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Poetry.
Long, long ago, for an English course, I was required to buy a copy of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. It was a thick and expensive book and I seem to recall that we only ever read a handful of poems from it during the course. Being a lover of poetry, I decided to read its thirteen-hundred pages cover to cover to see what I liked. At some point, as I read, I started sticking pieces of paper into the book to mark the ones I liked the most.
Well, yesterday I found that book still on its shelf, covered with dust, the markers still in its pages, and since I have a place on my site where I've been recording my favorite poems, it seemed apt to go through the book and record the poems that I had marked. It wasn't always easy. Sometimes it wasn't clear to me what poem on a given page had caused me to think it worth marking. I'm clearly not the same person now as I was then.
Still, it was a rewarding job, which I just finished. You can follow that link above to read my favorite poems, should you care too. As for me, I'm thinking that maybe its time to reread that poetry book, and put in new markers to record what my tastes are now.
Well, yesterday I found that book still on its shelf, covered with dust, the markers still in its pages, and since I have a place on my site where I've been recording my favorite poems, it seemed apt to go through the book and record the poems that I had marked. It wasn't always easy. Sometimes it wasn't clear to me what poem on a given page had caused me to think it worth marking. I'm clearly not the same person now as I was then.
Still, it was a rewarding job, which I just finished. You can follow that link above to read my favorite poems, should you care too. As for me, I'm thinking that maybe its time to reread that poetry book, and put in new markers to record what my tastes are now.