Review: Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James

Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James by Rick James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a lot of fun to read and even though it was really ghost written for James, as explained in the introduction by co-author David Ritz. It has James' voice, including crude language, throughout. It is a brisk, salacious, tell-all story of a life of near misses, crimes, jail time, and the high-life. Prince gets taken down as being a jerk as does, kind of, George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic for choosing to indulge in James's blow instead of helping foster his glow. Along the way, Rick takes cocaine to get into the mood for his first TV exposure with Dick Clark (American Bandstand Season 21 Episode 42 aired Jul 22, 1978), fosters the singing careers of Teena Marie and Eddie Murphy and hangs with Linda Blair. Most interesting to me was with the near misses with Toronto all-star Mynah Birds (including Neil Young) and later with White Cane.

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Review: The Last of the Mountain Men

The Last of the Mountain Men by Harold Peterson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

When I read this book in 1994, the plucky and somewhat dismissive semi-hermit recalled to me Walden and its author Henry David Thoreau. Like Thoreau, this man had to make it town for supplies, etc. occasionally. However, for this living anachronism it was a rocky trek, not the "stroll" it was for Thoreau. Like a connection to the Transcendentalist Movement, this man was proud of his self-sufficiency and the study in solitude and self-reliance compelled me to gift it to the only like-minded person I knew: Ernest Mann:



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Review: Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James

Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James by Rick James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a lot of fun to read and even though it was really ghost written for James, as explained in the introduction by co-author David Ritz. It has James' voice, including crude language, throughout. It is a brisk, salacious, tell-all story of a life of near misses, crimes, jail time, and the high-life. Prince gets taken down as being a jerk as does, kind of, George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic for choosing to indulge in James's blow instead of helping foster his glow. Along the way, Rick takes cocaine to get into the mood for his first TV exposure with Dick Clark, fosters the sining careers of Teena Marie and Eddie Murphy and hangs with Linda Blair. Most interesting to me was with the near misses with Toronto all-star Mynah Birds (including Neil Young) and later with White Cane.

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Review: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin G. Boyle
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a detailed study of the life of Ossian Sweet. Sweet was an American physician in Detroit, Michigan, noted for his armed self-defense in 1925 of his newly purchased home in a white Detroit neighborhood against a racist mob trying to force him out. This lengthy account is his life from Bartow, FL to his lonely suicide March 20, 1960, in his office apartment in Detroit, MI. Beside details of the day Sweet, family members, and friends found themselves in an armed stand-off with the crowd (I am sure some details are up for debate), much is told about this was the genesis of the nascent NAACP's legal defense fun and experience, leading up to Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Also, there is the background of frumpy idealist attorney Clarence Darrow who came in to fight for Sweet et al in the first and subsequent trials. Much of this is approaching a scholarly level of detail, which made this a longer time in reading than I expected, but a very important chapter of U.S. and Detroit history.

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Review: The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind

The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind by Barbara Strauch
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A very readable, very enlightening overview of the science on brain health and maintenance of people, say, 40 - 60. While there is nothing conclusive that nootropics—also called smart drugs, memory enhancers, neuro-enhancers, cognitive enhancers, and intelligence enhancers—are possible, let alone present in the form of resveratrol or red wine, blueberries or antioxidants. But, there is studies upon studies that prove the existence of and capability to foster neurogenesis (birth of neurons)—the process by which neurons are generated from neural stem cells and progenitor cells—in the adult human hippocampus. This can be easily done with the two E's: exercise and education. Exercise at least a half hour a day and do education at least in crossword puzzles, something that fosters increased blood flow to the brain and active research and problem solving.

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Review: The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer by Chris Blatchford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a fascinating criminal career biography of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez. The arc is from growin up on the violent streets of East L.A., prison at the age, induction into the widely feared Mexican Mafia La Eme. Enriquez helped La Eme become the powerful and violent organization that it is now, with a base army of approximately 60,000 heavily armed gang members who control the prison system and a large part of California crime. Arguably the most dangerous gang in American history, journalist Chris Blatchford with the cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of La Eme. This includes the details of the 2000 Pelican Bay mass assault on black prisoners which can be viewed online.

