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my sketchbook, it's all done in fountain pen, and i've removed some of the ones that make me look excessively crazy.
Rafael Morales:
Collected poems (1943-2003)
MUJER DESNUDA
Rafael MORALES (b. 1919 Toledo region – d. 2005)
Hermoso cuerpo de mujer desnuda,
Territorio frutal,
País de las calandrias aurorales,
Tierno fluir del alba sobre un agua dormida.
El día está naciendo de tu nácar temprano,
De las cáldas rosas que emergen de tu sangre,
El día esta naciendo del cerezal cautivo de tu boca.
Sobre tus pechos brota la luz de los nervos,
Y port us brazos llega fluvial y prezosa la mañana,
Mientran cantan la saves
Por la clara elemeda de tu pelo.
NUD DE FEMEIE
Rafael Morales
(b. 1919, Toledo – d. 2005)
Nud de femeie, corp minunat,
Ţinut plin de fruct,
Zori cântate de ciocârlii,
Curs liniştit al serii în ape adormite.
În fildeşul tău pur mijesc zorii,
Trandafiri fierbinţi se nasc în sângele tău,
Ziua surâde în cireşul captiv al buzelor tale.
Lumina crestelor de zăpadă sclipeşte în sânii tăi
Dimineaţa vine curgând domol în braţele tale,
Iar păsărelele ciripesc
În şuvoiul de aur al pletelor tale.
Versiune în limba Română
de Constantin Roman
Londra, 29 August 2011,
© 2012, Copyright Constantin Roman
www.romanianstudies.org/content/2012/08/poetry-in-transla...
After organizing my families stuff in our storage unit recently, I came across boxes & boxes of my childhood books that my mother had saved. While I was growing up reading was really encouraged and for holidays and birthdays I often got books from my parents as gifts.
This is only some of my Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys collection. I believe I might have all the original classic ND books (1-56) as well as the the original classic HB books (1-58).
I was totally obssesed with Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys when I was a kid in the 70s-early 80s. I blame the obssesion for my continued love of mystery books and TV shows.
I plan to read all the Nancy Drew books again and I'll also be doing lots of book scanning since a lot of the cover art on these books is really fantastic!
I LOVE art, ANY kind of art. It makes me happy. It inspires me. Most recently I was inspired by artist Jane Mount who began drawing people's bookshelves (to see Jane"s bookshelf drawings click here ). Like Jane, I have a fascination for looking at people's book shelves. You find out a lot about a person by looking at their books.
So I gathered up a sample of mine that I thought was representative and sketched them my own self.
Here they are.
A Beautiful Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce. 1st edition given to me by my Mother, who also recommended this book to me. This lovely book is about a woman's life growing up in the Sonoran Desert. The authors individuality, insight and empathy made this my very favorite book about Arizona; the state, of course, where my heart lives. I'm crazy in love with my desert. Well any desert really, but the Sonoran desert is extra special. I am one of those people who falls just as much in love with places as with people.
Electricity For The Entertainment Electrician and Technician by Richard Cadena. The book I SHOULD be reading every night until I've learnt it all by heart. I am very privileged to know its author, one of the most interesting, nicest men I have ever met. I need to get my copy signed!
The Dragon by Jane Gaskell. 1st edition. The book I discovered freshman year of high school. The main character is so much like me. This book and the others in the series were my comfort through many lonely times. No mater how bad things seemed, I could always escape to this incredible world.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers and the guide to Insects and Spiders. This sort of represents all field guides actually. I have a bunch, many of them given to me by my photographer father who gets free copies whenever his pictures are printed in one of them. I love wildlife of all sorts and my family showed me at an early age, how to identify all the cool stuff i find on my rambles.
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend. Ah, the cringe-worthy adventures of Adrian Mole. Much like the British TV show hit, The Office, Adrian Mole is painfully funny. So horribly awkward you just cant stop reading, and so terribly, squirmishly familiar.
Compost. The best guide I've found on the subject so far. My dream has always been to have a big garden.
Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee. Tanith Lee is my very favorite author of all time. Her writing is beautiful and creepy and sexual and dark and gorgeously grim. I cant get enough of her. Fortunately she writes a lot! This isnt even my favorite book of hers, but it does have the best title.
Desert Places by Robyn Davidson. The author's first book (which i own a 1st edition copy of) Tracks, was an account of her trip across the Australian desert alone except for her camels and her dog. This is another author of rare insight, empathy and independence, definately a hero of mine. She, like me, loves deserts.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. Natalie Babbit is the most gifted story teller I have ever read. Each of her lovely children's stories is nothing less than perfect. Tuck is probably her most famous, but I have them all and love them all, The Search For Delicious, Kneeknock Rise, The Eyes Of The Amaryllis...
Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must be More to Life by Maurice Sendak . First edition. Yes Mr. Sendak wrote Where The Wild Things are, but he wrote so many other good ones too. I collect books that he's illustrated. He is one of the main reasons I wanted to become an illustrator. This one has a very independently minded heroine named Jenny, who happens to be an adorable, fuzzy dog. Dogs are another weakness of mine.
The Lonely Planet Guide To Baja and Los Cabos. To represent all the travel books I have and my constant wanderlust. Baja is one of my favorite places on earth and it is, of course, a desert.
A Beginner's Guide To Bats. Just another neat field guide.
The stones are two that I brought home from a beach in Baja California. I sometimes use them to meditate when I have my life together enough to do things like meditation.
The dragon is one of a set of Dragon bookends my Mother brought to me from a trip she took to England. I love them!
An Unfinished Life:
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
By Robert Dallek
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
Soraj and Nathiya came over to pick up their copy of Diamonds. Nathiya found me on flickr. She was searching for a location for a photo shoot in Fremont and found pictures of her own wedding (to Soraj) on my site. Soraj is the brother of Saiyudt's husband. Saiyudt is the sister of Pryoon who is housekeeper and cook at my house in Bangkok; Saiyudt had come to the Bay Area to help my father out when he was between wives and met Soraj's brother at college here.
Several years ago we were all in Thailand at the same time and my Ah Padht gave me a box of cookies with a picture of the cookie empire family that her daughter Pong had married into. I took the box of cookies to Soraj's mother's house in Chiengmai to share. Soraj saw the picture on the cookie tin and recognized Pong's husband; they had gone to school together.
Nathiya and Soraj then came to my house in Bangkok to see the school friend and to see Nathiya's grandmother who lived in the house behind our house and had been friends with my grandmother. Nathiya remembered coming to the compound when she was a little girl which is why she wanted to read my book. This sequence of coincidences does not seem to amaze any of the family nearly as much as me.
The Soul of a Tree by George Nakashima
The Heart's Code by Paul Pearsall
Red Oaks and Black Birches: the science and lore of trees by Rebecca Rupp
The Literary Art & Activism of Rick Bass by Alan Weltzien
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
The Little Book of the Human Shadow by Robert Bly
Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver
Handbound journal by Gabe Shaughnessy
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman
How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace by Paul Blanc
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
check out my blog post on biomimicry (inspiration from a wasp nest)
I need to expand. I have plans of building a set of shelves across the entire wall in one of the downstair's rooms. The worst part of it is keeping them clean.
I finally got a copy (well, it costed some) of Koichi Yanagimoto's great catalogue of Dick Bruna's Zwarte Beertjes Cover Designs (Glyph, Tokyo 2004): 446 pages, more than 2000 colour illustrations!
Book design: Suzuka Yanagimoto.
And if it was
(Carol RUMENS,
b. 1944, London)
If it was only for you
all along, all the time, all the way,
and nothing was left of our brightest exchange
of brain-light and blood-sugar; if
it turned out to be just for the flirt and the fling, the great luck
when it worked, when we came, and I caught
the whiff of your sweat, like human sweat,
and your glow, saw your feathers and hair
flare like an Inca head-dress, though
no more than a match-flame, over and out, not catching
anyone’s fire but mine, any time but now,
would you forgive me, words?
from: ‘Blind Spots’ (Seren, Bridgend, 2007), p. 97
Iar dacă …
(Carol RUMENS,
n. 1944, Londra)
Iar dacă ar fi fost doar pentru tine
din nou, mereu şi până la sfârşit,
până nimic nu ar mai fi rămas din dialogul nostru efervescent,
din sclipirile de idei şi din sângele aprins; iar dacă
totul s-ar fi înfiripat doar ca un flirt, sau ca un simplu impuls, atunci marele noroc
al întamplării, când am atins apexul şi am simţit
parfumul sudoarei trupului tău,
şi transcendenţa ta, şi am admirat pletele tale
arzând ca penele unui Indian Incaş, deşi, totuşi,
nu mai mult decât flacăra unui chibrit, aprins şi imediat stins, nedând foc
nimănui altcuiva decât mie, oricând, dar nu acum,
oare, mă veţi fi iertat, voi, vorbele mele?
