the brooklynbookworks blog

i did the composition of this book for Columbia late last year. it’s printed and on the market . . . what a lovely book it is!

Mountains Painted with Turmeric
Lil Bahadur Chettri; Translated and with an Introduction by Michael J. Hutt

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14356-1/
mountains-painted-with-turmeric

of the Journal for Manual and Manipulative Therapy . . .
check it out at www.jmmtonline.com

cold snow, nearly dark—

snow angels are forgiven

May joy & many good books come to all of you in 2008!

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
—Ronnie Shakes

“A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say ‘How to Build a Boat’ ”
—Stephen Wright

a soul missing is a dog with no eyes

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carrots never turn blue, they bleed ribbons

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seeing the truth is never still

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(Anne Landgraf, 2005)

You don’t let go one day & the next one it’s still gone; you get up in the morning & let it go all over again . . . Lucy Grealy

From a wonderful book called Autobiography of a Face . . .

It can be found in print at Amazon.

sarah and sahil

may you always be amused

as stars clothe your eyes

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white roses sway still

warm air in new york city

candles glow in pools

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mary ann and nick

what fun the four of us had!

wine at 5 a.m.