tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262715447727752601.post1969991356725833746..comments2023-10-12T06:29:41.713-07:00Comments on Stranger in a Strange Land: When did books become a burden?Terez Peipinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09206744913617227761noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262715447727752601.post-60482106945788525352013-02-23T18:06:34.098-08:002013-02-23T18:06:34.098-08:00Books at every hand.
Toilet, bed stand, kitchen co...Books at every hand.<br />Toilet, bed stand, kitchen counter, hassock.<br />Only great and or interestingly weird<br /> literature.<br />The bible - two or three versions, the I ching, poetry<br />Plus essays and novels. Read.<br /><br />Fragments or wholes as each moment allows.<br />Consider my obsessions and delights.<br /><br />Write.<br /><br />Books that have moved from shelf to bedside, kitchen counter and bathroom radiator in the previous 72 hours.<br /><br />Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns<br />Hungarian and German cookbooks, one of each.<br />Journals of nurse practitioners, with articles of particular interest.;<br /> Asthma, compliance, dysuria, bronchitis.<br />Japanese love poems<br />Four Japanese cookbooks,<br />Essays that I would read only because my friend’s son published them.<br />Eileen Myles, poetry,<br />Two Bibles<br />Two books titled Tea<br />One I ching<br />Poets and Writers with Billy Collins on the cover.<br />Mary Oliver’s latest<br />Aldo Buzzi.<br />Two months later:<br />Books on Bedside stand.<br />MF Fisher, Sister Age<br />The Kite Runner (unstarted)<br />February 9th New Yorker<br />and<br />Joanne Kyer, Strange Big Moon.<br /><br />I hear you Terez! <br />Love Trudytrudy's brunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17672886401373736021noreply@blogger.com