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5 Comments
January 26, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Hi, glad to see you’ve got a blog going again. I look forward to more of your lovely photographs.
January 6, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hey–I liked Stephen Haven’s book precisely for the reasons you disliked it. I used it in a writing class last term to navigate the ideas about home and homecoming–as a way to get my class writing about themselves. Perhaps if you read a few of his poems–the sense of that upstate he fails to connect with in his memoir might be easier to understand? Who knows.
January 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Actually I have read several of his poems, and I like them very much. I think he is a good poet and a good writer, but I don’t think River Lock is a great book.
April 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Just got an author signed copy of Sanfords of Amsterdam by Alex Robb with jacket. We did not have one at the WEM. Are they hard to find?
April 22, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Yes they are quite hard to find. I have only had two or three in 15 years.