ted kooser -- delights and shadows
galway kinnell -- new selected poems
jane kenyon -- otherwise
charles simic -- walking the black cat

that and, you know, the usual -- hustler, oui, club....

Double ganging up on me, eh?!
 

Not that it's any of your business you two, but they're picture books if you need to know. BIG picture books. And sometimes I use my crayons on them too. So there!

Hey Robert:
if you like poetry, as you obviously do, please consider the following:

http://www.amazon.com/Re-entry-Poems...8246275&sr=1-1

best,
mw

Bill Walsh - Finding the Winning Edge. Although he was one of the greatest football coaches ever, its not just about football. Great info on developing an organization and dealing with highly competitive adversaries.

The only downside is since his passing, copies of the book have gone through the roof. My copy is just a poor library version, sigh....

"over 50" in the men's room at work, a bottle of head and shoulders shampoo in my bathroom at home, a bicisport from january 2001 in the garage, the 1986 edition of the great soviet encyclopedia letter "s" in my living room, the latest new yorker in my bed room and "transforming the heurmeneutic context" when i'm in the computer/dining room thing.

jerk

except for the usual you've really got some fruckign bad taste.

jerk

An abstract algebra textbook, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens, High-Performance Cycling by Asker E. Jeukendrup, and the USCF Level 3 Coaching Handbook.

Even so, pr0n's better on teh Intarwebs.

blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
Lessons Learned on Bishop Street - Wesley T. Park
2007 Independent Fabrication Product Catalog

The first three are thought provoking, the fourth is a love story

i'm on the fence about kooser

the rest i'll take over the cats who do more with language head-games than emotional insight. we've been through the whole emotion is a construct argument before, and I'm on the foolishly old school side.

i dig my APR each month, but a bunch of them are just very talented headfruckers imho, yo.

alan dugan is like, you know, the ferreti of american poetry. bad *** old man.

As usual, I've got three or four things going at once that have nothing at all to do with each other:

Just finished The Zen of Fish - all about sushi, and sushi restaurants - a really good read.

Currently:

The Regan Diaries
Queen Isabella - about Isabella and Edward II in 14th century England - wild times...no really, she's raising an army in France to depose the king
The Black Swan

Cheers!

R

Varied
 

Value Sweep (interesting book on real options and valuation), the Penguin's lives bios of Joseph Smith and Dante (yes simultaneously!) and just finished A Thousand Splendid Sons.

yeah, Poems Seven was a truly memorable event. So much of the other stuff just washes thru my head. Old school for me too.

Readers who have cited McCarthy might also want to look at the novels of Jim Harrison. His latest, Returning to Earth: A Novel, is now out in paper. Although I haven't read it yet I've liked everthing else by him I have read.

Recently my reading has included:

Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Complete Poetry (Cesar Vallejo)
The Word That Causes Death's Defeat (Anna Akhmatova)

Started reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert. Currently on book three: Children of Dune.