Versiune în limba Română de Constantin ROMAN,
© 2014, Copyright Constantin ROMAN, Londra
Carol RUMENS
Carol RUMENS
Short Bio Note:
Carol RUMENS (b. 1944, London) is the author of 14 collections of poems, as well as occasional fiction, drama and translation. She has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and was joint recipient of an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Her most recent publication is the prose book, ‘Self into Song’, based on three poetry lectures delivered in the Bloodaxe-Newcastle University Lecture Series. She is currently professor in creative writing at Bangor University, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her latest collection is De Chirico’s And if it was
(Carol RUMENS,
b. 1944, London)
If it was only for you
all along, all the time, all the way,
and nothing was left of our brightest exchange
of brain-light and blood-sugar; if
it turned out to be just for the flirt and the fling, the great luck
when it worked, when we came, and I caught
the whiff of your sweat, like human sweat,
and your glow, saw your feathers and hair
flare like an Inca head-dress, though
no more than a match-flame, over and out, not catching
anyone’s fire but mine, any time but now,
would you forgive me, words?
from: ‘Blind Spots’ (Seren, Bridgend, 2007), p. 97
Iar dacă …
(Carol RUMENS,
n. 1944, Londra)
Iar dacă ar fi fost doar pentru tine
din nou, mereu şi până la sfârşit,
până nimic nu ar mai fi rămas din dialogul nostru efervescent,
din sclipirile de idei şi din sângele aprins; iar dacă
totul s-ar fi înfiripat doar ca un flirt, sau ca un simplu impuls, atunci marele noroc
al întamplării, când am atins apexul şi am simţit
parfumul sudoarei trupului tău,
şi transcendenţa ta, şi am admirat pletele tale
arzând ca penele unui Indian Incaş, deşi, totuşi,
nu mai mult decât flacăra unui chibrit, aprins şi imediat stins, nedând foc
nimănui altcuiva decât mie, oricând, dar nu acum,
oare, mă veţi fi iertat, voi, vorbele mele?
Versiune în limba Română de Constantin ROMAN,
© 2014, Copyright Constantin ROMAN, Londra
Carol RUMENS
Carol RUMENS
Short Bio Note:
Carol RUMENS (b. 1944, London) is the author of 14 collections of poems, as well as occasional fiction, drama and translation. She has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and was joint recipient of an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Her most recent publication is the prose book, ‘Self into Song’, based on three poetry lectures delivered in the Bloodaxe-Newcastle University Lecture Series. She is currently professor in creative writing at Bangor University, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her latest collection is De Chirico’s Threads, published by Seren Books. -
1 TB My Book External HD
4 GB of Ram
Me=Pig in shit
Track info: Iceblink by Pass into Silence
on Pop Ambient 2006 from Kompakt Records
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
My Library 📕 📚
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
I know this isn't the best shot I've ever taken, but I really, really love it.......it's part my bookshelves taken with the new PX600 film from The Impossible Project (I was convinced it wasn't going to turn out).
I love books.......I can't stop buying them, it's an addcition :)
~ dappled with joy and love
A lovely gem of a book, with testimonies and memories from people who knew these luminaries ~ just look at the gulistaan...
Balraj Sahni (*smile*)
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (my favourite)
Guru Dutt (in awe)
Ismat Chughtai (my favourite!)
Kaifi Azmi ~ a soft breeze on a cool day
Kishore Kumar (playful; a bit mad - in all the right sense of it!)
Krishan Chander (awed... )
Raj Kapoor ('He is part of India's national psyche', Bunny Reuben ~ undoubtedly)
Satyajit Ray (genius film maker; Shatranj ke Khiladi one of my all-time fave movies)
Actually, the title is something that was in my head as soon as I awoke this morning, and these lines were echoing throughout my morning routine, how wonderful and evocative they are, and how much I love that Thomas Stearns Eliot had written them! Love all of them, but...
burnt out ends of smoky days...
...
... Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
~ Ahhh...
And of course, being spring in London; it is quite like that today, it has been raining since early morning, and quite cold too. Gruff.
How #LarryEllison and a #CarMechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing’s #GreatestRace, #AmericasCup , #Twice
My Library of Intentions
Reference books. books I consult, Books I read, Books I will read at a later date
The death of Alexander the Great and the bloody fight for his empire.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books that I have read or will read at some point. The books are non fiction, history,biographies and autobiography’s of people and historical events I found to be interesting.
I took some images from last year's Hawaii trip and put together a little book, with homage and apologies to Edward Ruscha.
Books I buy, books I read, Books I intend to read, all in my "Library of Intentions".
A very good compilation of facts and illustrations. Its author is a German-born academic living in Australia.
The Spanish born Borgia, (originally Borja), who reached the pinnacle of the RC hierarchy in the Vatican: thought-provoking, and an essential reading for understanding the art history dynamics of that period.
As in other fields, misconceptions and misinterpretations which piled up over centuries, over the actual historical facts, called for a more objective assessment of the sources, which, in this case was carried out brilliantly by the author.
Given the tightly knit and even incestuous relations amongst the ruling families, including the Church, the author had included genealogies of several families connected to the Borgias - an indispensable addition to the book.
my sketchbook, it's all done in fountain pen, and i've removed some of the ones that make me look excessively crazy.
Understanding Wall Street
by Jeffrey B. Little, Lucien Rhodes
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary