Category: Reading Through the Stacks
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted on That Artsy Reader Girl. Be sure to check out her blog for other takes on this week’s topic! If fall is the season for all things cozy, for me winter is a time of reflection and stillness. This is the time of year I most enjoy reading in depth…
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It took me a solid month (off and on) to finish this book. Normally I can read a book of poetry in a day because they’re usually only about a hundred pages, but this epic novel in verse weighs in at 385 pages. And I know you’re thinking, but Allie, if you can finish one…
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Let’s read through Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Taking a break from the 20th century, we’re going to chat about a poetry collection from a famous author, who’s asking a very interesting question within her poems: How many words does it take to tell a story? Margaret Atwood (1939-) is a prolific writer in nearly…
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Join me on a tour through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Today we’re talking about a semi-modern master, Elizabeth Bishop. Since The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 is, well, complete, I didn’t pick up any other collections of her work. And I’ll be doing that throughout this challenge–reading the most complete book where possible. Elizabeth Bishop…
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Join me as I read through the Oakland Public Library poetry collection. So this week has not quite gone to plan, and this book is going to be a few days overdue. Whoops. But I’m glad that I finished it and didn’t just turn it back in because I so thoroughly enjoyed Troy Jollimore‘s collection,…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Findings by Wendell Berry, published in 1969. Wendell Berry (1934-) is a novelist, essayist, poet, environmental activist, and farmer. His work is grounded in place, and the landscape of Kentucky, where he was born and has spent a large portion of his life, is very important to…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Today we’re discussing a new book: These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit by Hayan Charara. Hayan Charara (1972–) grew up in Detroit, and some of his poetry deals with the decay of this particular urban landscape, his Lebanese cultural roots come through mostly in meditations…
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I’m not going to lie–it took me a while to get through this collection: Selected Poems by Kenneth Patchen. And while the book wasn’t terrible, I’m really glad that it wasn’t the complete poems because I don’t know how much more of his work I really wanted to read. Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) wrote over 40…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Let’s journey back to 1968 today with George Huitt Atwood’s Thunder in the Room. Normally I start off these posts with a short introduction on the poet, but the only biographical information I could find on Atwood was on the inside jacket. He was born in 1919,…
Allison Burris 