Archive for October, 2007

Dugan’s Last Poems

Monday, October 1st, 2007
I must admit I was beginning to tire a bit of Dugan’s Poems Seven by the time I finally finished it. Luckily, the last section entered some new areas, and Dugan’s sense of humor came to the fore, probably because by the time you reach eighty that’s about all you have left. I [...]

John Daniel’s Common Ground

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Somewhere in the past someone recommended or I read something that made me put John Daniel’s Common Ground on my Amazon wish list, and boy am I glad that I did. I read the whole 62 pages today, and ended up marking 11 poems that I really like, any one of which I could have [...]

The Eye Begins to See

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
I added a couple of new photo albums to the Gallery today. Of course, all of these photographs are photos I’ve used on this site before, so if you’re a long time user there’s nothing new to see. I’ve actually enjoyed creating these, though, as they’ve given me some new insights into my photography [...]

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
I’m back to reading more of those collected works I bought many years ago thinking that I would find time to read them, but never did. Most of the time these were contemporary poets I discovered while majoring in poetry at UW and whose collected poems I bought when it appeared later. Howard Nemerov probably [...]