tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59705693282653482952024-02-29T21:19:50.835-08:00Magdalena BallBook musingsMagdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.comBlogger513125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-18923368800624624102024-02-29T21:19:00.000-08:002024-02-29T21:19:01.482-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter March<img align="left" height="239" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2215/1530552313_e385c522f1_b.jpg" width="160" />The March Compulsive Reader Newsletter is now on its way to inboxes around the world. 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This month's issue includes 12 new reviews from authors like Jennifer Maiden, Patrick Süskind, Sarah Maclay, and Deborah Blume as well as a conversation between poets Mary Pacifico Curtis and Tiffany Troy. A new giveaway for a copy of The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays by Maddie Norris, as well as our great big news roundup for the month of January. <p>If you haven't received yours or want to check it out you can grab a copy <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNTUyNSwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/">from the archive here</a></p><p>To subscribe for free, visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-13504066077146004502023-12-31T21:02:00.000-08:002023-12-31T21:02:32.905-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter January<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.pexels.com/photos/694740/pexels-photo-694740.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1260&h=750&dpr=2" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" height="203" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/694740/pexels-photo-694740.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1260&h=750&dpr=2" width="338" /></a></div>The January Compulsive Reader Newsletter has now gone out and is on its way to inboxes everywhere. This month's issue includes 14 new reviews including One River by Steve Armstrong, the new translation of The Iliad by Emily Wilson, Thieves by Valerie Werder, and The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia. We also have a new giveaway for a copy of <i>The China Shelf</i> by Jennifer Maiden, the usual literary news roundup and an exclusive interview with Valerie Werder at the podcast here: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compulsivereader/episodes/Valerie-Werder-on-Thieves-e2cqfr0">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compulsivereader/episodes/Valerie-Werder-on-Thieves-e2cqfr0</a><p></p><p>If you can't wait or somehow aren't getting it you can grab a copy in the <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNTQ1NCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/">archive here</a>.</p><p>To sign up visit <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a></p><p><br /></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-53827450239017463792023-11-30T19:18:00.000-08:002023-11-30T19:18:33.508-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter Dec<a href="https://pixabay.com/get/gc7de6faceb33cd2d66a36a5f1356f3005c5baba07b6f8dcedc9ae2c40222029268dab5d2f3205ca839c484603389a40e_340.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="500" height="235" src="https://pixabay.com/get/gc7de6faceb33cd2d66a36a5f1356f3005c5baba07b6f8dcedc9ae2c40222029268dab5d2f3205ca839c484603389a40e_340.jpg" width="346" /></a>The December Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out. As always the issue is chock-full of new book reviews and interviews including The Lady in The Bottle by Rozanna Lilley, Aboard the Time Line by Bastian Gregory, The Unreal City by Mike Lala, See What I Mean by Charles Rammelkamp, A Brilliant Life by Rachelle Unreich, and lots more as well as 2 new book giveaways, interviews and much more. To read it online visit: <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNTM4MCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/">Compulsive Reader Newsletter archive</a>. To sign up visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a><p></p><div>Happy reading! </div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-21992167266318887122023-11-10T20:49:00.004-08:002023-11-10T20:52:21.353-08:00New York Surrealism: On Alice Notley's How to Really Get an Apartment<p><span face="var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro)" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro)" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://granarybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1251.jpg?auto=webp&v=1592937190" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="516" height="250" src="https://granarybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1251.jpg?auto=webp&v=1592937190" width="161" /></a></span></div><span face="var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro)" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is my third ModPo essay this year. Unfortunately I cannot find the source poem online to link to and I don't want to reproduce here in case of copyright issues so I'll just say that the source poem is from the book <i>At Night the States, </i>published 1987 by Yellow Press, Chicago and is well worth checking out if you can. The book is available on Scribd </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/652772575/alice-notley-at-night-the-states-1">https://www.scribd.com/document/652772575/alice-notley-at-night-the-states-1</a> so if you have a subscription as I do, you can view it on page 49 at the link above. And just for fun, you can read the much longer title poem of the book here if you're wanting more Alice or can't get to the book on Scribd: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50834/at-night-the-states">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50834/at-night-the-states</a><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">**********</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Alice Notley’s “How to Really Get an Apartment” is, in many ways a classic New York School poem. It has all the hallmarks. The setting of course which is probably the most defining feature given the name - the apartment with its buzzer, the landlord, even the sense of the importance of having secured a rental property - its preciousness in the city. There are the cultural references - the name dropping of Jack Kerouac and the republican salt - one assumes that the line in quotation marks is a slogan in use at the time, and the sequencing from passing by an apartment to securing it - all happening in the present tense and progressing in a seemingly orderly way from one step to the next with multiple uses of the ampersand to indicate the next step forward in a way designed to be intentionally conversational and visual. There is also the abbreviation of apartment to apt and the four em dashes that create a visual sense of motion in the work. