Taking down My Life Closed Twice
I just want to give notice that I'll be taking down the My Life novel hoping to make something "original" out of it. (50 Shades of Spike! I'm going to do it in a week, so if you want to save it, you can still download it till then
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One of my favourite books, Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch touches on the Four Quartets. When I first read Howatch, I wanted to understand the poem, why she chose it, why it resonated with her characters, why I kept thinking about it.
I never appreciated poetry until I read your novel. After I read your story for the first time, I had a glimmer of understanding (at last). I have read it many times since, and I have had a copy of it on every device I own for many years. Thank you so very much. :D
Can you suggest a text that you would recommend as an introduction to poetry? What was the anthology Buffy bought? :)
I use a neat app called 'The Poetry App' - it has many wonderful actors perform poems. I don't know how to read or recite poetry correctly, so to hear so much performed in that app is very interesting. (I came to love 'As I Walked Out One Evening' by W. H. Auden thanks to Mark Strong's voice in that app. :)
Thank you once again - I don't have the words to express how I love your writing!
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The book Buffy had -- I think it was one I had called 500 Most Anthologized Poems, but I couldn't find it on Amazon-- found this instead, but it's not the same book.
http://www.amazon.com/Top-500-Poems-William-Harmon/dp/023108028X
I probably have the name wrong. In school, we always used Norton Anthologies, but they tend to be more narrow-- Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Norton Anthology of 19th Century Poetry-- so they're not as good just for browsing.
I;ll have to check out that poetry app! I also subscribe to a Youtube channel where a man with a sonorous voice recites many of the poems I love. I can't recite or read aloud either, so I appreciate hearing a good reader.
And I LOVE Susan Howatch. Her multiple-first person POV books actually inspired several books of mine-- including Long Day's Journey. GMTA!
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