
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| | | | I spent some 11 years travelling to and from Bangladesh, came to love the country, and have many Bangladeshi friends. One friend gave me a 1971 copy of "Gitanjali," a collection of Indian songs by Rabindranath Tagore with an introduction by W B Yeats. I have the thin book in front of me now. Tagore... | |
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acairnofpoems.com
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| | | | I came across the last four lines of this poem in Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure," the most anti-marriage novel I know. Or was it in a book about the 150 poems Hardy wrote about his wife, 149 of them after she'd died. It doesn't matter. Hardy had a very unhappy marriage, and there's a... | |
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watercresswords.com
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| | | | Here are two books I have reviewed about two women who died, one old, the other young. Both of them struggled with illness a long time and both families "kept hoping that she was just a corner away from getting back on her feet." And both families were grateful for the time they had with... | |
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gerihahn.com
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| | Cleaning my studio and taking a break to draw while listening to LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk is Playing at My House, My House" |