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">The conversational quality here is one that mirrors the breathlessness and easy quality of a discussion you might have with someone over a drink - the intimacy that begins with starting the work with ellipses and a reference “the same building”, as if we had already been talking about the building, and takes on the cadence of a narrative that melds present tense with reminiscence and digression, as if this were an anecdote told to the reader as addressee. This is partly indicated by the title which is a kind of recipe or even a hook - read this and you’ll find out something you need to know, which is humorous because it’s not a standard logic and shaking salt at a landlord and calling it wine will not get you a coveted apartment in New York City. Besides, it negates itself at the end in the classic New York School way of calling into question the overall tenet of the poem. </span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">The surrealism here is one that Notley is famous for - her use of dream sequencing. In this instance that dream logic is in play where each image gives rise to the next one - and the relationship does not have to be the kind we are used to in daily life or “plain time”. Instead we have building to Kerouac to buzzer to salt to wine to access. It’s a progression that works perfectly from a grammatical and linear point of view but has a subverted semantics where salt and wine can be synonymous, and where the desire to really obtain an apartment is a desire for what is already there. The symbolism here is one that has a sonic quality - using free association of sound, including subtle alliteration and repetitions such as “girl” with the repetitions of “get”, the multiple instances of salt, the alliteration of “w” as the poem progresses through the latter part of the poem - “whenever”, “walks”, “Would”, “wine” and the multiple variations on “you” and “your”. All of these sounds combine to create a gentle motion forward that mimic the progression of walking, forming a small but perfectly formed New York poem. </span></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-34031066081559849072023-11-02T15:57:00.007-07:002023-11-10T20:51:30.417-08:00Compulsive reader Newsletter November<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://api.openverse.engineering/v1/images/6b2959cb-201f-4ce7-8fab-1c10b6812f6e/thumb/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="600" height="158" src="https://api.openverse.engineering/v1/images/6b2959cb-201f-4ce7-8fab-1c10b6812f6e/thumb/" width="195" /></a></div>Happy November! The latest Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out. If you missed it you can grab a copy in the <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNTMyMiwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/">Compulsive Reader archive</a>. This month's issue features fantastic new reviews of authors like Jared Harel, Robbie Couch, Shoshanna Rockman, LJ Sysko and many more plus interviews with incredible multi-talented creatives like Kathleen Rooney, Samuel Lucas Allen, and Eugen Bacon. If you're a subscriber it will come right to your inbox. If you'd like to subscribe for free, visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a> and just pop your email address in the upper right hand corner. <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Books" by shutterhacks is licensed under CC BY 2.0.</span></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-241237147810368312023-10-19T17:58:00.001-07:002023-10-19T17:58:01.634-07:00Darkinfested: sensate and visceral (on "Subliminal" by Lorine Niedecker)<p>This is my second <a href="https://www.coursera.org/">ModPo</a> 2023 essay on Lorine Niedecker's "Subliminal". I've been on quite the Niedecker kick lately and coming across this sequence, which I hadn't read before, has increased the kick. The bit below is all I wrote the message on but I recommend the full sequence which cannot be found online (I won't paste from my book which I don't think is legal), but the book with the full sequence is <i>Harpsichord & Salt Fish</i> which I now have but which you could very likely get from your local library if you want to read it in full (highly recommended). The essay specifically asked us to explore how this poem engages with the <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69409/a-retrospect-and-a-few-donts">principles of Imagism</a>. </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p></blockquote><p>“Subliminal” by Lorine Niedecker is a five-poem sequence, but for the purpose of this essay I will only be close-reading the first section. In classic Niedecker style, the poem is condensed and spare, its meaning arising as much from the structure and spaces in the work as from the semantics. The short lines of each of the four couplets begin with two or three words indented as the first part of the couplet, describing what is mostly sensate and visceral - embodied in alliterative and sometimes sibilant sounds that evoke an immediate response in the reader. The second lines of the poem are more descriptive and slightly longer - an attempt perhaps at qualifying the sensation of the first line. For example, a reader might approach the first couplet with the question “what is Sleep’s dream” and the answer ‘a nerve-flash in the blood”. The poems structure with those even indents create a visual impression of a double helix twist - perhaps hinting that there is something inherited here - that tall, torment of the mother, the repeated use of the word “nerve”. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWsJ1r3N3fm8DyswZJV03ZiMnGewY38U45nav2Z803a1_TrTFpIxh4y4CyuyHrYC-196uqUoYWmwY2Q6bIa0eqtacqNbV7hTaFx-BnonzGKFhz7dYl3brqF-IlF4gcQKNzYNSHtn1O1Zu2c5_XkWjhkSLUWsJGDAj-f0DKn00AZYV-uNkR7kb2aX2ewKs" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1344" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWsJ1r3N3fm8DyswZJV03ZiMnGewY38U45nav2Z803a1_TrTFpIxh4y4CyuyHrYC-196uqUoYWmwY2Q6bIa0eqtacqNbV7hTaFx-BnonzGKFhz7dYl3brqF-IlF4gcQKNzYNSHtn1O1Zu2c5_XkWjhkSLUWsJGDAj-f0DKn00AZYV-uNkR7kb2aX2ewKs=w421-h346" width="421" /></a></div>There are many elements of this extract that align with imagism. All of the sonic and structural elements of the poem described above do seem to suggest something other than a "direct treatment of “thing,” one of Imagism’s key tenants, however it is also fair to say that the poem may well be the direct treatment of a dream, rendering the elements of the dream (rather than the mother, or the sensations themselves) in a direct way. It is also possible to define the object as the mother, the most concrete image in the poem, rendered with a crispness as ‘tall, tormented’ both fairly straightforward words and an absence of metaphors, as is often the case with Niedecker. I do think that would be a simplistic reading of the poem though, as there is much that could be taken as symbolic. While the poem feels internally complete and not referential and the words are, in the main, not decorative, there is that final word, ‘darkinfested’ - which comes right at the end of the extract as a portmanteau (two words combined) which wouldn’t appear in common speech that way. Linking the deep interiority of a dream with all that sensation, and then using that final, powerful portmanteau to end the extract, gives the poem a symbolic and even surrealistic quality which hints in a very non Imagistic way, at the unconscious, and the traumas we might carry, and less about the dream itself, or even the mother who appears here as an ominous presence. There’s a certain dynamism here that is brought in with the combination of these sensual images - the nerve-flash and cold sensation and the structure of the helix which suggests inheritance, along with the seductive, sibilant musicality of the sound. While it is true that Imagism seeks new rhythms, there is, in this condensation, much in the way of symbolic and intense power not in keeping with the fixed object of an Imagistic approach but rather much more open, and subject to multiple interpretations, readings and ways of experiencing. <p></p><p><br /></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-65121140189550026422023-09-30T19:54:00.004-07:002023-09-30T19:54:28.362-07:00ModPo 23: another Loneliness<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d3njjcbhbojbot.cloudfront.net/api/utilities/v1/imageproxy/https://coursera-course-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/f3/170840667111e79545654af01d8cf8/ModPo-Brand-Image-2_200.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&w=256&h=32" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="64" data-original-width="256" height="64" src="https://d3njjcbhbojbot.cloudfront.net/api/utilities/v1/imageproxy/https://coursera-course-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/f3/170840667111e79545654af01d8cf8/ModPo-Brand-Image-2_200.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&w=256&h=32" width="256" /></a></div>It has been a little while since I've posted a gushing recommendation for the fabulous <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo" target="_blank">Modern and Contemporary American Poetry</a> annual course (more like a symposium cause we keep coming back) affectionately known as ModPo and I've been dipping in for a few years but this year I'm doing the whole thing - main course, all poems, all essays - full in. It's about my tenth time (I've been doing this course since it started 12 years ago) but a) I'm still finding new things - or as I said in the discussion forum when I phoned in, I've changed, the world has changed, and I bring my new perspective to the same poems and b) there is <i>a lot</i> of new material - some brought into the main course and some crowd sourced in the community section. It's as wonderful as ever and if you haven't signed up you can still just jump right into the river and you don't have to do anything at all, or you can read one poem, or you can do full immersion or any variation of that. But know that whatever you decide you will be welcomed and encouraged and will gain something from it - from the reading, for your writing practice, and for your sense of poetry and art and life. In the past I've posted up my 4 essays as a way of keeping track and maybe helping others who might be interested in these pieces and I'm going to do that this year, starting with the first essay (just finished the second but I'll leave it a few weeks till I post here and might edit a bit based on feedback first) which is just 500 words on a poem by Emily Dickinson:<div><br /><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;">T</span>here is another Loneliness—
That many die without
Not want or friend occasions it
Or circumstances or Lot</span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">But nature sometimes, sometimes thought
And who so it befall
Is richer than could be divulged
By mortal numeral—</span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">My essay, titled "Loneliness as Superpower" follows:</span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: var(--cds-font-family-source-sans-pro); font-size: var(--cds-font-size-body1); line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p><p data-text-variant="body1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--cds-line-height-body1); margin-bottom: var(--cds-spacing-200); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); white-space: pre-wrap;">Emily Dickinson’s“There is another Loneliness” begins, as many Dickinson poems do, as if she were responding to being called lonely or to a conversation where the word “loneliness” had been used in some conventional way, that is, a lack of social interaction (“want or friend” or maybe ‘want of friend’). The use of the word “another” seems to reference that implied context. The Loneliness (with an upper case L) that Dickinson is talking about here is not negative, but rather, a lifesaver (“many die without”). It is something powerful, and rich, and not impacted by “circumstances or Lot” but rather, is innate, as “nature” which she seems to be using here as something inherent - as opposed to nurture rather than the external environment. As so many of Dickinson’s poems are meta poetic, it’s not a stretch to think that she could be talking here of the poetic muse or a singular interiority that has the look of loneliness but is actually a superpower (“Loneliness”), rich and in a way immortal (“richer than could be divulged/By mortal numeral).
