by Richard Subber | Apr 30, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, History, World history
up close to war, and personal
Book review:
The Book of War:
25 Centuries of Great War Writing
John Keegan, ed. (1934-2012)
New York: Penguin Books, 1999
492 pages, with list of sources and index
The Book of War is an endlessly compelling collection of mostly personal accounts of the horrible experiences of war and combat and the death of comrades.
Keegan has collected the often obscure writings of many recognizable writers, such as Davy Crockett, Victor Hugo, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Winston Churchill, and Studs Terkel. The reader also finds numerous contributions by authentic ordinary people who happened to get in the way of war that surrounded them.
There’s nothing pleasant about the book.
Every page is a revelation of the hurt and the loss and the heroics and the degradation of human warfare.
Read The Book of War before you decide to study war no more.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
…too much death (book review)
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.)
and Joseph L. Galloway
In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 28, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
getting closer…
“Years ago, a black southerner told me that in the South,
whites do not care how close blacks get
as long as they do not get too high,
but in the North, she said,
whites do not care how high blacks get
as long as they do not get too close.”
from:
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family
by Bettye Kearse
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
p. 72
Think about it—how much of this statement do you think is wrong?
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: Ethan Frome
not being satisfied with less…
by Edith Wharton
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 25, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
there is more…
Wall
The wall stands high,
it has nowhere to go,
it heeds no future,
and it will not speak the past,
its dirty stones are mute,
they’re strong,
but they merely make the wall,
each alone is naught,
the wall entire is a simple part
of a simple world
that blocks my path,
and flaunts the other ways
that make a turn to left or right,
each an adventure,
more imagining,
a few steps
to futures in the beyond.
January 1, 2024
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The wisdom of Dr. Seuss
“…don’t cry because it’s over…”
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Apr 23, 2024 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews
you see it coming…
Movie review:
Body Heat
Some like it hot. If that’s you, you’ll like Body Heat (1981, rated R, 113 minutes).
Ned Racine (William Hurt in one of his most intense performances) is a caricature of a small town lawyer who doesn’t mind dealing with small town crooks. He also likes the ladies, and he gets snared by a big-thinking criminal lady that he can’t handle.
Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner is an archetype of ambitious, erotic, and nasty) wants to kill her rich husband. She picks Ned to help her do it.
Ned doesn’t figure it all out until he’s in a prison cell.
Matty takes the money and runs.
Body Heat has a lot of sweating, a lot of smoking, some humor (thank you, Ted Danson), and quite a bit of richly filmed hot love and fully expressed humanity in full view.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 20, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
she fills my horizons
in moto perpetuo
Surrounded.
By a baby.
She is in motion,
she is energy, all energies.
Does she move fast enough to fill all the space?
It seems true…
I follow her, she scampers on and around,
she fills my horizons,
I am surrounded.
I surrender, she has taken me alive.
Life is good.
May 26, 2012
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Book review: To Serve Them All My Days
by R. F. Delderfield
A beloved teacher,
you know this story…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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