September 24, 2017 at 3:15 pm (Artists and Writers, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: humor, J Journal, Literary Magazines, poetry
First Time for Everything
by Marjorie Power
Lights flash
in my rear view
mirror. I pull over
thinking I must be in the way
But no.
I’ve done
a lot of things
a little bit wrong, so
I don’t argue. Besides, the cop
is cute.
Guilty
or no contest?
I check guilty, start my
written statement. I’ve always loved
to write.
Marjorie Power has had poems in Poet Lore, The Atlanta Review, Fault Lines, Living In Storms, and the Random House Treasure of Light Verse. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
September 24, 2017 at 6:16 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Recommended)
Tags: inspiration, reading lists, translation, writing process
You’ll notice from the above post heading that self has moved on from The Elephant Vanishes. She’s currently reading Submission, a Michel Houellebecq novel, translated from the French by Lorin Stein.
She’s read two books by Houellebecq, but that was years ago: Platform and The Elementary Particles. Submission features a more restrained Houellebecq (Platform on the other hand was — WOW!)
The protagonist of Submission is a middle-aged academic who knows a lot of things:
Self loves long sentences when done well.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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