“Rembrandt Coupe,” above, is quoted in its entirety. So is “Manet!,” the couplet about the park benches. The other poems are just as tiny and there aren’t many of them. There’s really just one, divided into poemlets in the first half of the book and iterated as one unbroken...
As a result, in her childhood Eda became accustomed to moving from place to place — a pattern revealed in the chapter names in Childsplay: Joplin, Missouri; Neosho; Webb City; Okmulgee, Oklahoma; Embreeville, Tennessee. The one constant was her grandmother’s home in Evanston, Illinois, whe...
Let us be fair: not all is lost for Saq, the current owner. The Anchor has got an excellent business relationship with Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Bonhams. For a small 35% commission rate the Anchor is willing to put the acetate on sale at Bonhams as they already have a habit of ...
Title page of Arthur Brooke's poem, Romeus and Juliet Da Porto presented the narrative in close to its modern form, including the names of the lovers, the rival families of Montecchi and Capuleti (Cappelletti) and the location in Verona.[10] He named the friar Laurence (frate Lorenzo) an...
As Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy later wrote in his book The Unnatural History of the Nanny,“She manages to create, out of what must have been numerically a tiny proportion of her childhood months, the illusion that she had a perfect, radiant, sunny Edwardian girlhood.” A bit of Dorothy Julia...
To give us a children’s story base line, I am usingLittle Red Riding Hoodas the example book we’re reading. It is important to note that this applies throughout childhood and adolescence and arguably, we never stop developing these levels, so if you have a 4yr old, a 10yr old or...
This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Prayer Candles November 6, 2024 by margaretsmn Prayer candles in St. James Episcopal Church, 2024 by Margaret Simon I was in my childhood home church on Sunday. While the scent of incense lingered, I walked over to the columbarium to say hello to my ...
I’ve had, in many ways, an idyllic childhood. It’s only when I scratch and dig deep that I realize that much of it must have been hard. Displacement, poverty. But I never felt, experienced the poverty. We were never hungry. We always felt safe. We always felt loved. My parents ...
When Chateaubriand writes about his birth and childhood, he mentions that his mother inflicted life upon him and he wasn’t happy to live. Karma is a bitch, he’ll be on this Earth during eighty years. (September 4th, 1768-July 4th, 1848) and what eighty years! Here’s a little hist...
They weren’t the first novels I’d written; two more finished ones languished in the bottom drawer(they still have never seen the light of day and never will) and one half-finished one written in my teenage years still lurked in a box of things from childhood; and before 1990 I’d ...