Long Poems About Books
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Long poems about books. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Nov 2022 6:28am
6th Nov 2022 6:28am
REVIEW: Eightball: The Complete Collection by Daniel Clowes
I’ve been a fan of Clowes for about ten years now, having discovered him (I think) via the movie Ghost World. He was a random but life-changing find for me as a depressed adolescent in the early 2000s. His fiction is weird and sometimes even incomprehensible - it’s probably best compared to the films of David Lynch - but even when I had no idea what he was going for, something about the atmosphere of it all always stuck with me. His comics capture a certain existential malaise, misanthropy, and melancholia that I connect with.
Eightball: The Complete Collection is a bind-up of the...
Eightball: The Complete Collection is a bind-up of the...
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Oct 2022 11:56am
6th Oct 2022 11:56am
BOOK REPORT Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by PD James
This one was an autumn treat for me. I adore PD James, one of the best and simply most enjoyable of the post-Golden Age period in crime writing. Alongside Ruth Rendell, Colin Dexter, and later Val McDermid, she established a continuation of the finely wrought detective puzzle, but with a greater emphasis on psychological depth and atmosphere. These qualities existed in Golden Age writing, but its most renowned practitioner, Agatha Christie, was very light on them, and there was a feeling that the plot dominated everything. Later writers took the whodunit formula and made it into a whydunit,...
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
5th Oct 2022 1:43pm
5th Oct 2022 1:43pm
BOOK REPORT The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley (2005)
The Man in My Basement is an allegorical novel, comparable in its themes and resolution to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Anniston Bennet feels like a possibly deliberate modern evocation of Mr Kurtz, the Belgian colonialist whose soul rots away in the Congo. (And later Vietnam, reimagined as Col Kurtz and played by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.)
The difference is that where both Mr and Col Kurtz had long since cut loose from reality, fallen to the ravages of nihilistic violence, Bennett is still at a stage where he thinks he might be saved. More fool him.
The...
The difference is that where both Mr and Col Kurtz had long since cut loose from reality, fallen to the ravages of nihilistic violence, Bennett is still at a stage where he thinks he might be saved. More fool him.
The...
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
23rd Sep 2022 10:25am
23rd Sep 2022 10:25am
BOOK REPORT Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
My mileage tends to vary with transgressive fiction. A lot of the time I find it too tediously “shocking”, like a late-stage Family Guy episode. In the case of Snuff by Fight Club’s Chuck Palahniuk, however, there is a funny and engaging storyline going on.
Porn star Cassie Wright is planning to cap her career by breaking the world record for most men pleasured missionary-style on camera, aiming for 600. The story then unfolds in the green room, a basement equipped with TVs playing Wright’s back catalogue (From Her to Eternity, World Whore One, and so on), a chips-and-soda buffet,...
Porn star Cassie Wright is planning to cap her career by breaking the world record for most men pleasured missionary-style on camera, aiming for 600. The story then unfolds in the green room, a basement equipped with TVs playing Wright’s back catalogue (From Her to Eternity, World Whore One, and so on), a chips-and-soda buffet,...
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joegracegrace
Joe Grace
Joe Grace
Poem Published
9th Sep 2022 6:11am
9th Sep 2022 6:11am
The Time When America SAVED Africa
We don't usually think of World War One as America's finest hour.
For WW1 is simply not that glorious; decisive, or noble.
But if we will only take a new look at WW1,
we can find much to be impressed with !!
We should be grateful that it ended as positively as it did.
The cause of WW1 - what was it ??
The arch duke of Austria'Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian radical.
Austria wanted Serbia to pay for this offense. Germany pushed Aistria to make excessive demands, why ??!!
This next part is often overlooked:
the GERMANS were the ones panting...
For WW1 is simply not that glorious; decisive, or noble.
But if we will only take a new look at WW1,
we can find much to be impressed with !!
We should be grateful that it ended as positively as it did.
The cause of WW1 - what was it ??
The arch duke of Austria'Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian radical.
Austria wanted Serbia to pay for this offense. Germany pushed Aistria to make excessive demands, why ??!!
This next part is often overlooked:
the GERMANS were the ones panting...
#money
#books
#consumerism
409 reads
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
My Culture Fix - 06/07/22
The book I'm reading
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
#books
#PopCulture
#culture #nonfiction
#culture #nonfiction
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
30th Jun 2022 11:55pm
30th Jun 2022 11:55pm
Murder, Motive, and Memory: A Little Essay on Agatha Christie
The best encapsulation of detective novelist and “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie’s appeal came, I think, from the poet Stevie Smith, in a review she wrote of Christie’s late novel, 1967’s Endless Night: “I mostly read Agatha Christie this year (and every year). I wish I could write more about what she does for one in the way of lifting the weight, and so on."
I myself read Agatha Christie as a child and am still very fond of her. I like reading her work in paperback form, as published by Fontana with those beautiful and eccentric covers. I return to Christie whenever I need...
