April was that kind of month that just flew by without warning. When Just’ Cause is over I will get back to writing in the real sense… for now here is the literary month of April.
For books it was:
- Affliction by Russell Banks ~ can’t wait to see the movie
- Belshazzar’s Daughter by Barbara Nadel ~ speaking of movies, this should be one
- Truth & Bright Water by Thomas King ~ probably my second favorite read of the month
- South Wind Through the Kitchen by Elizabeth David ~ a collection of “best of” Elizabeth David
- Without End by Adam Zagajewski ~ a collection of poetry
- Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian ~ my favorite read of the month
For poetry it was:
- “Luncheon on the Grass” by Carl Phillips (In the Blood, 1993.)
- “Rebus” by Jane Hirschfield (Given Sugar, Given Salt, 2002.)
- “Hospital” by Karl Shapiro (Poems: 1040-1953, 1953.)
- “A Secret Life” by Stephen Dunn (Landscape at the End of the Century, 1999.)
- “The Welcoming” by Edward Hirsch (Earthly Measures, 1994.)
- “Prophet” by Carl Dennis (Practical Gods, 2001.)
- “Funeral II” by — (New & Collected Poems, 2000.)
- “Days of Pie and Coffee” by — (Shroud of the Gnome, 1997.)
- “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Adam Zagajewski (Without End, 2002)
- “Kaddish” by Allen Ginsberg (Kaddish and Other Poems 1958 – 1960, 2001)
- “Wisdom of the Desert Fathers” by Katha Pollitt (the mind- body problem, 2009)
- “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins (Sailing Alone Around the Room, 2002)
For poetry set to music it was Natalie Merchant’s long awaited Leave Your Sleep. This is the track listing for the fantastically amazing album:
Part I
- Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience by Charles Causley
- Equestrienne by Rachel Field
- Calico Pie by Edward Lear
- Bleezer’s Ice-Cream by Jack Prelutsky
- It Makes a Change by Mervyn Peak
- The King of China’s Daughter by Anonymous
- The Dancing Bear by Albert Bigelow Paine
- The Man in the Wilderness by Mother Goose
- maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings
- If No One Ever Marries Me by Laurence Alma-Tadema
- The Sleepy Giant by Charles Edward Carryl
- The Peppery Man by Arthur Macy
- The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe
Part II
- Adventures of Isabel by Ogden Nash
- The Walloping Window Blind by Charles Edward Carryl
- Topsyturvey World by William Brighty Rands
- The Janitor’s Boy by Nathalia Crane
- Griselda by Eleanor Farjeon
- The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Vain and Careless by Robert Graves
- Crying, My Little One by Christina Rossetti
- Sweet and a Lullaby by Anonymous
- I Saw a Ship A-Sailing by Anonymous
- Autumn Lullaby by Anonymous
- Spring and Fall: to a young child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Indian Names by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
For LibraryThing’s Early Review program it was: a browse through a weight training book. Full review coming next month…
For fun it was: The Book of Calamities by Peter Trachtenberg
~*LunaSea*~ 