by Richard Subber | Feb 19, 2023 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry
giving is all…
Santa’s helpers
Bows and ribbons all around,
we’re on the floor
wrapping in the dark hours,
and we unwrap our hearts
and share great gifts,
again and again.
December 25, 2022
Delightfully inspired by “Every Christmas Eve” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, December 25, 2022, on her website, www.ahundredfallingveils.com
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Think about loneliness beyond understanding…
by Herman Melville
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Feb 8, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Politics
the Battle of the Greasy Grass…
Book review:
Lakota America:
A New History of Indigenous Power
by Pekka Hämäläinen
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019
530 pages
It’s just fabulously interesting to learn more and more about the lives, the cultures, and the civilizations of the American Indians who were in quite a number of catbird seats in the continental United States until well into the 19th century.
Don’t forget that the Battle of the Little Bighorn—“Custer’s Last Stand”—known to Indian survivors as the Battle of the Greasy Grass—played out on June 25, 1876, more than a decade after the Civil War, in the same year that Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone.
The Lakota, one of three major groups of the Sioux Indians, were dominant in the high plains west of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. They became a culture on horseback, and they depended on the buffalo.
In Lakota America you’ll learn that the Lakota were not tyrants, and they were not masters of every moment and every cluster of people in their domain, but mostly they called the shots for a long time.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Comanche Empire
the other story of the American West…
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Feb 5, 2023 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Power and inequality
it’s not about rational choices…
Book review:
What’s Wrong with Economics?
A Primer for the Perplexed
by Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky (b1939)
New Haven, CT: Yales University Press, 2020
223 pages
Skidelsky has written a powerfully convergent book about the origins and enduring nature of economics and the lamentably over-hyped concept of Homo economicus.
“Economic Man”—the human calculating machine that continuously, exclusively acts in the most rational way to achieve maximum value at minimum cost—exists only in the imaginations of economists who invented him to fit their equally fictitious models of human behavior and modern economic activity.
In a nutshell: “…the neoclassical model of rational behaviour based on fixed preferences, complete contracts, and ample relevant information is the wrong one.” (p. 90)
What’s Wrong with Economics? will help you understand what’s wrong with our current so-called capitalist system and the people, companies, and governments that it mostly benefits.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
The Reader (Der Vorleser)
Not just a rehash of WWII…
by Bernhard Schlink
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | Jan 25, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
scant promise of high noon
“…partly sunny…”
The wayward sun can do no more
than linger at the entrance to the day.
There is no rush to dawn,
no vaulting ray to chase
the shadows of the night…
…and later, in the guise of day,
the pallid star is cloud-cloaked, cool,
it drifts to mid-sky,
gives only scant promise of high noon.
June 27, 2018
My poem “…partly sunny…” was published in my fifth collection of 53 poems, My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited (search for “Richard Carl Subber”).
(image courtesy of my trusted advisor)
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
“…fragmentary blue…”
a hue for you, thanks, Bob
Robert Frost, old reliable
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Jan 23, 2023 | Book reviews, Books, History, World history
a wonkish analysis of combat…
Book review:
Military Power:
Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
by Stephen Biddle
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004
337 pages
Military Power is a fastidiously wonkish analysis of combat and military power.
Biddle makes his case for considering that “force employment,” i.e., combat doctrine and tactics, is at least as important in understanding the outcomes of battle as the count of who has the most guns and the biggest armies.
Earlier authors might have called it “leadership.”
Biddle offers remarkably detailed blow-by-blow commentary about the second battle of the Somme River in 1918, the Allies’ Normandy breakout in 1944, and Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
It’s not an easy read. Military Power will reward the reader who wants to know more.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 20232 All rights reserved.
Book review:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
from the agile mind
of Arthur Conan Doyle
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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