Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
This book (of poems and essays by accomplished poets living with disabilities)...is "going to be one of the defining collections of the 21st century."
- Ron Silliman
Stephen Kuusisto: Do Not Interrupt: A Playful Take on the Art of Conversation (AARP)
NEW! In this erudite and playful primer on the art of conversation Stephen Kuusisto vigorously tackles the slippery subject of how to converse meaningfully with others. Kuusisto employs a wide range of personal anecdotes, classical texts, and an engaging style to illustrate his points. In seven short, provocative and imaginatively wrought chapters, he spins a compelling argument for the joys of “being connected,” and skillfully shows how to achieve this bond in everyday exchanges.
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
featured on the cover of this week's Publishers Weekly, under a cover line saying "The Making of a Bestseller 2010."
Fries Kenny: The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
John Hockenberry: Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
Gregory Orr: Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
William O'Daly: Still Another Day
nominated for a Quill Award in Poetry
Stephen Kuusisto: Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening
Lee Martin: The Bright Forever
Congratulations to Lee Martin, a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for "The Bright Forever".
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Steve and I happened to be in downtown Iowa City yesterday. I heard a helicopter approach and when it and another passed over our heads I said "It's George Bush".
Turns out I was right.
This photo captures his helicopter flying over the flooded Coralville strip.
P.S. That's all I'm sayin'.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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So, I take it you weren't comforted by his hovering presence, Connie?
Posted by: blue girl | June 20, 2008 at 10:23 AM
blue girl, I was comforted only the by fact that the noise I was hearing wasn't another swarm of gnats hovering over my head as of late.
Posted by: Connie | June 20, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Although I know there are people suffering where you guys are, I'm really happy to hear you two are ok. We've been thinking of you.
After I read your comment, I thought...May a swarm of knats hover over our head of state of years to come.
Was that wrong of me? A swarm of gnats following him around doesn't seem like too evil of a wish.
Posted by: blue girl | June 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Thanks for thinking of us, bg.
As for your wish - if you had wished for him to inhale and gag on the gnats (as I have done four times so far)- now that would have been evil. I think you're good.
Posted by: Connie | June 20, 2008 at 01:41 PM