Showing posts with label Willa Cather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Willa Cather. Show all posts

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).  

Friday, December 28, 2012

My Ántonia (Willa Cather)

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"I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska."

From My Ántonia, a novel by Willa Cather (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918).