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Still Noticing, Collecting (Detour 13)
We spent the third weekend in January at the coast, an extended family tradition–long walks, seafood, puzzles, wine. Walks remembered and compared; stones retrieved from tide pools, examined, mulled, returned– dropped gently, perhaps, or absentmindedly; or flung full-armed into the further surf, that pitcher’s arc none of us ever truly mastered. Remembered others’ beach traditions…
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Wine and Word Tasting, 3rd. edition
The third edition of Wine and Word Tasting at Winter’s Hill Vineyard will take place on Saturday, February 16, 11:00-5:00. I’ll be reading from Detours and from my translation of Angélica Gorodischer’s Trafalgar, which should be hot off the Small Beer Press. We have a great line-up of readers and writers this year, with something for…
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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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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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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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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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Drawing a Face on the Balloon
My son brought a balloon home from school with him this week, bright yellow. He played punching bag with it, he made obnoxious noises with it, he bounced it against the ceiling and retrieved it again. The first night, he drew a face on it. Last night, he added hair. My bedtime reading last night…