Thursday, May 19, 2022
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
STAR GUIDES ~
Star Clusters / Hubble
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For all searching guides for the world above (the stars)
we'd like to recommend two books for your library
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Monday, May 16, 2022
EUGENIO MONTALE ~
Times at Bellosguardo
Oh now there in the glittering
stretch that bends toward the hills
the hum of evening lessens
and the trees chat with the hackneyed
murmur of the sand; and how this common life
no longer owned by our breath
gets channeled there, crystalline,
into orders of columns
and willows at the edges
and great moats in the gardens
by the overbrimming pools,
and how a sapphire light returns
for the men who live down there: it is too sad
such peace should enlighten in glimmers
and everything then roll on, with intermittent
flashes over the steaming riverbends,
with intersecting chimneys
and shouts from the hanging gardens
and consternation and long laughter
over patched roofs, among the arrases
of massed branches and a brilliant tail
that trails across the sky before
desire can find the words!
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Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Poems
translated by Jonathan Galassi
Everyman 2012
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Friday, May 13, 2022
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Monday, May 9, 2022
Sunday, May 8, 2022
ELIZA GRISWOLD ~
Water Table
My earliest wish was not to exist —
to burst in the backyard
behind the rectory
where no one would see me.
This wasn't a plea to be found
or mourned for, but to be unborn
into the atmosphere. To hang
in the humid air, as ponds vent upward
from the overheated earth,
rise until they freeze
and crystallize, then drop
into the aquifer.
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Eliza Griswold
If Men, Then
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2020
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Friday, May 6, 2022
BANSKY ~
MIT Press
2021
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A work by English graffiti artist Banksy is seen on a wall in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007