Color me naïf

but I believed we were a civilized people, at one with nature.

& then I come across this.

Now lets show support for our future Radio Free Texas members (our kids). If your kids like to hunt or fish post pics of them killing there first deer or there fishing trip. Dont forget to keep adding pics to "Got hunting or fishing pics " forum everybody wants to see and read about your trips.

"My 9 year old daughter H.... took her first deer last Saturday."

geographies: Kabra

Out from Otoliths — Sheila E. Murphy's American Ghazals

Now out from Otoliths.

American Ghazals
Sheila E. Murphy
68 pages
Otoliths, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9872010-2-7
$14.45 + p&h
URL: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/american-ghazals/18929550

The ghazal is a time-honored literary form dating from 6th century Arabic verse. Successive versions of the form attest to its appeal across numerous cultures and periods of time. Focal themes associated with the form have encompassed divine and earthly love to those of loss, longing, and isolation. Ghazals are voiced and sung in many languages, including Persian, Turkish, and Urdu.

Despite highly specific rules governing the form in its early centuries, more contemporary versions have relaxed such practices. In contemporary English, the self-containment of each couplet offers an appealing potential for discovering subtle relationships among the (minimum of five) different couplets within a single piece. Subliminal echoes of perception and emergent contextual linkages provide a renewal of sensibility for readers of the ghazal.

The pieces in this collection represent a selection of works written as ‘American Ghazals,’ based upon the distinctly American idiom in which the pieces have been developed. The more I read the form in translation and in English, the more apparent the fit of pivotal shifts in language, thought, and content. The American ghazal offers rich practice, replete with political, social, psychological, and meditative states that redefine perceptions in a new century.

Sheila E. Murphy

geographies: Wowan

geographies: The Caves

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We have more pressing issues than litery awards.
Yep, like literacy

The / philistines are / back in charge

Campbell Newman, the newly-elected Queensland Premier, has, as the first act of his new government, scrapped the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, arguing the $244,000 saving was part of the Liberal National Party's promised cost-cutting drive.

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