Simply messing around in books: Rolin and Kawakami

 

Dream large

Arnon Grunberg: Tirza

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

Elizabeth Klett reads Crane Mansions

Photo of Elizabeth by Claire McAdams Photography

Pigeons on the grass, alas

Joanna Kavenna: Come To The Edge

The three fortunes

The three fortunes of the cat: the housewife’s forgetfulness, walking without a sound and keen sight in darkness.

 

The three fortunes of the lucky man: fences, vigilance and early rising.

 

Three fortunes of the unlucky man: long visits to his neighbours, long morning sleep and bad fences.

 

From Irish Proverbs and Sayings collected by Seamus Cashman and Sean Gaffney, The O’Brien Press, Dublin

 

Nicanor Parra, poetic gatecrasher

 

In poetry everything is permitted

with only this condition, of course:

you have to improve on the blank page.

Books for people who have no time to read

 

Writers love to lampoon publishers, and vice versa.  Here’s a nice parody Gert came across recently: