Monday, July 8, 2013

Two poems and two books

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"Why I Opted for the More Expensive Oil at Jiffy Lube," a poem by Julie Price Pinkerton, Rattle, Volume 19, Number 2 (Summer 2013).

"On Reading a Newspaper for the First Time as an Adult," a poem by Sharon Olds, from her collection Stag's Leap (Knopf, 2012, p. 71), and originally published in The New Yorker

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (Random House, 2011). 

My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather (Knopf, 1926).