The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I've enjoyed William Carlos Williams, Dickinson, and Louise Gluck recently. Looking for collections that fit the vibe of fall, I'll take any recommendations.

Have you checked out any of Dave Berman’s poetry?

https://textz.com/textz/Actual%20Air.pdf

 

[kvetcha]

I've enjoyed William Carlos Williams, Dickinson, and Louise Gluck recently. Looking for collections that fit the vibe of fall, I'll take any recommendations.

try Janet Frame!

Scarlet Tanager, Saratoga Springs - Poetry Archive

When you returned from that wonderful summer in the south to find pond and lake icily indifferent to your thirst, mounds of snow waiting to complete your burial, every shiftless wood unprepared to provide a green meal, you had...

poetryarchive.org

And then watch An Angel at My Table!

 

[ayayrawn]

try Janet Frame!

Scarlet Tanager, Saratoga Springs - Poetry Archive

When you returned from that wonderful summer in the south to find pond and lake icily indifferent to your thirst, mounds of snow waiting to complete your burial, every shiftless wood unprepared to provide a green meal, you had...

poetryarchive.org

And then watch An Angel at My Table!

Had this in my watchlist foreverz good call.

Have you checked out any of Dave Berman’s poetry?

https://textz.com/textz/Actual%20Air.pdf

Looove this one. The charm of 5:30 may be my favorite poem ever. Should be due for a revisit soon

 

[avecigrec]

I've enjoyed William Carlos Williams, Dickinson, and Louise Gluck recently. Looking for collections that fit the vibe of fall, I'll take any recommendations.

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Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery by Jack McCarthy
I might not tell everybody this by Alden Nowlan
At First, Lonely by Tanya Davis
Re-Origin of Species by Alessandra Naccarato
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin by Thomas King
Haiti Glass by Lanelle Moise
Burning In This Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe
Post Glacial: The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch edited by David Eso
Where the Words End and My Body Begins by Amber Dawn

 

[kvetcha]

Had this in my watchlist foreverz good call.


Looove this one. The charm of 5:30 may be my favorite poem ever. Should be due for a revisit soon

tis on my Plex. I forget if you've got a share there.

 

[ayayrawn]

Just finished Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, the first of his I've read in a long time. Since I went through almost of his work back in college, but never this one. Maybe his best. Amazing.

 

[kvetcha]

about a third into Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, enjoying it very much. The pleasure of elegant prose!

 

[Kris]

about a third into Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, enjoying it very much. The pleasure of elegant prose!

I loved this book. I watched "After Yang" this week and it sort of had the same vibe. I recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.

 

[kvetcha]

I loved this book. I watched "After Yang" this week and it sort of had the same vibe. I recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.

After Yang has been on my list! I should catch it before it's gone from Criterion.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Started this behemoth on Labour Day. It's the last of his I have yet to read. Just finished the second part, "Iceland Spar", and am having a blast. All his books are political but so far this is the most overtly or clearly so; includes so much of what makes him great at an expanded scale. Definitely his most accessible prose.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Started this behemoth on Labour Day. It's the last of his I have yet to read. Just finished the second part, "Iceland Spar", and am having a blast. All his books are political but so far this is the most overtly or clearly so; includes so much of what makes him great at an expanded scale. Definitely his most accessible prose.

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Thanks for reminding me, I need to read Inherent Vice

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Thanks for reminding me, I need to read Inherent Vice

Great book! Have you seen the film or no?

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Great book! Have you seen the film or no?

I did see the movie but don’t remember too much about it, for some reason

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I did see the movie but don’t remember too much about it, for some reason

The book and movie are both great. The movie, directed by PT Anderson, almost feels like a prequel to The Big Lebowski in a lot of ways.

 

[kvetcha]

I’ve never read any Pynchon. What would I be getting myself into?

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

I’ve never read any Pynchon. What would I be getting myself into?

Bizarre and absorbing mixtures of high and low culture, lots of science, math and history informing metaphor and form, postmodern labyrinthian plotting, anarchist politics, punny names, mysticism, more than occasional vulgarity, and lots—lots—of silly songs.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I’ve never read any Pynchon. What would I be getting myself into?

The only two I’ve read are Gravity’s Rainbow and Inherent Vice both are great.

 

[avecigrec]

Bizarre and absorbing mixtures of high and low culture, lots of science, math and history informing metaphor and form, postmodern labyrinthian plotting, anarchist politics, punny names, mysticism, more than occasional vulgarity, and lots—lots—of silly songs.

Now I wonder why I haven't read any. This sounds marvelous!

 

[ayayrawn]

I’ve never read any Pynchon. What would I be getting myself into?

Gravity's Rainbow is a fucking trip, but it rules

 

[Nee Lewman]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was kind of a delight! Sorrowland was not my cup of tea. Just popped the cover on Stephen King's Fairy Tale. These are today's deep thoughts.

Well what did you think of Fairy Tale. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is in my too read pile.