Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Table of Contents
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- The Way I Write
In the mornings I lie partly propped up
the way Thomas Jefferson did when he slept
at Monticello. Then I stop and
look away like Emily Dickinson when
she was thinking about the carriage and the fly.
When someone disturbs me I come back
like Pascal from those infinite spaces,
but I don't have his great reassurances
of math following along with me; so somehow
the world around me is even scarier.
Besides, the world on fire of Saint Teresa
surrounds me, and the wild faces Dante
awakened on his descent through those dark
forbidden caverns. But over my roof bends
my own kind sky and the mouse-nibble sound of now.
The sky has waited a long time
for this day. Trees have reached out,
the river has scrambled to get where it is.
And here I bring my little mind
to the edge of the ocean and let it think.
My head lolls to one side as thoughts
pour onto the page, important
additions but immediately obsolete, like waves.
The ocean and I have many pebbles
to find and wash off and roll into shape.
"What happens to all these rocks?" "They
become sand." "And then?" My hand stops.
Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson,
Pascal, Dante—they all pause too.
The sky waits. I lean forward and write.
"Living on the Edge" by Kwisatch
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by John Carleton
This sonnet is 1 of nearly 700 that constitute The Golden Gate, a remarkable novel by Vikram Seth. His mastery of narrative and poetics produces an incredible tour de force that demonstrates the flexibility of the sonnet form in propelling the story forward. Seth uses a profusion of stratagems that rarely call attention to themselves. You tend to forget you're reading 14-line units of rhymed poetry, so deftly does Seth let them move the story, deepen its themes, and develop its characters. But if you ever wanted to try your hand at a sonnet or even if you already have, this novel serves as a highly useful guide to the approaches you can take and how to make them work.
How beautiful it is, when waking,
To find one's lover at one's side;
The delicate slow light is breaking
Irresolutely through the wide
Bay windows of their bedroom, falling
On Liz's hair, and John's recalling
How last night she untied it, how
It flowed between his hands; but now
She lies asleep, unswiftly breathing;
Her thoughts are not with him, her dreams
Traverse the solitary streams
Of inward lands, yet her hair, wreathing
The pillow in a mesh of light,
Returns to him the fugitive night.
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Great Stories, People, Books &Events in Literary History
Rated • 11 reviews • literature • todayinliterature.com
From the page: "Gulag Payback
On this day in 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize. In his memoirs, Solzhenitsyn describes his failed attempt to use his Nobel as a knock-out blow to Soviet repression. "During my time in the camps," he writes, "I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.""
That in itself was worth a visit to the site. Timeless as wisdom always is; could have been written today.
The site requires that you subscribe to get at the stories; but the concise bios and bibliographies are useful introductions to a plenitude of authors.
