How I love to read. Once a student asked if I felt forced to read because I was a librarian, as if reading were an onerous professional task. Having just finished the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman the night before, I answered that reading was one of the greatest pleasures of my life….
Tag: Slowness
nobody beautiful…
On the subject of slowness, here are two poets who hint at its virtues in poems I serendipitously stumbled upon today. Maryann Hurtt quotes e e cummings in her poem “Turtle Explains,” published in the October 2021 issue of Verse-Virtual: “nobody beautiful ever hurries.” Turtle “takes this seriously,” finds time to study “crevices / tiny…
Paraphrasing Yiyun Li
Slowness is a virtue. Li reminds us of this as we read #Tolstoytogether. To translate it into my own voice: our time on earth is limited, so why not take as much space as we can by slowing down? I tell myself this as I sort through poems, consider them, read them. Why rush? Read…