The structure of the work is the classic two stanza, quatrain form though the two dashes - one in the first line and one at the very end form set of prongs are visually striking while also making creating a very subtle circularity as those dashes, both open, seem to connect the thoughts between the first line with its alternate Loneliness and the end with its mortal numeral as if in some way those two lines were in opposition to one another. One might stretch the concept of a mortal numeral to a kind of spreadsheet or accounting where life is measured by productivity rather than introspection and creativity. These opposing forces continue to shine a positive light on the other Loneliness.
Rhythmically, this poem uses the standard iambic pentameter with an ABAB rhyme scheme, though naturally the rhymes are slanted so Loneliness and it are the matches along with without and Lot, thought and divulged, and befall and numeral. At first glance these words don’t seem to rhyme at all, but when reading the poem aloud, the regular meter and the placement of the words does create a rhyme pattern that seems even to the ear. There is very little alliteration in this poem, but there are interesting repetitions, such as the double ‘sometimes’ in the second stanza, and the way that Loneliness and Lot are both capitalised. In the first stanzas the words “There” and “That” in the first stanza and “But” and “By” in the second provide extra emphasis and help keep the sonics regular and contained -as a sort of constraint of form. This creates a lovely structural tension that conveys the power of a deep solitude that might look like loneliness, but is actually the creative imagination. </span></p></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-67495262548167770032023-09-30T19:36:00.001-07:002023-09-30T19:36:06.636-07:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter October<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/3361/3502143020_6d149d2194_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="176" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/3361/3502143020_6d149d2194_b.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>The October Compulsive Reader Newsletter is now on its way to readers everywhere. 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This month's edition features the full July literary news round-up including, among others, the Society of Authors, the Trillion, the Forward Prize for Poetry and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. We have our big review round up including Katie Farris, Ali Whitelock, Grace Lee and many more, and of course our very popular book giveaways - 2 this month. If you haven't gotten your copy yet, it's on the way or you can get one directly from the <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNTE0MCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/">Compulsive Reader Newsletter archive</a>. To sign up to the monthly newsletter visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a>. <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";">"</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51035743246@N01/1651870" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(197,43,155,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">A Rainbow Of Books</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";">" by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51035743246@N01" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(197,43,155,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">Dawn Endico</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";"> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(197,43,155,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";">.</span></span></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-59347077917974618232023-06-30T18:37:00.007-07:002023-06-30T18:44:42.345-07:00CR Newsletter July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkpAQtMHYr5qHYk204t-9p3fMyAeq0hcTgmargFUzDEXwnNHjHr59vG_NFCXLrk_NZE4298GN2lCDlHY728S8RC4Bx9mk45vcwuNvSERmwvSCGtOoyiC0mHczzJ8D0qdvKhmE9Aun4N5_IckdZqPXBy8S1f5owQr21t0qwpR3DLNHVAYaVdu_ntG2TBo/s4032/IMG_3768.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkpAQtMHYr5qHYk204t-9p3fMyAeq0hcTgmargFUzDEXwnNHjHr59vG_NFCXLrk_NZE4298GN2lCDlHY728S8RC4Bx9mk45vcwuNvSERmwvSCGtOoyiC0mHczzJ8D0qdvKhmE9Aun4N5_IckdZqPXBy8S1f5owQr21t0qwpR3DLNHVAYaVdu_ntG2TBo/w255-h191/IMG_3768.HEIC" width="255" /></a></div>The July Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out. This month's issue has a terrific suite of new reviews including Women's Prize award winner <i>Demon Copperhead</i> by Barbara Kingsolver, <i>A Dangerous Daughter</i> by Dina Davis, and <i>The Badass Brontës </i>by Jane Satterfield, interviews with Rachel Rueckert, Adam Sass, and on our <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compulsivereader/episodes/Alisa-Bryce-on-Grounded-e260dsa/a-aa1g72t" target="_blank">podcast</a> Alisa Bryce talking about her latest book <i>Grounded</i>. Of course there are giveaways, and the big roundup of June's literary news. If you can't wait or want a preview before subscribing you can check it out in the public archive here: <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNTA0MywidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/" style="text-align: center;">Compulsive Reader July Newsletter</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To subscribe visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a></div></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-16949509769833306752023-06-01T03:04:00.006-07:002023-06-01T03:04:54.247-07:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter June<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/7414/10023167785_864597a397_b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="197" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7414/10023167785_864597a397_b.jpg" width="296" /></a></div>The June Compulsive Reader Newsletter is now on its way to inboxes everywhere - our readers are all over the world! This month's newsletter features 3 book giveaways including our current front page giveaway for a copy of Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace by Tracey Buchanan as well as the usual big literary news round up (so many awards!) and a dozen new reviews including the wonderful <i>T </i>by Alan Fyfe which has been shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's award for an Emerging Writer. I also spoke to Alan this month at the podcast about <i>T </i>and also his upcoming poetry book. You can find all that and more in our monthly newsletter, and if you can't want for it to arrive (it tends to trickle in slowly over a few days), you can <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDk4OSwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiJ7c3AtYnJvd3Nlci11cmx9In0/">view it in your browser</a>. If you aren't a subscriber, visit <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a> to subscribe for free. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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This month's issue features 11 fresh reviews, 3 interviews (not counting our Compulsive Reader Talks interview with the wonderful <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compulsivereader/episodes/Ashley-Kalagian-Blunt-on-Dark-Mode-e21nfs4" target="_blank">Ashley Kalagian Blunt</a>, two new giveaways of some very exciting pre-release books, and a full round-up of literary news (including a bit of news about my own upcoming festivals - both in one weekend - lucky me). If you haven't received it yet, you can <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDkyNSwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">view it in your browser</a> or to sign up for free (of course), just visit <a href="http://Compulsivereader.com">Compulsivereader.com</a> and enter your email address in the upper right hand corner. Couldn't be easier! <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-8041419590052402342023-03-31T20:11:00.007-07:002023-03-31T20:11:43.611-07:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter April is out!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/10/13444741_ae809af345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="499" height="190" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/10/13444741_ae809af345.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br />This month's Compulsive Reader Newsletter has now gone out and is on its way to inboxes. For April we've got our usual big news round-up as well as reviews of new books by the likes of Ruth Latta, Cristina Rivera Garza, Douglas Bauer, Ian McEwan, and Haji Jaber, along with two new book giveaways, a great new podcast episode featuring a genial conversation between Oisín Breen and Simon Whitby Brown, and lots more. You can <a href="http://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDg1OCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">view it in your browser</a> now or wait for it to arrive. If you aren't already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free (and view all of our reviews) at: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a>. Happy reading! <p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);">"</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/45553145@N00/13444741" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">Poetry Books</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);">" by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/45553145@N00" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">chillihead</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);"> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);">.</span></span></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-20783816864788592652023-03-02T02:08:00.006-08:002023-03-02T02:22:26.649-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter March<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpLs_g1qHSZQpztflLrFy9Xx8GQWUxwszwNthWDFdBHtcg1owdhNTTWbhFpAy_hYfthUcqWvNNFWeKjG0DfuTETrW4nRjWzHS3Hto7IPi0ReuUvhaUNk1O72B2at4VYYA4e13a1Gifluy9FgaqDXtpfyXdFZKN8W2qgk1O09SXgOSt9RNsfo-5Uaw/s150/43536455932_9d926e743d_q.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpLs_g1qHSZQpztflLrFy9Xx8GQWUxwszwNthWDFdBHtcg1owdhNTTWbhFpAy_hYfthUcqWvNNFWeKjG0DfuTETrW4nRjWzHS3Hto7IPi0ReuUvhaUNk1O72B2at4VYYA4e13a1Gifluy9FgaqDXtpfyXdFZKN8W2qgk1O09SXgOSt9RNsfo-5Uaw/w184-h166/43536455932_9d926e743d_q.jpg" width="184" /></a>The March Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out. We've got more reviews than ever before this month (and 3 giveaways!) including Smog Mother by John Wall Barger, Oh My Rapture by Gemma White, Dug-Up Gun Museum by Matt Donovan, Pipette by Kim Chinquee and many more! Plus our big literary news roundup for the previous month, a new interview at the podcast with Traumata's Meera Atkinson, and several interviews on site as well. The newsletter is on its way now, but if you haven't gotten it, or can't wait, you can grab a copy <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDgwNSwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">in the archive</a>. If you aren't a subscriber you can sign up at <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">compulsivereader.com</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image: Stift Broumov (17. Jhdt.) