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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 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?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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Stacks Archive
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Myo
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 8 CommentsI am a Sunday Painter, an I-storyteller, a blogger with a miniscule audience in a big, noisy world. Oftentimes, I feel a mild sense of despair over my lack of talent or panic with each approaching deadline. I'm not going to set the world on fire with my musings on Miss Piggy or Liz Phair, but I am keeping something lit within me. -
Foolish Love
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 7 CommentsMy husband likes to attribute a lot of our personality quirks to generational influences. In his eyes, we are deeply earnest, but pathologically afraid of cheesiness or sentimentality (to such a degree that almost all of our shows of affection tend to be in joke […] -
Forget the Rules
Posted on January 25, 2011 | 11 CommentsI am moving to a new house this week and I’ve had a surprisingly hard time adjusting to that fact. As dread has constantly threatened to take me over, one of my favourite passages from the Tao Te Ching has been running through my head […] -
Read More Adventurously
Posted on January 18, 2011 | 12 CommentsWhen was the last time you tried a book you expected to hate? -
Seminal Works – Exile in Guyville
Posted on January 11, 2011 | 13 CommentsBut, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third wave of feminism, when you believe in equality, but you aren't quite sure how it is supposed to look. -
Reading in the New Year
Posted on January 4, 2011 | 23 CommentsI still like to keep track of the end of year book lists because if, heaven forbid, I ever make it all the way through the stack on my bedside table (technically that stack has overflowed into a stack beside the table) or find myself stymied one summer day while pondering the quick selection rack at the library, I want to have a few ideas in my back pocket. -
15 Best Albums of 2010 (so far)
Posted on December 21, 2010 | 14 CommentsDespite the fun of tidying up a year's worth of music listening into a concise list and orderly rankings, end of year lists are always fluid for me. Things will change. -
Seminal Works — Kind of Blue
Posted on December 14, 2010 | 8 CommentsSometimes hype is justified, Kind of Blue earns its reputation with every listen. -
Banned
Posted on December 7, 2010 | 23 CommentsSome conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves. -
Fermentation
Posted on November 30, 2010 | 9 CommentsWhilst I have lived in England I have been struck by the cross pollination of many musical genres under the guise of indie. What is indie? It's exactly what it sounds like -- independent music -- but it's a bit of a minefield, you have to be careful. -
File Sharing
Posted on November 23, 2010 | 8 CommentsMy iTunes library is an autobiography of all my relationships. There is the musical theater from my parents, the Tori Amos and Ani DiFranco from one of my oldest friends. The Outkast and Lupe Fiasco came from my Hip-hop loving brothers -- we have, since our teens, been doing musical cultural exchanges, like the Judgment -
Seminal Works — Gilead
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 11 CommentsThis meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to overstate the spare, lyrical beauty of Robinson's prose or the complexity and intellectual rigor she brings to her writing. -
Being Awesome
Posted on November 9, 2010 | 17 CommentsYou cannot try to be awesome, you must be awesome....that is the law of awesome -
15 Favorite …
Posted on November 2, 2010 | 15 CommentsPersonally, I'm a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they're hardly ever revelatory. -
A Guide to Life
Posted on October 26, 2010 | 11 CommentsOne day, when I was about nine-years-old and in this mode, I came across a book that would change my life -
Keeping My Hand In
Posted on October 19, 2010 | 18 CommentsFour years on, I'm in a slump and I'm really just keeping my hand in. -
Follow the Prophet
Posted on October 12, 2010 | 10 CommentsWhen we enter the world of art, we are at war and our choices can either be an act of brilliant heroism or pathetic cowardice. When you look back at the music you have listened to, are you filled with the pride a veteran might have for the medals he's won, or do you quietly brush off your associations with the bands you used to listen to? -
Tasteless
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 66 CommentsI think I’ve started to lose my taste. For years, I’ve prided myself on having good taste in books. I have carved my reading material up into different categories and congratulated myself on the breadth and diversity of my appetite as the kind of reader […] -
Stacks
Posted on October 4, 2010 | 4 CommentsThere are stacks of books and CDs on almost every flat surface of my house. Next to my bed is a tantalizing stack of; books I haven’t read yet. Beside the books waiting in the wings are the recently read, which I’m; not quite ready […]