{"id":15654,"date":"2017-03-24T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=15654"},"modified":"2017-03-24T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T05:43:56","slug":"last-nights-poetry-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15654","title":{"rendered":"Last night’s poetry discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a great time at the East Greenbush library last night discussing poems by Emily Dickenson and a little bit of Wallace Stevens. What a joy to have a real conversation and study of some superbly crafted poems. This is a view of the papers I came home with. I really need to get a collected works of Stevens. Next week: Robert Frost.<\/p>\n

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And PS: I’m listening to American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I’d started to read it before but it just didn’t click with me. This time I took a chance on the 10th anniversary audio version with multiple actors (including the author) and it’s great. Could be helped by the recent reading\/listening to Norse Mythology so I’m more up to snuff on what’s going on. Just saying. Also, it’s chock full of great quotables like this:<\/p>\n

If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.<\/p>\n

I got to tell you, you don\u2019t look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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