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">by Herbert Frank </span></div></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-7283378081839376142023-02-01T01:48:00.004-08:002023-02-01T01:48:43.440-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter Feb<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWobN7vap9ve-iwQDenvGsHjendA5q9n2c2lzqMo4xeVfG1ewG4XpFME0movE3ttnaAhU&usqp=CAU" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWobN7vap9ve-iwQDenvGsHjendA5q9n2c2lzqMo4xeVfG1ewG4XpFME0movE3ttnaAhU&usqp=CAU" width="275" /></a></div>The February Compulsive Reader newsletter is now out, on its way to your inbox. This month's edition features reviews of new books by authors like Caroline Goodwin, Rachel Harper, Shilo Niziolek, Lucy Dougan, Linda Adair, Jessica Bell, and many more. We also have an extensive literary news roundup for the month of January and two new giveaways. If you want a preview or to read it now, you can <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDcyNCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">View it in your browser</a>. To sign up and join our worldwide community of people who love books, just visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a><p></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-13068126191823907482022-12-31T17:33:00.004-08:002022-12-31T17:34:42.749-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter - January<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_PM1-PNPISv9EaJ4rpLzXYW5ghmg4MQJZDcw0RLIzmfwg13q-vQZGBka6UrO8TmeyvqSkOCmbt5a91TsT1R7pUX1c7CPfalOud3lU-0SESqo2SebA17rnzHCmLX_JzzjFLSeASIC2d9VwdyNiIqj10J4A1gLEkpe7dzbnFGrToyzzndVAn5JZohp/s1032/Bobish%20cover.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="704" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_PM1-PNPISv9EaJ4rpLzXYW5ghmg4MQJZDcw0RLIzmfwg13q-vQZGBka6UrO8TmeyvqSkOCmbt5a91TsT1R7pUX1c7CPfalOud3lU-0SESqo2SebA17rnzHCmLX_JzzjFLSeASIC2d9VwdyNiIqj10J4A1gLEkpe7dzbnFGrToyzzndVAn5JZohp/w163-h240/Bobish%20cover.png" width="163" /></a></div>Happy new year readers! The Compulsive Reader newsletter for January has now gone out. I have some news that I'm quite excited about - my new book <i>Bobish</i> is officially available. <i>Bobish </i>is a verse memoir of my great-grandmother Rebecca Lieberman, who migrated from the Shtetls of Eastern Europe to the US in 1907. The book is getting some wonderful reviews including, most recently, this one from <a href="https://geoffnelder.com/bobish-by-magdalena-ball/">Geoff Nelder</a>: "Such a wonderful prosody of verse conveying tragedy in a beautiful way. Magdalena is such an expert at the juxtaposition of sadness with hope, terror with exquisiteness." If you order a copy, please let me know and I'll send you a free, custom autographed bookplate posted anywhere in the world (if it's for a gift - just let me know who for and any special instructions) - limited offer until my bookplates run out! You can find out more about Bobish at <a href="https://magdalenaball.com/?page_id=932 ">https://magdalenaball.com/?page_id=932 </a> <div><br /></div><div>This month 's new reviews and interviews include the powerful anthology <i>Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing from Ukraine</i> edited by Kateryna Kazimirova and Daryna Anastasieva (and check out my new audio/video interview with Kateryna here: <a href="https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Kateryna-Kazimirova-on-Voices-of-Freedom-Contemporary-Writing-From-Ukraine-e1shs92">https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Kateryna-Kazimirova-on-Voices-of-Freedom-Contemporary-Writing-From-Ukraine-e1shs92</a>), Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland by Katy Didden, Anamnesis By Denise O’Hagan and lots more. <div><br /></div><div>You should receive yours soon but if you can't wait or you want to see what all the fuss is about, you can view a copy in the <a href="http://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDYyNywidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">archive here</a>.<div><div><br /></div><div>To sign up or read all of our reviews, and check out my new audio/video interview with the amazing Hazel Smith, visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a></div></div></div></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-70320501036340551132022-12-01T12:54:00.006-08:002022-12-01T12:55:10.954-08:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter December<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Austria_-_Admont_Abbey_Library_-_1407.jpg/1920px-Austria_-_Admont_Abbey_Library_-_1407.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Austria_-_Admont_Abbey_Library_-_1407.jpg/1920px-Austria_-_Admont_Abbey_Library_-_1407.jpg" width="321" /></a></div>The Compulsive Reader newsletter for December has now gone out. This month features a bumper crop of new reviews and interviews including the likes of Lee Kofman, A Cottonmouth with a Laptop: A review of Stay Gone Days by Steve Yarbrough, Sam Morley, Nandita Dinesh, Joyce Chopra, Adam Sass, Tina Cane, Melanie McCabe, Julia Brewer Daily, PS Cottier and Sandra Renew and many more. We also have two new book giveaways including right now, <i>Janes Jam</i> by Jane Enright. <p></p><p>Our extensive news roundup of all of November's literary news includes awards like the Scotiabank Giller, the Prix Goncourt, the Patrick White and the always popular Bookseller Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. You should receive yours soon but if you can't wait or you want to see what all the fuss is about, you can view a copy in the archive here: <a href="https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MjQ1NjQ">https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MjQ1NjQ</a></p><p>To sign up or read all of our reviews, and check out my new audio/video interview with the amazing Hazel Smith, visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Book image by © Jorge Royan / <a class="external free" href="http://www.royan.com.ar" rel="nofollow">http://www.royan.com.ar</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15881905">Link</a></span></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-13712357740777647842022-11-19T01:27:00.003-08:002022-11-19T01:27:28.434-08:00Poetry gifts on a bargain budget<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0542/4573/products/vagabondage_cover_470x.jpg?v=1409299646" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="470" height="218" src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0542/4573/products/vagabondage_cover_470x.jpg?v=1409299646" width="145" /></a></div></div>I'm not one to encourage rampant consumerism. There are plenty of others doing that this time of year, but it has just been brought to my attention that the <a href="https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/2022-sale?