It is interesting to me that divulgence of this information is to a great degree symptomatic of a weak period in La Eme, when lethal violence had leaked out of the criminal subclass (namely, resulting in the death of children) and lax vetting of candidates allowed informants to enter. This is very similar to me to the story of the success of William Queen, a nearly 20-year ATF veteran as well as a motorcycle enthusiast, in infiltrating the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Mongols. During the same time in 1998, the ATF was contacted by a confidential informant offering to help place an agent inside the gang. Looking back on the story ending with Boxer disappearing into enter the federal government’s witness protection program, I ponder much this fact that we only see these organized crime innards when they spill out due to lax controls.

Does society tolerate or even have a role that accommodate organized crime within certain parameters? When gangs keep violent crime to internal policing, attacking other gangs over "turf", and preying on unorganized non-violent criminals like drug dealers and offer security to small business (mild extortion), is it, in a sense, "OK"? It seems in practice, from the original Mafia to the Mongols to La Eme, history shows that it is. This line of thought recalls to me this sanguine philosophy: "The composer whose works were being performed had provided program notes. One of these notes was to the effect that there is too much pain in the world. After the concert I was walking along with the composer and he was telling me how the performances had not been quite up to snuff. So I said, 'Well, I enjoyed the music, but I didn't agree with that program note about there being too much pain in the world.' He said, 'What? Don't you think there's enough?' I said, 'I think there's just the right amount.' (From: John Cage. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press.)


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Review: Silence: Lectures and Writings

Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read this years ago, the affecting musings of a "compleat" composer essayist on art and such joie de vivre topics as mushroom collecting. Three things particularly stay with me over the years :

1. his ordering that it's good to listen to music, better to play it, best to create it via composition. this urges me to someday become capable on some instrument and also create something, maybe my own book if not a tune

2. cage in a silencing anechoic chamber, an experiment I duplicated in a semi-anechoic chamber at General motors. there's no silence for the living. you hear 2 distinct and low volume tones: the high pitch of the nervous system and the low pitch of the circulatory system.

3. This sanguine philosophy: "The composer whose works were being performed had provided program notes. One of these notes was to the effect that there is too much pain in the world. After the concert I was walking along with the composer and he was telling me how the performances had not been quite up to snuff. So I said, 'Well, I enjoyed the music, but I didn't agree with that program note about there being too much pain in the world.' He said, 'What? Don't you think there's enough?' I said, 'I think there's just the right amount.'


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Review: Rat Catching

Rat Catching by Crispin Hellion Glover
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. (Paul Delvaux)


this is a surrealist reassembly of the 1896 memoir/guide book/paean to rat-catching Studies in the art of rat-catching of Henry C. Barkley.

“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” 
― Comte de Lautréamont

it recalls to me the thoughts of Delvaux and the Comte. But, there's also a nagging feeling a beautifully quaint and obsessive autobiography is merely presented in marred form... but then i greatly enjoyed the reading. Is all the taxidermy in the original? now, I want to try my hand at reengineering and envisioning anew a curious 19th century tome..

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Review: The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer by Chris Blatchford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a fascinating criminal career biography of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez. The arc is from growin up on the violent streets of East L.A., prison at the age, induction into the widely feared Mexican Mafia La Eme. Enriquez helped La Eme become the powerful and violent organization that it is now, with a base army of approximately 60,000 heavily armed gang members who control the prison system and a large part of California crime. Arguably the most dangerous gang in American history, journalist Chris Blatchford with the cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of La Eme. This includes the details of the 2000 Pelican Bay mass assault on black prisoners which can be viewed online.

It is interesting to me that divulgence of this information is to a great degree symptomatic of a weak period in La Eme, when lethal violence had leaked out of the criminal subclass (namely, resulting in the death of children) and lax vetting of candidates allowed informants to enter. This is very similar to me to the story of the success of William Queen, a nearly 20-year ATF veteran as well as a motorcycle enthusiast, in infiltrating the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Mongols. During the same time in 1998, the ATF was contacted by a confidential informant offering to help place an agent inside the gang. Looking back on the story ending with Boxer disappearing into enter the federal government’s witness protection program, I ponder much this fact that we only see these organized crime innards when they spill out due to lax controls.

Does society tolerate or even have a role that accommodate organized crime within certain parameters? When gangs keep violent crime to internal policing, attacking other gangs over "turf", and preying on unorganized non-violent criminals like drug dealers and offer security to small business (mild extortion), is it, in a sense, "OK"? It seems in practice, from the original Mafia to the Mongols to La Eme, history shows that it is.

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Review: Polyhedra Primer

Polyhedra Primer by Peter Jon Pearce
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Author Peter Pearce is an American product designer, author, and inventor. He was an assistant to Buckminster Fuller and like his mentor, Pearce advocates for inspiration from basic 2- and 3-dimensional polytopes. This primer is a basic catalog of images and descriptions with only rudimentary mathematics such as a statement of Euler’s formula relating the number of vertices, edges and faces of a convex polyhedron. First published in 1978, this is a visual gallery of inspiration for designers, architects, artists, and other creators...



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Review: Functional approach to precalculus

Functional approach to precalculus by Mustafa A. Munem
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This text came out the year I was born as a textbook for a community college in a county adjacent to the one I teach at 45 years later. This was a fully digested of the New Mathematics or New Math brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools during the 1960s. While the phrase is often used now to describe this change as a short-lived pedagogical fad which quickly became highly discredited, the set of teaching practices introduced in the U.S. shortly after the Sputnik crisis in order to boost science education and mathematical skill in the population, introduced topics seen here including modular arithmetic, algebraic inequalities, and abstract algebra. These topics have been greatly de-emphasized or eliminated in US elementary schools and high schools curricula since then while built upon outside of the US. Consequently, a typical US math student is a good academic year behind foreign students who also tend to school for longer during the year. The rules of sets would later prove to be very valuable with the onset of databases and other formations of data that were emerging in society. I find it is the area my incoming students are weakest at when I meet them in their final semester before calculus where the readers of this text were grappling with the idea of a set algebraically closed under an operation. This is something we cannot approach at the level of a first-year college student, any longer. This allows such concepts as the circle as a set of equidistant points from a center as well as proofs and theorems – all notions current students are allergic to. I see the readers of this text could handle mathematical induction, now an optional and often foregone topic, as well as periodic function, basic trigonometry to inverses of the sine and cosine as well as vectors and polar coordinates. Now, these topics, a good engineering foundation, have their own semester.

As this book was falling apart, I disassembled it into two piles: on the left material still taught at my CC at that level and thus of use to me as classroom capsule, and on the right the hefty stack of material now behind the reach of my students:



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Review: An American Childhood

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow! What a delight this memoir of growing up as a precocious, perspicacious young lady. The book is dream-like in its definite and affected retelling of moments and memories in short chapter vignettes. This includes family life with a father yearning for the raucous life of New Orleans and the tranquility of river travel and a cynical, wry mother that reminds me of the one in Once I was a Teenager: Growing up in the 50s and 60s in Australia and beyond. Annie recalls being snowed in for the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, discovering amateur microscopy, ominous Cold War fears, and more.

She has a charming, descriptive style. I never cared why buckeyes were named 'til I read here "Buckeyes were wealth. A ripe buckeye husk splits. It reveals the shining brown sphere inside only partially, as an eyelid only partially discloses an eye's sphere. The nut so revealed looks like the clam brown eye of a buck, apparently. It was odd to imagine the settlers who named it having seen more male deer's eyes in the forest than nuts on a lawn."

However, her real excitement and depth of feeling comes across in the lengthy two-thirds meet of the book given over as a paean to reading itself. It praises individual titles, whole subject areas, the Homewood branch of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library: "I began reading books, reading to delirium. I began by vanishing from the known word into the passive abyss of reading, but soon found myself engaged with surprising vigor because of thing in the books, or even the things surrounding the books, roused me from my stupor." Never did an abyss sound so warm and inviting! I put up there on par with Thoreau's "Reading" chapter in Walden.

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Review: An American Childhood

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow! What a delight this memoir of growing up as a precocious, perspicacious young lady. The book is dream-like in its definite and affected retelling of moments and memories in short chapter vignettes. This includes family life with a father yearning for the raucous life of New Orleans and the tranquility of river travel and a cynical, wry mother that reminds me of the one in Once I was a Teenager: Growing up in the 50s and 60s in Australia and beyond. Annie recalls being snowed in for Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950


TBC

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Review: Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction

Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton D. Davis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When I read that Douglas R. Hofstadter called this work a “lucid and penetrating development of game theory that will appeal to the intuition,” I knew I wanted to read this overview of "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers”, as Roger B. Myerson defined game theory. Published originally in 1970, the reprinted classic looks back to the foundations of game theory laid by John von Neumann. Von Neumann’s basic minimax theorem, proved in 1928, is core to Chapter 2 on two-person, zero-sum games. Being a nontechnical introduction, proof and a good detail of mathematical mechanics are foregone to get a high-level view of the properties of this technique as an applied art and its many applications to social, economic, and political problems...

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Review: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is an important, perceptive work that aims to fight against racist interpretations that the march to ward progress of various peoples is biological, not based on their environment, opportunity, and access to resources. (That is really something we still need to fight?) Diamond does well making his point with continental topography (longitudinal axis of Eurasian versus the longitudinal one of the Western Hemisphere, e.g.), and climes (it's easier to bring crops marching on the same latitude than into other climate zones). This 13,000 year history is bolstered by calibrated C14 dating, which he does well to stress.

His surveys of botany, animal domestications, linguistics, etc. are high-level and thus easily understood in this populist yet enlightening work. This updated version has a chapter dedicated to Japan. There apparently was a real need to approach the thorny issue of Korean or Japanese primacy on the island chain, which Diamond does delicately even though this really seems to stray from the point. Why not instead bring in more recent science, such as evidence for pre-Clovis Polynesian colonization of South America?

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Review: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this fast-paced adventure reportage where the author that wowed me with The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession pulled me into the zeal for Z as he fell prey as had hundreds others to tracking Percy Fawcett into Xingu and the remotest Amazon with its harried and violent natives. Fawcett's life story, as is known, with that of his steadfast wife and sons is interwoven with Grann's sleuthing from archives to the Amazon and the tales of cranks and explorers alike. The real tale that emerges is interesting but not as intriguing as the archeological evidence for how true, if unobtainable for Fawcett, Z may have been. Now I must read The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, Ad 1000 2000.

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Review: Beyond The Far Side

Beyond The Far Side by Gary Larson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Larson's Far Side cartoons always make me laugh, I relish every collection I come across. I like the dark, wry humor. I always recall the unusual activities of cows depicted, but in this collection rhinos are as often the visual punchline.

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Review: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is really a microhistory of the American Revolutionary War using hotheaded, idealistic an fawning Lafayette as a lens. As usual, Vowell entertains and educations with her wit, cycnicsm, and insight. Like Assassination Vacation, her travels to national parks and sites works in here aiding her success in bridging today with the 18th Century. Her stellar case of celebrity narrators includes standout understatement from Nick Offerman.

What did I learn? Besides being reminder of the debt owed to French backing she brings forth valid evidence that starving, ragged Continentals was unnecessary, naval strategy was key, and Fort Lee, New Jersey should be renamed since General Charles Lee was a traitor.

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Review: Functional approach to precalculus

Functional approach to precalculus by Mustafa A. Munem
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This text came out the year I was born as a textbook for a community college in a county adjacent to the one I teach at 45 years later. This was a fully digested of the New Mathematics or New Math brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools during the 1960s. While the phrase is often used now to describe this change as a short-lived pedagogical fad which quickly became highly discredited, the set of teaching practices introduced in the U.S. shortly after the Sputnik crisis in order to boost science education and mathematical skill in the population, introduced topics seen here including modular arithmetic, algebraic inequalities, and abstract algebra. These topics have been greatly de-emphasized or eliminated in US elementary schools and high schools curricula since then while built upon outside of the US. Consequently, a typical US math student is a good academic year behind foreign students who also tend to school for longer during the year. The rules of sets would later prove to be very valuable with the onset of databases and other formations of data that were emerging in society. I find it is the area my incoming students are weakest at when I meet them in their final semester before calculus where the readers of this text were grappling with the idea of a set algebraically closed under an operation. This is something we cannot approach at the level of a first-year college student, any longer. This allows such concepts as the circle as a set of equidistant points from a center as well as proofs and theorems – all notions current students are allergic to. I see the readers of this text could handle mathematical induction, now an optional and often foregone topic, as well as periodic function, basic trigonometry to inverses of the sine and cosine as well as vectors and polar coordinates. Now, these topics, a good engineering foundation, have their own semester.

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Review: Flowers from Eugene Field

Flowers from Eugene Field by Eugene Field
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This mawkish and sentimental book has floral and landscape illustrations inside with poems by Field on various topics from babies to kittens and dolls, much hinting at religious and moralistic instruction for youths. Nothing rises to the level of a "Wynken, Blynken, & Nod", but there is a sequel to "Mary’s Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale, aka "Mary had a little lamb".


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Review: My Young Years

My Young Years by Arthur Rubinstein
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rubinstein so often reports the piece was a success in concert from the very earliest part of this career, that I was prompted to find this recording of him performing the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor to see about it, and indeed full of exploitable dynamics I can see why this piece would win over even reluctant audiences. Rubinstein is as much an evangelist for Brahms and this long, elaborate, adventurous Grand Tour of a performance career.

This is a dense and breathless telling of the young man's accidental discovery of this ability and lurching early career, on up to World War I. Along the way, he recounts all the elite and low-lifes he met, including casual dalliances with young ladies inside and outside of bordellos. (The ease of relating these sexual adventures is rather intriguing considering a life in high art, but then it was a popular art and Arthur was, really, a pop start on the road.)

Among the luminaries and characters met and described here are German pianist Heinrich Barth, Ludwig Bösendorfer himself (piano manufacturers figure in often as agents behind recital arrangements as they seek talent to showcase their often shoddy wares), Pablo Casals (a miserly anarchist here), Lina Cavalieri of My Secrets of Beauty and Arthur's pin-up girl, Russian basso and roué Feodor Chaliapin, the tragic and talented toper and gambler Paul Draper and his powerhouse wife Muriel, the original Englebert Humperdinck, various royalty, Jenny Lind, Lydia Lopoukhava future wife to John Maynard Keynes, cameo by a sullen John Reed, his best Karol Szymanowski, the Tchaikovsky brothers, and much more.

The final chapters covering World War II are fascinating for depictions of life during wartime in a vacant Paris, crowded London, and neutral Spain. At the beginning, we read of a Poland largely subsumed by its neighbors and a tense Europe were even well-attended concerts do not make it easy for a performer to obtain passports without subterfuge.

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Review: Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Neat: Don Henley founded and funded The Walden Woods Project to preserver more of the sacred land around the pond.

A great quote for a cantankerous Thoreau, "Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour ..." What would he think of NAFTA, the internet, and freeways! Still, I know his message which resounds clearly and eloquently here: the comforts of modernity relieve only those inconveniences it itself foments.

Thoreau's prose is crystalline and reasoned. His essay on Reading is a humbling lecture on the possibilities of books when approached reverently. Often he interrupts his prose with poetic quotes or his own verse, such as his paean to life as an inward voyage whereby we discover our potentialities, our unique possibilities for greatness:

"Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find
A thousand regions in your mind
Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be
Expert in home-cosmography."

You can certainly draw a line from the vociferous frugality and civility of Benjamin Franklin to Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalists. How much we have changed from this spiritual side of the American experiment...

Of course, Thoreau was no hermit and could 'stroll' into town. His character sketches of human and fauna visitors as well as sketches of flora cultivated and encountered add depth to this work which has a cyclical arc. We start in this spring with the roughing in of his cabin and seasoned wit stories of the several years he enjoyed the location we end with the study of thawing as winter gives way to spring.

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Review: The Unknown Poe

The Unknown Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This slim volume contains much you will not find in your "unabridged" Poe collections. First, there is some Poe correspondence, prose and poems from his juvenilia, excerpts of his philosophical essay Eureka: A Prose Poem and more. This last is capstone to thread of the prose pieces where he minutely and even scientifically measures and analyses his imagination, admittedly one he finds easily fueled by alcohol. In a concluding section, Poe's criticism is sampled, including that of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Then, the analogy includes his supports especially among the french, his ardent promoter Charles Baudelaire, translator Stéphane Mallarmé, and others fans Paul Valéry, J. K. Huysmans, and André Breton. This is a unique anthology for the serious Poe fanatic.

Probably most interesting to me is how objectively and even scientifically Poe plumbed his psyche, charted the modes of his imagination. It recalled to me the words of Thoreau in Walden:

"Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find
A thousand regions in your mind
Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be
Expert in home-cosmography."

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