So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Thank you, Mark Doty, for baring your soul and expanding the world for us! Your particular view of life's glories and declines,while very different, resonates with the reader's . At the same time that is is accessible, this is rich stuff - I read them one per day so that the intensity could sink in and make its presence felt in how I appreciate the world.
Join British confidential agent Auberon Harwell as he shares the politics, courage and relationships of a remote area in the Pre-World War I principality of Montenegro. With his characterizations, intense yet leisurely-moving plot and use of language Starling Lawrence re-creates this setting so completely that turning the last page makes the reader feel as if she is emerging from the book itself.
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What a risk a poet takes when he lets us into his heart and soul. And aren't we fortunate! Each facet of the jewels created by Rick Hilles in Brother Salvage shine with the intense detail that reminds us what it means to be a person. These poems will stay with me for a long time.
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Amy Stromberg has commented on (3) products.
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems by Mark Doty
Amy Stromberg, July 26, 2011
Thank you, Mark Doty, for baring your soul and expanding the world for us! Your particular view of life's glories and declines,while very different, resonates with the reader's . At the same time that is is accessible, this is rich stuff - I read them one per day so that the intensity could sink in and make its presence felt in how I appreciate the world.Montenegro (P.S.) by Starling Lawrence
Amy Stromberg, September 13, 2007
Join British confidential agent Auberon Harwell as he shares the politics, courage and relationships of a remote area in the Pre-World War I principality of Montenegro. With his characterizations, intense yet leisurely-moving plot and use of language Starling Lawrence re-creates this setting so completely that turning the last page makes the reader feel as if she is emerging from the book itself.(10 of 25 readers found this comment helpful)
Brother Salvage (Pitt Poetry) by Rick Hilles
Amy Stromberg, January 16, 2007
What a risk a poet takes when he lets us into his heart and soul. And aren't we fortunate! Each facet of the jewels created by Rick Hilles in Brother Salvage shine with the intense detail that reminds us what it means to be a person. These poems will stay with me for a long time.(9 of 11 readers found this comment helpful)