Would you rather be a tree?
Sounds good right now. Though I'm not looking to take root just yet.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
billytea - Jul 05, 2004 7:43:06 pm PDT #4645 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
brenda m - Jul 06, 2004 3:10:45 am PDT #4646 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Judy Grahn is one of my favorite modern poets, and the one who first made me realize that poetry could leave me gasping and breathless.
I'm not a girl
I'm a hatchet
I'm not a hole
I'm a whole mountain
I'm not a fool
I'm a survivor
I'm not a pearl
I'm the Atlantic Ocean
I'm not a good lay
I'm a straight razor
look at me as if you had never seen a woman before
I have red, red hands and much bitterness
Also, Jesse is me on lit fic definitions and on high school slacker ethic.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2004 4:56:18 am PDT #4647 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
FWIW, there sometimes just isn't a connection between the amount of time a student spent on a paper and how good it is.
Sure. And I know I'm smart, but what I was really good at is figuring out what the teachers wanted to see, and then doing that.
Lilty Cash - Jul 06, 2004 5:05:31 am PDT #4648 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Man, it makes me sad to miss so much brain spiciness in Literary because I'm out of the office for the weekend. There is far too much for me to catch up on, but I'll throw in a few cents as far as contemporary lit I think is/could someday be canon:
I'd agree with Morrison already being there. I'm all giddy to read Beloved after your raves, because until now, all I've read of hers is Paradise.
Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson and Into the Forest by Jean Heglund. I don't know that I'd go as far to say that they could be "great books", but I've seen both of them taught in college. (I used to work in the bookstore, so I got to see what everyone was ordering. I was most excited to see these two included.) Mostly, I just want to see if anyone else has read 'em.
Kate P. - Jul 06, 2004 5:13:02 am PDT #4649 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Lilty, I love Written on the Body. Have you read any of her other books? The Passion is my favorite (ah, Venice!), with Art and Lies and WOTB tied for second place. Her short stories are excellent too. Sadly, I really disliked her latest book.
Lilty Cash - Jul 06, 2004 5:15:48 am PDT #4650 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I've tried a few more of hers, and I probably need to read them more closely, but nothing has pulled me in quite the same way as Written on the Body.
Was her latest The Powerbook ? Because I remember a vague dislike for that one.
Hayden - Jul 06, 2004 5:19:03 am PDT #4651 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
hayden, if you weren't already married, I'd be down on one knee proposing right now.
Edit: and not just because I'd own half of that framed poem that way.
Aw yeah! I loved that other Doty poem, too. First time I'd read it.
Kate P. - Jul 06, 2004 5:22:06 am PDT #4652 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, it was The Powerbook that I really didn't like. Give The Passion a try, if you haven't already. I remember being just blown away by it.
Lilty Cash - Jul 06, 2004 5:23:00 am PDT #4653 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Consider it added to my reading list!
Jim - Jul 06, 2004 5:34:47 am PDT #4654 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Winterson's debut, Oranges are not the only fruit is wonderful too.