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1857551 No.1857551 [Reply] [Original]

Hey guys, do any of you keep lit-related blogs? It could be your poems, book reviews, whatever really. I'm just starting a tumblr now and I'd like some blogs like this to follow. To avoid accusations of spam I won't post my URL unless asked, but I'll be writing about poems, books and the odd current affairs thing. I'm making my first post now about a Yeats and a Dylan Thomas poem.

>> No.1857605

I don't have the energy to make my own blog/tumblr that is lit related, but here's some that I read from time to time.

http://lettersfromalibrarian.blogspot.com/
http://www.onfiction.ca/
http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/
http://mindfulpleasures.blogspot.com/
http://sebald.wordpress.com/

>> No.1857650

>>1857605
Thanks, I'll check these out. And I'll copy my post when I've written it.

>> No.1857738

So /lit/, what do you think of my article writing skills? It'd be great if you could let me know. By the way, I've left Dylan Thomas for another time; Yeats was enough to write about.

I wish I knew what quality drove people to write the books, poems, music and so on that I really admire. I was never quite sure what Yeats's poem "The Collar-Bone of a Hare" meant, but after reading Seamus Heaney's interpretation I think it has something to say on the matter. Yeats wrote:

" I would find by the edge of the water

The collar-bone of a hare

. . . And pierce it through with a gimlet, and stare

At the old bitter world . . .

Through the white thin bone of a hare."

I don't have Heaney's book on Yeats with me to quote, but his argument was that Yeats is talking about what it is to be a poet; of seeing the world through a different, mystical lens from others. The idea that Yeats - and perhaps all writers - see things in a way I would never think of just makes me want to meet the people I read and listen to even more. And looking at what Yeats says about his poetry, he really does have an original way of viewing the world. Here is what he wrote about his inspiration for "Anashuya and Vijaya". It is

"about a man loved by two women, who had the one soul between them, the one woman waking when the other slept, and knowing but daylight as the other only night. It came into my head when I saw a man at Rosses Point carrying two salmon. 'One man with two souls,' I said, and added, 'Oh no, two people with one soul.'"

I will forever be jealous of imaginations like this - that can see a salmon and think of a soul. I would love to have a poet's eye.

>> No.1857751

I have a standard blog that I use for book reviews and I'll post short stories on it once I finish them. Some of it is boring life event stuff, still want?

>> No.1857758

>>1857751
Yeah, go for it.

>> No.1857760

>>1857758
http://landonrode.tumblr.com/

>> No.1857774

>>1857760
Cheers. Since I liked your Breakfast of Champions review, I followed you.

>> No.1857782

>>1857774
Thankya.