Rhyming verse might have potential.
THE LONGEST WINTER
Before we see the buds of Spring
We must face the longest Winter,
friend, you and me.
As we age so too do we become sage,
and everything is only a turn of the page.
Each new day a white canvas,
a sail unfurled as we embark on our journey,
a foreign land to canvass.
Life is the work [...]
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Wondering Aloud
Posted in CNY Literary Scene, art, lit blog, love on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Meet the authors of The Utican
Posted in CNY Literary Scene, Utica, Utica fame on June 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Jay Johnston, Angry Man (currently on hiatus until psychiatric/emotional injury heals)
Justin Scalzo a.k.a. “Rider”, Quill Master (Floridian and real-life 40 year old virgin)
Mr X, Proud Utican (the brains behind The Utican and a rudely conservative Italian)
Final word on Saunders’ In Persuasion Nation
Posted in CNY Literary Scene on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I just finished reading In Persuasion Nation and I just wanted to weigh in with some final thoughts on it. In my last post I expressed regret that Saunders, while skilled at tearing town our established ways of seeing, is able to offer almost no solutions to the current state of American myopia. Well, perhaps [...]
Updated Saunders Critique
Posted in CNY Literary Scene on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read the titular story to George Saunders’ In Persuasion Nation and, while it is not the best tale in the collection, it calls to mind some of the disturbing environmental implications to our product-driven culture. A scene which describes the torn corner of the wrapper of a Slap-of-Whack bar blowing across the desert, [...]
The CNY Literary Scene
Posted in CNY Literary Scene on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of upstate’s own, George Saunders, achieved national acclaim when his collection of short stories entitled In Persuasion Nation (2006) humorously skewered America’s self-destructive and consumer-driven ways. Saunders takes us inside the boxing ring of controversy that exists in the daily lives of ordinary Americans in this book and he forces us to look at [...]
