by Richard Subber | Jan 25, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Poetry
…less than meets the eye…
Book review:
The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam
Edward Fitzgerald, trans.
Manoocher Aryanpur, intro.
Joseph Isom, illus.
Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc. 1967
59 pages
Overall, Omar Khayyam’s classic doesn’t appeal to my modern ear. It’s too long, and disorganized.
Having said that, I’m happy to acknowledge that a reader can find poetic beauty and exotic imagery seeded throughout the poem, e.g. “…There was the Door to which I found no Key/There was the Veil through which I could not see:/Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee/There was—and then no more of Thee and Me.” (Stanza XXXIII)
No one will confuse the Rubayyat with Mary Oliver’s work.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Home Team: Poems About Baseball (book review)
Edwin Romond hits another homer…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 23, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
imagining a dawn…
Scarcely day
It’s early morn again,
I see that day has chased the dawn,
the bland sky is one dimension,
no color, no cloud,
no excitement in the sky,
day has come,
I make a dawn in my mind,
too soon to think about tomorrow.
March 32, 2023
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Book review: Shakespeare’s Wife
Germaine Greer went overboard a bit…
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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 | Jan 16, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
just common sense
Licking the bowl
Some baker somewhere
scattered cinnamon on the sky,
it’s baked in now,
it’s a cookie dawn,
sweet layers of light,
what a treat!
March 24, 2023
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Book review: The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, not his best…
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 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 | Jan 11, 2024 | Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reviews of other poets
the lust for words…
goût
Words can be a feast.
There is a lust for words
that dances round the page,
and waits for you,
for me,
it doesn’t hide,
it lingers for the last little word,
the glittering one
that leaps from the quill,
and fills the plate,
and waits for you,
for me,
to taste the shine…
August 26, 2023
My poem “goût” is inspired by “When My Friend Asks Me a Difficult Question” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, August 25, 2023, as published on her website
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Book review: The Proud Tower
…it’s a lot more than a history book…
by Barbara Tuchman
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 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 | Jan 7, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
think of all the angles…
“When you are confronted
with a seemingly painless moral choice,
the odds are that
you haven’t looked deeply enough.”
p. 154
from What It Is Like to Go to War
by Karl Marlantes
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011
256 pages
Another reason to think twice.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, not his best…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 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 | Dec 31, 2023 | Reflections, Tidbits
I avoided reading any of the “Best of 2023…” stuff
because I figure I can do a lot better by hitching my wagon to one of my stars
and stepping right through the door into 2024.
OK, you can tell that I don’t mind mixing metaphors.
Just let me say this:
There are a lot of reasons to do things right—or more right—in 2024.
I’m committed to do what I can, according to my lights.
I’m going to try to grab all of my chances to do something good.
That’s my way of saying Happy New Year.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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