http://www.the-book-prowler.net Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:20:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TESTING http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/07/test/ Over the next two weeks, there will be an influx of young men and women into our home.  They will be staying for 1 day up to 2+ weeks.  They're all alumni of a program called LeapNow, in which they spend one college semester as a group traveling through foreign ... http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/leapnow-2/ It is not commonly known that William Carlos Williams was a physician as well as poet. This poem reminds me of my time as a home care nurse. Complaint They call me and I go. It is a frozen road past midnight, a dust of snow caught in the rigid wheeltracks. The door opens. I smile, enter ... http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/william-carlos-williams/ The beauty of simple paper & ink. I am intrigued by his style and infatuated with the Letterpress Print~in an odd, beautifully haunted, childhood kinda way... See more of Brian Taylor's work here http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/candykiller/ Sometimes, when deciding on a new book to read, this is how I feel: http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/so-many-books-so-little-time/ It is never enough to know what you want. The brick in your hand, dampened but solid, crumbles, and a boundary being built, in the midst of building, stops. (Why shouldn't one say what it is like? How would they ever know, otherwise?) You find in your pocket a key, two keys, one with a ... http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/the-wish-to-be-believed-2/ and I'm, gonna get married... Actually, I'm going to a book fair to exhibit my books, and will be playing Minister.  A Book Fair is a Chapel, and holds all that is Holy within.  While there, I want to marry each book to its new owner...even if it means that the ... http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/im-going-to-the-chapel-and-im-gonna-get-married/ (From the Persian Of Oumara, 10th Century) Ah, would that I could hide within my songs And, every time you sang them, kiss your lips. Black Marigolds & Coloured Stars. Translated by E. Powys Mathers, Introduction by Tony Harrison. Anvil Press, 2004. Softcover. $10.00 http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/distich/ I planned to write very little personal content on this blog (focus on the book world). But sometimes the personal takes over, as is the case with Poppy. Some stupid driver...well, you can imagine the rest. Poppy came to us with her mother and seven siblings. My daughter, Eliza, had ... http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/05/poppy/ I admit to passing on books because of their cover photos, and the blurbs on the back, especially if there’s a plethora of pink, or very high heels on legs that stop at the waist…Do publishers deliberately create these covers in an attempt to attract readers? You bet they do. ... http://www.the-book-prowler.net/2008/04/the-dumbing-down-of-women%e2%80%99s%e2%80%a6book-covers/