Poetry
(One lucky person will be chosen at random to win a comic novel about Christmas. See below. Must act before Tuesday, January 10, 3:00 a.m.) Music Monday by Kerry Dexter Destination: Scotland Music: Acquaintance, by Jim Malcolm (Beltane Records) There’s a statue of him in Canberra and a town named after him in Oregon, his [...]
Books for Troubled Times in the Middle East Destination: Iran Book: Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran (NEW May 2011) by Roger Housden Roger Housden‘s Saved by Beauty combines an enticing travel guidebook with a philosophical memoir as he travels in Iran, seeking the beautiful culture he first fell in love [...]
Books for Troubled Times in the Arab World Destination: Iran (Persia, 12th Century) Book: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald (1917) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*, a rather slim book with its ivory slip cover and front embossed with green, red and gold twining roses held an honored position in my parent’s living [...]
Destination: New England Books and Play: The Belle of Amherst by William Luce; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson; and a Recipe
Destination: Tahiti Poetry: To an Island Princess by Robert Louis Stevenson May is Poetry Month, so I went in search of some travel poetry. I always read one of my childhood favorites, Robert Louis Stevenson’ In the Land of the Counterpane, when I was sick. His picture of a sick child playing on the bedcovers, [...]