&utm_campaign=campaign%3A%202022%20Big%20Holiday%20Book%20Sale%20(6375cf52c60ca2001ccb385a)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend&omnisendContactID=6228363618b309002078e17a&fbclid=IwAR0L8CSPBsb_UBlp17iWF5AuE5qDZZW_VnMxvliZ8NfG6KLzaVLx4RJh_gE" target="_blank">University of Western Australia Press (UWAP</a>) is having a massive sale on poetry titles. <div><br /></div><div>By massive sale I mean poetry that normally sells for an already reasonable $23 is on sale for $5! These are no bargain basement titles. I'm talking some of my very favourite poetry books of all time, like Judy Johnson's <i>Dark Convicts, </i>Beth Spencer's Vagabondage, Thuy On's <i>Turbulence, </i>Emily Ballou's <i>The Darwin Poems, </i>Jill Jones, Quinn Eades, David Stavinger, Tricia Dearborn, holy moly - there's so much goodness here - how to choose - who gets what? <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Maggie-Ball-cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="240" height="213" src="https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Maggie-Ball-cover.jpg" width="161" /></a></div></div><div>If you haven't got enough books by the time you're finished with UWAP, go visit Flying Island's poetry shop where you can pick up titles for $10 a pop: <a href="https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/shop/">https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/shop/</a>, including my own <i>High Wire Step. </i></div><div><br /></div><div>Why should you give poetry for gifts this holiday? For one thing it's very hot right now - everyone wants poetry. I don't know how this happened but it's true and you can't go wrong with a good poetry book. For another, it's not something you can just read and be done with like a fast-paced adventure novel. Good poetry has you coming back again and again, so you're giving someone a gift that they can enjoy repeatedly - it's a lot of concentrated beauty. And right now, it's an unbelievable bargain. Holiday gift giving sorted. </div><div><p></p></div></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-16197576440748411182022-10-31T14:09:00.002-07:002022-10-31T14:09:19.060-07:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter November<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/7/10215167_723ee463fe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="186" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7/10215167_723ee463fe.jpg" width="247" /></a></div>Happy November Readers! The latest Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out and should be making its way to an in-box near you. This month we have a bumper crop of reviews and interviews (with a bit of a poetry slant - that's the way my in-box is working at the moment). There's the fabulous Ecliptical by Hazel Smith (and look out for an exclusive interview on <a href="https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader">Compulsive Reader Talks</a> shortly), Fickle Pendulum by Paul Scully, The Lantern Room by Chloe Honum, Dr Norman Swan's latest book So You Want to Live Younger Longer, and many others. We also have a very big and thorough literary news roundup, two great new giveaways. On that note, please enter these comps - it's just an email - no tagging or social media - just so I have your address handy. We have ~10,000 subscribers and I don't get so many entries - the same people keep winning which is great for them but I'd love to share the joy. If you aren't a subscriber please visit <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com" target="_blank">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a> and sign up (upper right hand side). It's free and I only send one newsletter a month. 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This month has new reviews for such books as Walking the Labyrinth by Pamela Wax, The Pit by Tara Borin, The Circle That Fits by Kevin Lichty, and many others as well as an interview with The Fun Master's Jeff Seitzer. We also have a giveaway for the newly released <i>Moonstone Hero</i> by David Sklar, a terrific roundup of literary news including shortlists for the Scotiabank Giller, the Booker Prize, and the NSW Literary Awards to name just a few. If you can't wait for it to arrive you can check it out in the: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDQyNywidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">Compulsive Reader Newsletter Archive</a> and if you'd like to subscribe (free of course) visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a><p></p>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-74688368826373017932022-08-31T13:39:00.003-07:002022-08-31T13:39:17.600-07:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter September<div class="separator"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/4059/4421317209_d3b87b9490_b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="210" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4059/4421317209_d3b87b9490_b.jpg" width="316" /></a></div>The latest issue of Compulsive Reader is now out and on its way to subscribers. This issue has new reviews from such authors as Maya Sonenberg, Diane LeBlanc, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Sara Kidd and Sean Singer, with a range of genres from speculative fiction, poetry and cookbooks. We also have new interviews with