Archive for January, 2004
Saturday, January 3rd, 2004
Although ironically enough the anti-religious site “Is America a Christian Nation?” appears as the first entry when you do a Google search on “Is America a Christian Nation?”, the most common reply is the one found at sites like “America’s Godly Heritage,” where it’s charged that “active humanists and the liberal media have for years [...]
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2004
Don’t give up on me yet, folks. I’m almost back to posting on poetry. I’ve nearly finished Sharon Olds’ The Unswept Room
and should be posting on that tomorrow (especially now that I’ve said I would).
I probably would have finished my first entry today, but Tacoma got a rare snowstorm last night and [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004
It’s never a good sign when it takes me a long time to read a book of poetry, and I started reading Sharon Olds’ The Unswept Room just before Christmas when I was waiting in the airport Christmas Eve to pick up Tyson, Jen and Logan. Reading the first poems, I decided that they were [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
I like to tell myself that I read poetry to discover new ideas, to see the world in new ways. Sometimes when I read a book like Richard Hugo’s White Center, though, I realize I also read to rediscover old truths. Poetry can help to see the world in new ways, but it [...]
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