Category: writing writers
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Reading Jane Kenyon
A cloudy, warmish day, quite a change from recent weeks. Maybe some showers later. Perhaps a walk this afternoon. I’ve been reading Jane Kenyon’s Collected Poems. She lived the last couple of decades of her leukemia shortened life in a New Hampshire valley. Her house, the weather, farming, the natural world, pets, and her relationship…
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Rainy Day Reading
This morning the overnight snow as changed to freezing rain and now a wintry mix. The forecast is for heavy rain later. I’ve just finished Donald Hall’s A Carnival of Losses. The book is a blend of memoir and ruminations about the everyday world of one rapidly approaching ninety. It is an immensely pleasing read,…
