thunderfit: Wedding rings designed for endurance, capable of being worn during exercise. Typically given as anniversary gifts for active couples.

I never knew that Pearl Buck published poetry.
I must get hold of the copy of Biography Magazine you quoted.
The poem Essence was delightful, but for me it is the last line that may stick with me. “Without love there’s only fear”.

The secret is by using just enough detail to do the trick.
But how will you know when enough’s enough?
Since no rules exist, you can best get a feel for how much detail will do by reading the authors quoted in these chapters.
Sometimes a litany of details will be effective within their cumulative power; sometimes a single detail will suffice; other times, the very best method would be to weave the details into the description or the narratives as they come up, logically.
Another indicate consider in the use of concrete details is in choosing time-sensitive references.
In your attempt to make your subject stand out for readers, you might be tempted to use ephemeral details that may have gone out of favor in a few years from now, and future readers won’t obtain the point.

• I think Hopkins achieved this through the use of terms that may be interpreted in many ways.
• stories stay truly parallel rather than cross each other— never converge.
• fancier convent school), worshipped in the same parish church, and have never lost touch.

Thanks June, for pointing out to me the happy cadance and color of the poem.
My head is thick with Sydney Flu that will perhaps prompt the technical poem scrutinizers to look for a poet of this name.

I believe the passage where Sairey Gamp invites Betsy Prigg to her home for tea is among the funniest I’ve ever read, also it always makes me laugh out loud.
Some of my friends, who know me well, call me Sairey Gamp, and I sign my letters to them with a teapot!
No, I’m not a bit like Sairey, at the very least I hope not, and I don’t carry a rolled up umbrella, or have a pal by the name of Mrs. ‘Arris.
Did you know that in the U.K., an umbrella may also be referred to as a “gamp?” That’s fame and immortality for you personally!

Creative Nonfiction

I finally surely got to the Cyber Cafe, and am fighting an unfamiliar screen and the PC version of AOL, quite different from my dear old Macintosh.

The spacing between lines I arbitrarily did.
We’ve discussed informally the many techniques the poets use rhyme, rhythm, and the actual sounds of words.

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They add fresh ideas, ideas you may never have come up with on your own.
They offer different angles, views, perspectives, insights on the individual or the topic under study.
You’ll get names of other folks you might interview, people you may never have thought of or heard about while sitting back in the home in your study.
The interviewee may mention other authorities you should read for further information.

• John McPhee, for example, never uses it, saying a writer cannot get into another person’s head.
• To some extent it’s perceptible in his early work (examples abound, will clue you unless you see them yourself), but I think it became more conspicuous as he grew more involved in Anglo-Catholicism.
• Relationships wherein the mystery of falling in love and the joy of the romance became matters, in my own mind, to be examined, discussed, defined with regards to roles and responsibilities.
• Only a treasure trove of a wide variety of poets.
• He’d not allow himself to be petted by strangers.

say I have had a call from Dr. Allen, but, unfortunately, in the way of the world, among my children “saved” it for me on voice mail, and I simply found it today.
Here is a previously unpublished poem by Pearl Buck, as given in the June problem of Biography magazine…
A pal of mine just sent me the following poem and indicated I was absolve to share it.
I am very proud of her…so when to creative spark, she would be better qualified to speak to that, since I do not seem to have her talent for poetry.

picture of one’s husband’s ordeal that we were all deeply moved.
Thank you for sharing this personal – yet, alas, so universal – experience.
I’ve seen this happen night after night And dodged his flailing arms in fright, But knowing I’ve got to free him fast From the horrors of his wartime past.

Loved your selection from W which I read in GB.
Let’s continue steadily to dip into this great poet to see what good things we can come up with.
His preface to LOG is what we really need in this country today.