Greg Kindall
@gregkindall.bsky.social
non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
Gerhard Richter, 1025 Farben (1974). In situ at the Louisiana in Humlebæk, Denmark.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gerhard Richter, 1025 Farben (1974). In situ at the Louisiana in Humlebæk, Denmark.
I read Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2015). Just for fun, a breezy introduction to the major meters, with a dozen or two examples of each showing its character and range of effects and uses.
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I read Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2015). Just for fun, a breezy introduction to the major meters, with a dozen or two examples of each showing its character and range of effects and uses.
#MelvilleMonday
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#MelvilleMonday
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
I read A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines (1968).
I do love this book.
I do love this book.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I read A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines (1968).
I do love this book.
I do love this book.
snack for a fall day
(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
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(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
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November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
snack for a fall day
(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
@theorchardkeeper.bsky.social
(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
@theorchardkeeper.bsky.social
I read Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, by Dorthe Nors (2015; 2017 translation from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra).
Did I devour a whole jar of salty licorice while reading this? That I did (Lakrids by Bülow #2).
Did I devour a whole jar of salty licorice while reading this? That I did (Lakrids by Bülow #2).
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I read Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, by Dorthe Nors (2015; 2017 translation from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra).
Did I devour a whole jar of salty licorice while reading this? That I did (Lakrids by Bülow #2).
Did I devour a whole jar of salty licorice while reading this? That I did (Lakrids by Bülow #2).
<sigh>
another project . . .
another project . . .
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
<sigh>
another project . . .
another project . . .
I read Beowulf: Dragonslayer, by Rosemary Sutcliff (1961). Just checking it out before I hand it off to a great-nephew, a bright boy.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I read Beowulf: Dragonslayer, by Rosemary Sutcliff (1961). Just checking it out before I hand it off to a great-nephew, a bright boy.
I read The Haidah Indians of Queen Charlotte's Islands, by James G. Swan (1874), a Smithsonian Institution paper. Swan's dream destination almost from his arrival in the Northwest, he begged the American Museum of Natural History for years and years to fund a study trip to the Queen Charlottes 1/2
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I read The Haidah Indians of Queen Charlotte's Islands, by James G. Swan (1874), a Smithsonian Institution paper. Swan's dream destination almost from his arrival in the Northwest, he begged the American Museum of Natural History for years and years to fund a study trip to the Queen Charlottes 1/2
I read Old Friend from Far Away: 150 Chinese Poems from the Great Dynasties, an anthology compiled and translated by C.H. Kwock & Vincent McHugh. This 1980 North
Point Press edition gathers several earlier publications, really just pamphlets, sold through City Lights Bookstore.
Point Press edition gathers several earlier publications, really just pamphlets, sold through City Lights Bookstore.
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I read Old Friend from Far Away: 150 Chinese Poems from the Great Dynasties, an anthology compiled and translated by C.H. Kwock & Vincent McHugh. This 1980 North
Point Press edition gathers several earlier publications, really just pamphlets, sold through City Lights Bookstore.
Point Press edition gathers several earlier publications, really just pamphlets, sold through City Lights Bookstore.
I intended yesterday to mow the lawn one last time but it started raining so I went to the bookstore and found some good used books to bring home.
Curious, the two 1970s books use the exact same typeface on the cover.
Curious, the two 1970s books use the exact same typeface on the cover.
October 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I intended yesterday to mow the lawn one last time but it started raining so I went to the bookstore and found some good used books to bring home.
Curious, the two 1970s books use the exact same typeface on the cover.
Curious, the two 1970s books use the exact same typeface on the cover.
I read An Imaginary Life, by David Malouf (1978), in which the poet Ovid undergoes a surprising metamorphosis of his own.
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I read An Imaginary Life, by David Malouf (1978), in which the poet Ovid undergoes a surprising metamorphosis of his own.
Poking around in my mom's things I found a packet of letters, 112 of them, from my great-grandmother to my grandfather, 1938-1945. She and my gr-grandfather had just moved from Seneca, Missouri, to Olive Branch in Illinois' Little Egypt region when the letters start,
1/2
1/2
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Poking around in my mom's things I found a packet of letters, 112 of them, from my great-grandmother to my grandfather, 1938-1945. She and my gr-grandfather had just moved from Seneca, Missouri, to Olive Branch in Illinois' Little Egypt region when the letters start,
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I read The Poems of François Villon, in poet Galway Kinnell's 1977 translation.
A scoundrel and a scapegrace, but a poet.
A scoundrel and a scapegrace, but a poet.
October 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I read The Poems of François Villon, in poet Galway Kinnell's 1977 translation.
A scoundrel and a scapegrace, but a poet.
A scoundrel and a scapegrace, but a poet.
I read Bucolics, by Maurice Manning (2007). A farmer addresses God ("Boss") on subjects high and low, in an Appalachian mode.
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I read Bucolics, by Maurice Manning (2007). A farmer addresses God ("Boss") on subjects high and low, in an Appalachian mode.
I read Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, by Raymond Carver (1983). The hunk on the cover looks like my brother did around that time.
October 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I read Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, by Raymond Carver (1983). The hunk on the cover looks like my brother did around that time.
oh lordy
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October 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
oh lordy
Celebrating over here in my little corner: Krasznahorkai in the late lamented Music & Literature (#2, Spring 2013).
October 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Celebrating over here in my little corner: Krasznahorkai in the late lamented Music & Literature (#2, Spring 2013).
I read Ways of Seeing, by John Berger and some others (1972).
Should've been called Berger's Way of Seeing.
Should've been called Berger's Way of Seeing.
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I read Ways of Seeing, by John Berger and some others (1972).
Should've been called Berger's Way of Seeing.
Should've been called Berger's Way of Seeing.
I read Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837).
The Library of America arranges the stories chronologically by first publication in various periodicals, but also offers an arrangement by the books in which they were first collected (see pg 1479), which is how I'm making my way through them.
The Library of America arranges the stories chronologically by first publication in various periodicals, but also offers an arrangement by the books in which they were first collected (see pg 1479), which is how I'm making my way through them.
October 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I read Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837).
The Library of America arranges the stories chronologically by first publication in various periodicals, but also offers an arrangement by the books in which they were first collected (see pg 1479), which is how I'm making my way through them.
The Library of America arranges the stories chronologically by first publication in various periodicals, but also offers an arrangement by the books in which they were first collected (see pg 1479), which is how I'm making my way through them.
I read Black Light, by the poet Galway Kinnell (1966, but extensively revised for this 1980 North Point Press edition).
Made me think at times of The Stranger, at times of The Sheltering Sky, with occasional wafts of Hafiz and Rumi.
Made me think at times of The Stranger, at times of The Sheltering Sky, with occasional wafts of Hafiz and Rumi.
October 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I read Black Light, by the poet Galway Kinnell (1966, but extensively revised for this 1980 North Point Press edition).
Made me think at times of The Stranger, at times of The Sheltering Sky, with occasional wafts of Hafiz and Rumi.
Made me think at times of The Stranger, at times of The Sheltering Sky, with occasional wafts of Hafiz and Rumi.
I read The King Must Die, by Mary Renault (1958), the first of two novels inspired by the legend of Theseus.
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I read The King Must Die, by Mary Renault (1958), the first of two novels inspired by the legend of Theseus.
I read Penitential Cries, by Susan Howe (New Directions, 2025). Two thirds of the book is her word collages (see attached example), the rest seems to have to do with getting old and hanging out at Yale's Sterling Library. Has a nice poem for her sister Fanny.
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I read Penitential Cries, by Susan Howe (New Directions, 2025). Two thirds of the book is her word collages (see attached example), the rest seems to have to do with getting old and hanging out at Yale's Sterling Library. Has a nice poem for her sister Fanny.
I read Autumn Journal, by Louis MacNeice (1939). Not a journal of just any autumn, it's the autumn of 1938 and much is afoot in the world.
September 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I read Autumn Journal, by Louis MacNeice (1939). Not a journal of just any autumn, it's the autumn of 1938 and much is afoot in the world.
I read Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America, by Ivan Doig (1980), his account of reading over the winter of 1978/79 the voluminous diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler on the Olympic Peninsula.
September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I read Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America, by Ivan Doig (1980), his account of reading over the winter of 1978/79 the voluminous diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler on the Olympic Peninsula.