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White HeatBy Brenda Wineapple (Knopf, 416 pp., $27.95)Skilled biographer Brenda Wineapple embraces the contradictions inherent in the remarkable friendship of “two unusual, seemingly incompatible friends,” Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Here is a book that might make an especially meaningful gift for children who are watching their families “tighten their belts” in this economy. This lovely true story from the author’s childhood is a slightly-modified Jewish Holocaust children’s version of the Emily Dickinson poem: “There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any [...]
Watergate Summer (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Xena waits for Turkey ....patiently....the smells stirred something inside her....and even though she is going blind, having trouble moving and can not always remember where she was going...she sat in the kitchen on her...
Embattled Christian (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Thank you music Thank you to all the poets, singers, artists All the creative minds ever imagined and brought to past Thank you Picasso, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo… Thank you Plato, Socrates, Aristotle…. Thank you Sparta and Athens The 300 warriors at Thermoplyae Thank you to Shelley and her Frankenstein Thank you Shakespeare and his Hamlet Thank you Emily Dickinson Thank you Jane...
Karen Edmisten (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
On this Poetry Friday, a quick list of poets for whom I'm thankful (order is entirely random and does not indicate preference): Emily Dickinson Gerard Manley Hopkins Billy Collins Basho Robert Frost Richard Wilbur Francis Thompson e.e. cummings William Wordsworth Shakespeare Issa Ted Kooser Ramona Betsy Yeats Keats W.H. Auden John Paul the Great Paul Simon And I'm thankful, on this Friday...
