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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
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- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
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Stacks Archive
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Get Lost
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we mean when we talk about “losing ourselves in a good book.”... -
Book Worm Love
The books people love and the way they talk about them can be quite revealing about the way they view... -
Just Too Good to be True
Context can be everything in art. Hearing those songs again, in a fresh context, I was actually listening to them... -
Bicycle Playlist
“Bicycles move with the flow of the earth …” -
I’m Not Fancy
; “At fifty, every man has the face he deserves. To erase the lines and change the contours of... -
My Oldest Possession
Forty years ago today I received a gift, an item I’ve owned longer, and used more often, than any other... -
Return and Report
Welcome to a new segment on Stacks where I give brief reports on what I’ve been reading or listening to... -
To The Greatest Boy in the World — A Tribute
My boy, my oldest, is turning nine tomorrow. He is still young, but in the last six months, there have... -
Rock of Ages
In the last few years I’ve become a fan of Swedish death metal. There, I said it. -
Awakenings
“True spirituality is not a defense against the uncertainties, pain and danger in life, not an ‘an inoculation,’ as Joseph... -
Myo
I am a Sunday Painter, an I-storyteller, a blogger with a miniscule audience in a big, noisy world. Oftentimes, I... -
Foolish Love
My husband likes to attribute a lot of our personality quirks to generational influences. In his eyes, we are deeply... -
Forget the Rules
I am moving to a new house this week and I’ve had a surprisingly hard time adjusting to that fact.... -
Read More Adventurously
When was the last time you tried a book you expected to hate? -
Seminal Works – Exile in Guyville
But, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third... -
Reading in the New Year
I still like to keep track of the end of year book lists because if, heaven forbid, I ever make... -
15 Best Albums of 2010 (so far)
Despite the fun of tidying up a year’s worth of music listening into a concise list and orderly rankings, end... -
Seminal Works — Kind of Blue
Sometimes hype is justified, Kind of Blue earns its reputation with every listen. -
Banned
Some conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves. -
Fermentation
Whilst I have lived in England I have been struck by the cross pollination of many musical genres under the... -
File Sharing
My iTunes library is an autobiography of all my relationships. There is the musical theater from my parents, the... -
Seminal Works — Gilead
This meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to... -
Being Awesome
You cannot try to be awesome, you must be awesome….that is the law of awesome -
15 Favorite …
Personally, I’m a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they’re hardly... -
A Guide to Life
One day, when I was about nine-years-old and in this mode, I came across a book that would change my... -
Keeping My Hand In
Four years on, I’m in a slump and I’m really just keeping my hand in. -
Follow the Prophet
When we enter the world of art, we are at war and our choices can either be an act of... -
Tasteless
I think I’ve started to lose my taste. For years, I’ve prided myself on having good taste in books. I... -
Stacks
There are stacks of books and CDs on almost every flat surface of my house. Next to my bed is...