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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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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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
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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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by Richard Subber | Apr 18, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Joys of reading, Reflections
soul talking…
Book review:
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902
Recently I re-read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It’s short, quite readable, and sombre, of course.
You may think you know the story because you saw Apocalypse Now. The book is more exploratory. It has more of humanity in it.
The protagonist Marlowe (picture Mickey Rourke in a Panama hat) dives pretty deep into the abyss of human nature…
Give the book a shot if you’re not looking for light reading.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: Forced Founders
by Woody Holton
The so-called “Founding Fathers”
weren’t the only ones
who helped to shape our independence…
My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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