Tagged “poetry”
Rain - Francis Ponge
From the gutter it flows with the restraint of a shallow creek until it tumbles out into a perfectly vertical net, rather imperfectly braided, all the way to the ground where it breaks and sparkles into brilliant needles.
How Should One Read a Book?
It depends on the book. Talks about different authors approaches to describing the same scene; the focus is completely different for each, and so each would be read very differently.
Interesting to re-read How I read and see if anything has changed.
Radiolab Podcast: Translation
Interesting bit on translating sign language at a standup show (for a kid!), trying to choose appropriate tone & sign choice.
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