Archive for November, 2008

Mine, Mine

Saturday, November 1st, 2008
The weather’s turned downright rainy and dreary here in the Puget Sound area, with not much chance of getting pictures of birds or nature. But I just realized that there was a new version of Photoshop PS$ available, so I had to download the new version and give it a spin. Most of [...]

Charm Against a Rainy Day

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Digging for China

Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I’ve just finished reading the volumes “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” and “Advice to a Prophet,” the first volumes of Wilbur I ever bought. I still think Wilbur’s “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” is his masterpiece, comparable to Marvel’s “To His Coy Mistress,” but I’ve already [...]

Wilbur’s “A Wood”

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
In “Waking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations(1969)” and “The Mind-Reader: New Poems (1976)” Wilbur, as the title indicates, introduces a number of translations to his work. Wikipedia notes, that he is known not only for his translation of poems but of several French plays. Personally, I found the translations less interesting than his [...]