I myself read Agatha Christie as a child and am still very fond of her. I like reading her work in paperback form, as published by Fontana with those beautiful and eccentric covers. I return to Christie whenever I need...
#murder
#books
#historical #nonfiction
#historical #nonfiction
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
26th Jun 2022 5:25pm
26th Jun 2022 5:25pm
Literary Criticism
A couple of brief reflections,
one prosaic, one poetic.
(Both pathetic!)
(adapted from a couple of social media comments)
I grew up in a deprived seaside area, a town where all the county councils dumped their human refuse, so to speak, meaning in effect that we had a lot of mercenaries, untreated psychiatric patients, and even sexual offenders wandering around. The sort of place where you’d sit in McDonald’s and the mothers in the next booth would point at a man walking past and say “he’s a paedo”, or “he deals drugs.”
...
one prosaic, one poetic.
(Both pathetic!)
(adapted from a couple of social media comments)
I grew up in a deprived seaside area, a town where all the county councils dumped their human refuse, so to speak, meaning in effect that we had a lot of mercenaries, untreated psychiatric patients, and even sexual offenders wandering around. The sort of place where you’d sit in McDonald’s and the mothers in the next booth would point at a man walking past and say “he’s a paedo”, or “he deals drugs.”
...
#school
#books
#college
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RevolutionAL
Poem Published
15th Mar 2022 9:28am
15th Mar 2022 9:28am
Of A Book & A Box
In the United States;
Windsor Locks
situated alongside
Connecticut river
is the site of
Bradley International Airport,
serving the Greater Hartford-Springfield
region, boasting a square
kilometer of water
complimenting 25 squares
of land
hosting
New England Air Museum
The irony
a history of aerospace
along side...
Windsor Locks
situated alongside
Connecticut river
is the site of
Bradley International Airport,
serving the Greater Hartford-Springfield
region, boasting a square
kilometer of water
complimenting 25 squares
of land
hosting
New England Air Museum
The irony
a history of aerospace
along side...
#books
#travel
#historical
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MartenHoyle
Poem Published
21st Jan 2022 5:37pm
21st Jan 2022 5:37pm
LIMITED TIME OFFER: CHANCE FOR AN AUTOGRAPH
Be sure to grab your copy of (...) for a chance to receive a handwritten poem as well as a personalized letter from Eglantine West. Both will be written with raw ink from a real quill and on classical-style scroll paper. Limited to the next SEVEN (of ten) people who purchase a copy (whether in paperback or in hardcover). Just send proof of purchase to my Messages along with your mailing address. MEANWHILE...for just $30 (PayPal accepted only--and offer limited to the United States), you can receive a signed copy with a personal dedication of your choosing (limited to 100 words), as well as a...
#heartbroken
#breakup
#books
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
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goldenmyst
Poem Published
10th Dec 2021 8:07pm
10th Dec 2021 8:07pm
Cézanne Illustrates Carmen’s Diary
Cézanne Illustrates Carmen’s Diary
“My diary is written in liquid words which steam into the mist in maiden eyes whose secrets lack only the brushstrokes of a Cézanne for the words to find a home.”
“I appreciate the compliment but I am a dilettante painter. My art would splash into your script and cover the written memories that are so precious to you.”
“If I lose a jot or two it is of no consequence. Just be careful and do your best. Your pigment on my paper will make my scribbling art. My inking will be anointed by the stain of your palette...
“My diary is written in liquid words which steam into the mist in maiden eyes whose secrets lack only the brushstrokes of a Cézanne for the words to find a home.”
“I appreciate the compliment but I am a dilettante painter. My art would splash into your script and cover the written memories that are so precious to you.”
“If I lose a jot or two it is of no consequence. Just be careful and do your best. Your pigment on my paper will make my scribbling art. My inking will be anointed by the stain of your palette...
#love
#romantic
#books
#art
#sensual
486 reads
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AaronBraveHeart
Poem Published
7th Jan 2021 11:26pm
7th Jan 2021 11:26pm
Yahweh
I, a juvenile of the Israelites,
born in a legacy of knowledge concealed,
am passing through a portal of megaliths,
and before me a Cathedral was revealed.
"Wow!" I'm saying to myself alone;
adventurous and full of sacred passion;
the Old Testament on the piazza stone
appears and I touch it with compassion...
I already knew it; this was the Chapel
of the Pope and the Vatican secrets.
I immediately felt all alphabets, oh Apple
of Eden that is a corridor of decrets.
...
born in a legacy of knowledge concealed,
am passing through a portal of megaliths,
and before me a Cathedral was revealed.
"Wow!" I'm saying to myself alone;
adventurous and full of sacred passion;
the Old Testament on the piazza stone
appears and I touch it with compassion...
I already knew it; this was the Chapel
of the Pope and the Vatican secrets.
I immediately felt all alphabets, oh Apple
of Eden that is a corridor of decrets.
...
#God
#spiritual
#books
#magic
#historical
571 reads
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