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Detours
So there you are in the middle of nowhere, windows rolled down and the radio starting to drain on the battery. And the wind, cold wind, hot–fast air, really, you can’t tell the temperature, but there you are, in the middle of nowhere. —To read more, check out the chapbook, available from Burnside Review…
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Translation Detours (more signposts)
Treman State Park Earlier this month, I was in Ithaca to give a translation talk in the Latin American Studies Program seminar series and a reading from Detours at the Cornell Store. Naturally, I visited the waterfalls and photographed a few detour signs. Then up to Rochester for the ALTA conference and even more translation…
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Reading at Cornell Store October 1
Please join me at the Cornell Store on Monday, October 1, 4:00-5:00 pm. I’ll be reading from Detours. Copies of the chapbook will be available. I’m looking forward to being back in Ithaca–it’s been a long time! Many thanks to the Cornell Latin American Studies Program and to the Cornell Store for sponsoring the event.
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New, used, ineffable
I’m enough of a curmudgeon that I still grouse now and then about those qualified-yet-unqualified “quality products”– do they mean high quality? Fair-to-middling? Nothing to write home about? And I do enjoy a good sign. So imagine my delight, strolling with my family on Sunday afternoon, toward the end of a day of beach walking…
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The Observer in the Frame
We spent the last days of August backpacking in the Three Sisters Wilderness, one of my favorite places on earth. Camped on a mini-ridge above Camp Lake, we watched the moon rise–fast!–and then the sunset and then, just barely (hurling myself out of the tent toward the pink glow, tangled in tent flaps and sleeping…
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Some Detours Thanks
Detours has been out for about a month now, and I want to say thank you! to a few people: To Karen McPherson (Sketching Elise), for poem-caching me in her Poetry Box– and how cool is a poetry box, right? Are there poetry boxes in your town? Check out the scheme here: http://www.utteredchaos.org/. To Ruth Horowitz (Giving Up…
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Revision Detours
The beginning Directions were meant to be changed. One definition of a detour, from the OED on line: A turning or deviation from the direct road; a roundabout or circuitous way, course, or proceeding. That’s certainly the kind of trip described in Detours. “Detour” can also describe the revision process. Revision often means reaching…
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Detours (and Signs)
Some signs are more directive than others Ordinarily, I grumble as much as the next person at the prospect of road work and its concomitant delays. But not lately: in preparation for the release of my chapbook, Detours, by Burnside Review Press, I’ve been collecting detour signs. Pictures of signs–I haven’t stolen any yet. I…
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Detour ahead!
Detours will be out this month from Burnside Review in Portland. I’ll be blogging about Detours–and detours in general–at ¿Se enseña aquí? Do stop by!