What I've been reading

Not that much, because it was a busy week.

I did read this anthology of villanelles, because I enjoy villanelles. Especially the whole section of villanelles about villanelles, like this one by John Hollander:
This form with two refrains in parallel ( Read more... )

I am awake because I did something dreadful to my back, possibly involving pinched nerves, by falling asleep on the couch during the Daily Show on Wednesday and I spent the whole day at work agonizing because I was paranoid about coming off as a malingering flake and then promptly collapsed at home in a haze of exhaustion and painkillers, which did ( Read more... )

Ganked from aesc, it's the post your favorite bit of poetry meme! Except that I am notoriously incapable of having a single favorite of anything, so this is just the poem that's been running through my head today.

Dream-PedlaryThomas Lovell Beddoes ( Read more... )