RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[spiralsheep]

What are you reading?

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Personal reading

[spiralsheep]

I'm in a contemporary poetry mood at the moment. But I've run out of new books so might have to reread Wisława Szymborska or go to the library for ??? :D

Since last Wed I read:
48. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, by Tony Hoagland, 2010, poetry, 4/5, and
50. Silence, by Gillian Clarke, 2024, poetry, 4/5 also

49. revisited the 90s via a sequential art time machine. Andi Watson has made much better comics but he was funny from the first. Quasiquotes:
~ Pay your chops, hone your dues, and curve your learning. ~
~ World's Biggest Mini Golf Course! ~

Currently reading
51. Forest of Noise, by Mosab Abu Toha, 2024, which centres around his life in Gaza in recent years. I thought Abu Toha's previous collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear was excellent and this new book is living up to my hopes so far. Token quote:

When it rains, farmers think the sky loves them.
They are wrong. It rains either because
the clouds cannot carry the sacks of water too long,
or because a sparrow has said a prayer
when it heard the thirsty roots beg.

Re: Personal reading

[meteordust]

That's a lovely quote!

Re: Personal reading

[spiralsheep]

There's a reason why Mosab Abu Toha is a popular poet: he's good! :-)
I've finished Forest of Noise now and it has a different emotional feel and verbal texture from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear but they're both excellent. Highly recommended (warning for the author living in a war zone, obviously).