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Return (All Summer)
All summer a place apart,
Remembering light and stone,
Fences and windows
The way that I went –
Another country,
Now that you’re back.
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You can find previous bookmash poems here, including links to other people’s. The idea came from Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project.
Featured authors: Claire Kilroy, Dervla Murphy, Deirdre Madden, Naomi Klein, Robert Lloyd Praeger, James Baldwin, A. L. Kennedy.
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NIce !
Excellent!
Very nice indeed. It makes me wonder what the book underneath is, the one that wouldn’t have added a twist to the poem.
Emad, Jams: Thank you! Glad you liked it.
Mise: Thanks! Look away now if you don’t want the mystery spoiled: The book underneath Now that you’re back was Declan Hughes’s All the Dead Voices, which you might remember was used to begin my previous bookmash. Had I appended it to this one, it would have added a quite incongruous and sinister twist.
Your bookmash poems are always so poetic, Stan.
La Maison de Claudine
Cet été qui chantait,
Bonheur d’Occasion.
Vingt ans après,
Le silence de la mer,
Auteurs présentés:
Colette/Gabrielle Roy/Gabrielle Roy/Alexandre Dumas/ Vercors. (Pas de photo, hélas!)
Thank you, Claude, et merci pour ton propre bookmash-poème – c’est bien évocateur. La mer, c’est silencieuse sous la surface, mais sur la plage c’est assez forte!
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