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Book Note: The Foreign Correspondent

All you fans of the global conspiratorial novel by the likes of Clancy, Flynn, Balducci, Ludlum and Follett, I have a veering-away option. Try a book I just completed, The Foregn Correspondent by Alan Furst. As a smooth writer with a suspenseful story not bathed in lurid shock, he places himself in a league of his own. This one's about the Mussolini-Hitler combine. Order conveniently from the Amazon Ferris Wheel nearby.

February 7, 2010 | 1:02 AM Comments  0 comments

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There

I awake in the bare bedroom,
the shade pulled full down
over the room’s lone window.
Yet the day is bright
and the sun casts
a thin wall of radiance
past the shade’s edge,
cutting the room
into two triangles.
Lying on my side,
peeking past the
pillow’s upraised corner
with one eye
I see through
the shining wall
to the small
green glass frog
          beside the lamp
               on the table
                    in the corner.


From Allan Cox’s collection, “Thin Wall of Radiance.”
Copyright©2010, all rights reserved.



February 3, 2010 | 5:02 AM Comments  0 comments

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Chair


We spentdinner last night with a couple we
deem dear.Ease is our union. Three

hourstogether, time was as fleet afoot
as adetermined west wind. This

morning, though,I’m dazzled by that humble chair.
I have littlerecollection of how it held me so well

and inflictedno discomfort. What better can I say
than it wasinvisible? So

while theselines are not an ode to a chair—nothing so
formal anddisciplined as that—they are a tribute

to commoncomfort. Of course there are chairs
foreign to ourbodies and ugly in our sight,

but when we’reso privileged to settle into one—
and forget aboutit—

and give ourattention to what brought us there . . .

Life support



From AllanCox’s collection, “In the Middle of Time.”
Copyright©2009, all rights reserved.



January 27, 2010 | 9:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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Otis

Last week I saw a movie
that touched me—
“Crazy Heart,” starring
Jeff Bridges as a
down-and-out,
talented country singer
and composer.
He calls himself “Bad Blake”
and refuses revealing
his real name.
Alcoholic and afflicted
with emphysema, he loses
the woman he loves.
His forehead pressed against
the black wide wall of granite,
futile hands upraised as if to
climb a ladder, he
checks himself
into a clinic;
there takes the cure
and gets back
on track with his music
but not the woman.
He seems, face freshened,
truly redeemed
in what threatens to be
a shortened life,
reclaims himself onstage
with his true name:
Otis—an old family
designation of honor
and masculinity;
in the Greek—
“keen of hearing.”




From Allan Cox’s Collection, “Light Log on the Fire.”


Copyright© 2010, all rights reserved.



January 20, 2010 | 1:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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Book Note: Sixty Feet, Six Inches

Die-hard baseball fans, here it is, a book on your sport by insders for insiders. Truly, it could bore others because this is a cornucopia of detailed strategies in lock-step for pitching and hiting by two of the best who ever played the game. Authors are pitcher Bob Gibson--a man of indescribable intensity and candor, who I once watched on the first base side strike out 17 Detroit Tigers in the first game of the 1968 World Series, and Reggie Jackson, hailed as "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting for the Yankees in World Series play. Both are knowledgeable and entertaining Hall-of-Famers who share secrets they never would have in their playing days. You want to plumb the meaing of greatness in the playing this game? Read this book! Order it from the Amazon Ferris Wheel below right on this page.

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