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hermionesviolin) wrote2021-02-27 09:00 pm
hermionesviolin) wrote2021-02-27 09:00 pm
literary connections
When Thom came over last night, one of the library books I had out was Aaron Becker's board book You Are Light. Thom commented on it, so I walked them through it and commented on the weird "This light is you. And you are light." pivot at the end.
I referenced "you are the bread and the knife" and so then I pulled up the Billy Collins poem and then also the "fool to be in love with you" one -- which led to assorted Billy Collins Internet rabbit holes, including Smith College Poetry Center readers, which led to MartÃn Espada's "Imagine the Angels of Bread." For two English majors in love, we don't actually talk about poetry much, but we both like poetry, even though we don't read much of it these days.
Oh, Joy Harjo is going to be Smith's Commencement speaker this year. (And Ruth Simmons will be Harvard's -- which is a Smith connection, not a poetry connection, to be clear.)
In other news, DRFD (the umbrella I'm under at work -- Division of Research and Faculty Development) has a book club, and this month it was Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, which I went to for the conversation even though I haven't read the book yet. Next month, it's Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath, because Amy (my direct manager, and the one person of color in the entire ~8-person management team) loves it. I started reading the book today, and about a third of the way through the book, one of the things Juliet learns about in her "thrown into the deep end of queer hippie Portland, Oregon" is polyamory -- which means that my manager has at least some context for polyamory (and so will everyone else at work who reads this book). :)
I referenced "you are the bread and the knife" and so then I pulled up the Billy Collins poem and then also the "fool to be in love with you" one -- which led to assorted Billy Collins Internet rabbit holes, including Smith College Poetry Center readers, which led to MartÃn Espada's "Imagine the Angels of Bread." For two English majors in love, we don't actually talk about poetry much, but we both like poetry, even though we don't read much of it these days.
Oh, Joy Harjo is going to be Smith's Commencement speaker this year. (And Ruth Simmons will be Harvard's -- which is a Smith connection, not a poetry connection, to be clear.)
In other news, DRFD (the umbrella I'm under at work -- Division of Research and Faculty Development) has a book club, and this month it was Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, which I went to for the conversation even though I haven't read the book yet. Next month, it's Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath, because Amy (my direct manager, and the one person of color in the entire ~8-person management team) loves it. I started reading the book today, and about a third of the way through the book, one of the things Juliet learns about in her "thrown into the deep end of queer hippie Portland, Oregon" is polyamory -- which means that my manager has at least some context for polyamory (and so will everyone else at work who reads this book). :)
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