Gar, it's not Human Family is it? [link]
The one that I think is quite beautiful, but thematically totally different is Passing Time [link]
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Aug 04, 2010 7:31:00 pm PDT #11827 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Typo Boy - Aug 04, 2010 7:50:20 pm PDT #11828 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Both those poems are beautiful, but not the one I heard. Again it specifically listed ways to describe various skin shade. I wonder this was hers or if she was reading someone else's poem?
Kat - Aug 04, 2010 8:00:18 pm PDT #11829 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yeah, I see a passing reference to both Angelou and a poem that could be that one in jstor, but I no longer have jstor access. Though I could check when i'm on campus tomorrow.
Typo Boy - Aug 04, 2010 8:20:50 pm PDT #11830 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh if you would that would be very nice - if you have time. I mean obviously no medical consequences will happen if I never learn the name of the poem, but not knowing kind of - itches, if that makes sense.
erikaj - Aug 05, 2010 6:04:07 am PDT #11831 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
Alice Walker writes poems, too...it could be something of hers. Unless you've confirmed it's Angelou of course.
Typo Boy - Aug 05, 2010 6:43:48 am PDT #11832 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well I hear Angelou read it. But she read most her own poems on that interview, but some other people's too. So it was not neccessarily hers. Though I'm guessing if not her, someone not on the same level of famous.
Kat - Aug 05, 2010 12:20:30 pm PDT #11833 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Typo, the Jstor article doesn't have the poem or the title and in fact talks about the skin color thing in only the broadest terms. I might assume it's someone else's poems.
Typo Boy - Aug 05, 2010 1:18:33 pm PDT #11834 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Probably right. And my googlefu does not seem to be up to this.
Laga - Aug 05, 2010 8:19:49 pm PDT #11835 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I have finished Moby Dick.
The story is ripe for a new film version. When Ishmael was describing what Ahab saw the first time they lost Moby (the white speck coming up from the blue resolving into the gaping jaws) it was in technicolor in my head.
I forget which movie version I've seen but they took Fedalla's death and gave it to Ahab. The way Ahab dies in the book would look so much better on screen.
And if you cut out all the stuff about whales and whaling you could easily bring it in at 90 minutes.
megan walker - Aug 05, 2010 8:25:40 pm PDT #11836 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Congrats, Laga!
I finally finished Don Quixote the night before my book salon and I'm so relieved. The Second Part was much better than the First Part so I'm left with a positive feeling overall, but I'd definitely recommended reading the First Part until you get sick of it and feeling free to jump ahead to the last chapter and then moving on to the Second Part.
ETA: Now on to eponymous heroines!