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Reader Questions, Round Two I am a good wife, so rather than watch the Buffy premiere at its regularly scheduled time, I am taping it so that Greg and I can watch it together when he comes home from guitar class. Why yes, it is killing me to wait, so I'm going to write journal entries until it's over. Let's see how far I get with the questions: Chiara asked for poetry recommendations. Poetry is such an individual-taste thing that it's hard to tell what people will like. I know that my own taste is very different from that of many people, but I am going to suggest things that I like and link to some of them anyway! Until I "discovered" the Romantics, I would have said that Wallace Stevens was my favorite poet. Some of his poems are here - these are mostly his best-known, the ones a lot of people have heard of. The page does include my favorite, though - The Idea of Order at Key West. I also love Sunday Morning, which pretty much sums up how I feel about religion. Now, of course, my heart belongs to the Romantics - and Wordsworth specifically. As I've said here before, it's his personal journey that makes the poetry so fascinating. I also love Shelley because he's such a fucking drama queen. I fall on the thorns of life! I bleed! indeed. I also love T.S. Eliot. Most people have had to read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in school, and I do love it, but not as much as I love Ash Wednesday. Other recommendations, in no particular order: Lucille Clifton, Philip Larkin, Sherman Alexie, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, and Rilke. The newly married Esperanca asks: If you had to relocate to a different continent/country, where would that be. And why, of course. Despite once denouncing the entire place on the basis of a bad relationship, I would move to Canada in a heartbeat. I (heart) Toronto dearly - one of my favorite people is there, but I love the city all on its own. It's so walkable and it's full of Lushy goodness and yummy ethnic food and I just adore it. I also fell in love with Vancouver on our honeymoon (I promise to finish those entries someday). I like Canada's healthcare and it's gun laws and the fact that you can buy Claritin over the counter and the people are so nice. I like the funny colored money and the loonies and toonies, after mocking them mercilessly for years. The 16-year-old-girl-that-I-was still thinks that living in the UK would be magical, marvelous, and amazing. I'm more skeptical of that at thirty, but I remember that girl, and for her sake, I think I would give it a go. Most places, though, I have that pesky language barrier to get over. |