To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Last Saturday, we stumbled across a couple of yard sales, reminding ourselves why we’ve stopped going to yard sales. However, I picked up a couple buck’s worth of books: Click for full size I got: A collection of sportscaster Jack Buck’s poems. I mean, they cannot be worse than the complete works of Rod McKuen, […]
This chapbook, published by the St. Louis Writer’s Center, was J2‘s first volume of poetry. Unlike his elder, he did not receive the Rod McKuen treatment fresh from the womb. As I was active in the poetry scene in St. Louis at that time, I thought perhaps I might know of her. However, she’s a […]
So this weekend marked the first really dangerous book fair of the season: The St. John’s United Church of Christ book fair. We went to this one last year, so I knew what to expect: I picked up a box right when I went through the door instead of pretending I was only going to […]
To brag, here’s the complete list of books I read in the 2007 goal year: Home Improvement:52 Weekend Projects by Dan Ramsay Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen Dr. Kookie, You’re Right by Mike Royko Grifters & Swindlers Cynthia Manson (ed) Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows by Rod McKuen Kiss by Ed McBain Robert Frost by […]
This book is a chapbook; that is, a small collection of poetry published probably at Kinko’s and often sold for a nominal fee. Back in 1994 and 1995, I did a couple of my own, although I forked out for the double-sided printing and the saddle stapling instead of the single-sided tape bound print job […]
Somewhere in the 20th century, the academics killed poetry. Sylvia Plath served as one of the weapons, although it’s not clear she intentionally participated. That is, poetry used to be accessible to the masses. Good poetry was accessible and profound. You could read a poem and get its point, enjoy its language if applicable, and […]
In September 2003, I posted pictures of the Noggle library. As some time has elapsed since then and we have found a replacement for Honormoor that allows us to house more books without displacing any cats, let me boast upon the bookshelves we have now. A long view of the hardbacks I have read. Good […]
Even though we’ve gone to a couple smaller book fairs this year, yesterday really marked the beginning of the book fair season for us, as we hit three smaller fairs around the metro area. We started bright and early with the Immaculate Conception Church in Arnold. It was a bright, sunny day and our trip […]
With the last post, I’m calling an end to this year’s enumeration of reading. 2006ish stands at 89 books, which is probably far less than I bought at book fairs. These books include: The Empty Trap by John D. MacDonald The Executioners by John D. MacDonald Mine the Harvest by Edna St. Vincent Millay Johnny […]
As you may recall, gentle reader, I bought this book earlier this year at the Friends of the Webster Groves Library book fair. It’s a collection of 82 sonnets that tell the arc of the Eve story. You know, Adam and Eve, but not limited to the Genesis account of it. Using that myth as […]