Poet’s Corner – Lift Your Glass, It’s Christmastime (Three score Christmas past:I sit with my loves;Some felt;Some seen;Some lost in ether;Some? A dream.Bells of time, knelling:I have [...] December 25, 2020
Eshkol Nevo’s The Last Interview – An Absorbing Novel to Digest Slowly When I receive a book for review, my goal is to post when the book is available for purchase. Oftentimes that’s not possible if I receive [...] December 19, 2020
Jake Brigance Returns in John Grisham’s A Time for Mercy It’s been five years since Mississippi attorney Jake Brigance won a “not guilty” verdict for a Black father, Carl Lee Hailey, who [...] December 4, 2020
Marco Belzano’s I’m Staying Here – A Series of Tragedies Doom an Italian Village The cover of Marco Belzano’s novel, I’m Staying Here, shows a bell tower poking out from a lake. While tourists come to visit what was [...] December 1, 2020
Poet’s Corner – The Whole of Life I stand in heaven with my eyes closed;While dancing with the King:Aromatic as the Cherry Tree;With a breath of new-born spring.I’ve felt [...] November 15, 2020
Poet’s Corner – A Painter’s Poem Lifting the gold off my palette to make way for siennaMy box of colors accompany meThe sun seeps through bluish gray inviting light and [...] November 13, 2020
Éric Vuillard’s The War of the Poor – Income Inequality Has a Long History The disparity in income between the wealthy and working class in America continues to spark debates that will last long after the 2020 [...] November 9, 2020
Poet’s Corner – Done And I do believe, today is that day.Done.Done. Done. Done.Done with the hatersDone with the muteDone with the thoughtlessInsisting [...] November 3, 2020