Ellen Barker, <a href="https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Sara-Kidd-on-The-Vegan-Cake-Bible-e1mcf4n" target="_blank">Sara Kidd</a> and <a href="https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Bastian-Fox-Phelan-on-How-to-Be-Between-e1m06ja/a-a8b3msf" target="_blank">Bastian Fox Phelan</a>. The newsletter has three new giveaways and I can tell you that we don't get a tremendous amount of entries so a lot of people keep winning (I am happy to furnish their libraries!), so get your entries in because odds are high! If you can't wait for it to arrive or prefer to read online or want to sample, you can click here to: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDM4OCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">view it in your browser</a>. If you're not a subscriber, it's free, we only email once a month and you are welcome to join our lovely community of book lovers. Visit: <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a> and sign up on the right hand side of the site. <div><br /><div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">"</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/22178197@N00/4421317209" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(197 43 155 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">Book</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">" by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/22178197@N00" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(197 43 155 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">Kamil Porembiński</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(197 43 155 / var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46); color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div></div></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5970569328265348295.post-32149568376782884342022-08-02T01:26:00.009-07:002022-08-02T01:30:16.988-07:00Compulsive Reader Newsletter August<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/3361/3502143020_6d149d2194_b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/3361/3502143020_6d149d2194_b.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">The Compulsive Reader newsletter for August is now flying to your inbox. This month includes a big news roundup, as well as reviews of books like Our Laundry, Our Town by Alvin Eng, A Longing for Impossible Things by David Borofka, and How to Be Between by Bastian Fox Phelan to name a few. We also have a new (as of today!) interview with Bastian on <span><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Bastian-Fox-Phelan-on-How-to-Be-Between-e1m06ja">Compulsive Reader Talks</a>.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span> There are also written interviews with Jane Enright and Maya Sonenberg. We've got 3 new book giveaways: Midstream by Lynn Sloan, Winter's Reckoning by Adele Holmes, and Self/less by AViVA. If you can't wait for your copy to arrive, you can <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/eyJpZCI6MCwicmVwb3J0IjoyNDMzNCwidmlldyI6InRyYWNrZXIiLCJ1cmwiOiIlN0JzcC1icm93c2VyLXVybCU3RCJ9/">view it in your browser</a>. </p><p style="text-align: left;">To subscribe, visit <a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a>. 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This month's newsletter features a bumper crop of global literary news including such things as the Nebula awards, the German Nonfiction Book prize, the TS Eliot Four Quarters prize, the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year, and many more. I know literary prizes aren't the be all and end all, but they do shine a torch light on some excellent books and are a good place to start if you're looking for a new read (for example, my dad is a sci fi fan and I always check out the Nebulas and Hugos to choose him new books for his birthday and Father's Day - I haven't had a dud yet). I'm always amazed by just how many great books continue to come out each year. Given all the chaos that is happening in the world at the moment, knowing how powerful and relevant and beautiful (mostly simultaneously) the literary art world continues to be is very heartening. Another source of great new books is Compulsive Reader! This month's newsletter has a bunch of terrific books reviewed including Patrick White winner Adam Aitken's latest poetry book <i>Revenants</i>, <i>Sapphic Touch </i>edited by Suman Lahiry and Heidi Chappelow, April at the Ruins by Lawrence Raab and lots more plus interviews and of course two new wonderful book giveaways! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you haven't gotten. your copy, firstly, make sure we're whitelisted, and secondly, you can grab one straightaway here in the archive: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MjQyODg">http://www.compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MjQyODg</a></span></p><div style="text-align: left;">If you haven't signed up for our newsletter you can check it out in the archive and if you like what you see and want in on the giveaways, just visit <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.compulsivereader.com">http://www.compulsivereader.com</a>. Happy reading! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);">"</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/96976831@N00/10215167" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">My Books</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);">" by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/96976831@N00" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">Jennerally</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);"> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/2.0/jp/?ref=openverse" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 39, 46);">.</span></span></div>Magdalena Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182314078304734996noreply@blogger.com0