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All month long we've been polling staff here to find out everyone's favorite poems, and now we want to hear from YOU - what's your all-time favorite poem? Which piece of verse do you find yourself returning to again and again? If you were trapped on a desert island with only one poem in your … Continue reading Poetry Giveaway!
Today's poem of the day for this final week of National Poetry Month (oh, where does the time go?) is one from E. E. Cummings, that master manipulator of language: i carry your heart with me(i carry it in. One of the most prolific and experimental poets of the twentieth century, Cummings cultivated a distinct … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in’ by e. e. cummings
Busy week, both here in the store and in the book world. Here are the highlights, with pictures!Three Cups of Man, This is Disappointing - The big news this week surrounded Greg Mortenson, author of the bestselling memoir Three Cups of Tea. Apparently, "memoir" turns out to be a loose term for the book that … Continue reading As the Book World Turns…
It's only appropriate that Earth Day should fall in National Poetry Month; what more universal Muse have poets known over the centuries than Mother Nature? (Well all right, a case could be made for love, sure, but Mother Nature has surely broken fewer hearts and inspired more odes than laments in comparison.) In honor of … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘A Song for the Rolling Earth’ by Walt Whitman
It's Earth Day, and we're happy to be participating in an Austin-wide campaign to raise money for local non-profit organizations. All day today, bring in your 5% Day postcard (available here and at participating business across the city) and we'll donate 5% of your purchase to one of the non-profits in our area committed to … Continue reading We Wish to Speak for the Trees
This Saturday, April 23 at 2pm we'll welcome Cuban poet Jorge Enrique Gonzalez-Pacheco to read from his new collection, Bajo La Luz de Mi Sangre (Under the Light of My Blood.) This unique volume of poetry, printed in both Spanish and English, just received a fantastic review in The Latin American Review of Books. Jorge … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘Habana’ by Jorge Enrique Gonzalez-Pacheco
Last week we promised a super secret sneaky Lemony Snicket contest, and it looks like it's turned up over on the BookKids blog - how sneaky, indeed! If you composed a 13 Words songs for Snicket's disappointing event last week, head over and find out if the winner is YOU! Does this sound familiar: "I … Continue reading Sneaky Snicket Sweepstakes
Today's poem of the day comes from Scott Montgomery, the head of MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore-within-a-bookstore. Here's what Scott has to say about Onion Street by Reed F. Coleman: "Many of today's finest crime writers are also are accomplished poets, so it seemed like MysteryPeople should get in on the act for National Poetry Month. … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘Onion Street’ by Reed F. Coleman
Yesterday the winners of the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced. The honor in the Poetry category went to the collection The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press) by Kay Ryan. (Other finalists included The Common Man by Maurice Manning and Break the Glass by Jean Valentine.) The Best of It is Ryans' … Continue reading Poem of the Day: ‘This Life’ by Kay Ryan
We're so excited about our Top Shelf pick for May, Galore, the new novel by Michael Crummey, that we couldn't wait for our print newsletter to come out to share this review by Master Bookseller Kester Smith. Galore is already the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; Caribbean & Canada and the … Continue reading Review: ‘Galore: A Novel’
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