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CoyoteKnight:
I've been reading the Comic/Graphic Novel "Kick Ass". Far bloodier and awesomer (yes, I just said that) than the movie.

SonofZ3:
Picked up World War Robot with a B&N gift card I got for x-mas. Pretty neat book, something to grab if you're an Ashley Wood fan. The captions for the paintings are letters written by soldiers, generals, and even the lunar based robot creator/catalyst for WWR/mad scientist named Rothchild. The art is great, but the letters feel uninspired and fail to flesh out the world of the paintings.

WWR link-http://www.worldwarrobot.com/

Joseph:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Jan 2011, 18:23 ---broom of the system is like probably his weakest fictional work, i'd say; his short fiction was much better and infinite jest is far more readable.

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I was kind of hoping you'd defend it a little, actually, but I suppose this means I can sit fairly comfortably in my own judgement. I had been planning on sending you a message or something to get your take on it.

SonofZ3:

--- Quote from: Katherine on 04 Jan 2011, 10:47 ---I'm a little over halfway through with Anna Karenina and have been enjoying it immensely.

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The Pevear and Volkhonsky translation? I loved it.

Joseph:
Here is a poem by Lorine Niedecker from the selected poems Cid Corman edited, The Granite Pail:


--- Quote from: Lorine Niedecker ---There's a better shine
on the pendulum
than is on my hair
and many times
  .  .  . 
I've seen it there.
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Maybe this won't do much for any of you, but I find this a remarkably crystalline, condensed and subtle poem, of the sort Emily Dickinson excelled in. The entire book is absolutely remarkable, and I want to get the collected poems that the University of California put out very very very much. Gilbert Sorrentino, Guy Davenport, and Jonathan Williams have some pretty nice essays about Niedecker that I've been rereading alongside the book.

I've also been reading Jan Zwicky's first book of poems, Where Have We Been. It's nice, and there are some pretty things, but ultimately nothing as shocking or as fully voiced as in her more recent collections Songs for Relinquishing the Earth and Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences.

And then I've been getting into this Evan S. Connell books, Mrs. Bridge it's excellent so far, but my thoughts on it aren't fully together. As I progress I'll try and write out a decent assessment.

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