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About Me

i get amnesia from the slightest problems.
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My Interests

Grace, Mercy, my place in the mix. Books. Literary fiction. Chai.

Music:

.............BEN HARPER, JOSH RITTER, the beatles, bob dylan, imogen heap, jenny lewis, iron and wine, eric bachman black rebel motorcycle club, sufjan stevens, the magic numbers, denison witmer, regina spektor, pssat, the fiery furnaces, feist, kings of convenience, chris mills, all-time quarterback, brett dennen, azure ray, band of horses, the arcade fire, greg brown, keren ann and so it goes..............

Movies:

sylvia, eternal sunshine, singing in the rain, best in show, bottle rocket, royal tenenbaums, i heart huckabees, rushmore, kill bill 1 and 2, life aquatic, the squid and the whale, amelie, the virgin suicides, everything is illuminated, little miss sunshine.

Television:

Jeopardy--I'm not ashamed. Arrested Development. Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Books:

.............Peace Like a River (Leif Enger), The Virgin Suicides (Eugenides), Paris Trout (Pete Dexter), The Good Earth (Pearl S Buck), The Summer Guest (Justin Cronin), the Bible, Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, (F. Scott), The Bell Jar (Plath), Somehow Form A Family (Tony Earley), The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien), Middlesex (Eugenides), Sula (Morrison), Slaugherhouse five (Vonnegut) Blue Like Jazz (Miller) ****Random Authors****: Ted Hughes. Hemingway, Plath, Ginsberg, Bukowski, Kerouac, Sexton, li young lee, steinbeck, phillip yancey, t.s. eliot, adrienne rich, G.K. Chesterton, pablo neruda, carl sandburg, william carlos williams, C.S. Lewis, J.D. Salinger (but seriously exempting Catcher in the Rye"), Andre Dubus, Orwell, Albert Camus, Alan Paton, Dan Chaon, flannery o'connor, james baldwin, roethke, ezra pound, and so on.....................................

My Blog

The Jane Austen Debate

so i'm one of those "literary" types (or at least i try my hardest to pass as such). given that, you can imagine the dropped jaws i've experienced from other women readers when i tell them that i hate...
Posted by Bethany on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:23:00 PST

Morning Song

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cryTook its place among the elements. Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.In a drafty museum...
Posted by Bethany on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:53:00 PST

Tuesday, June 4, 1991

Under the music I can hear the rush of cars and truckson the highway and every so often the new kitten, Felix,hops into my lap and watches my fingers drumming outa running record of this particular Ju...
Posted by Bethany on Fri, 05 May 2006 10:12:00 PST

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

after the murder, after the burialEmmett's mother is a pretty-faced thing; the tint of pulled taffy.She sits in a red room, drinking black coffee.She kisses her killed boy. And sh...
Posted by Bethany on Thu, 04 May 2006 06:34:00 PST

Heaven

He thinks when we die we'll go to China.Think of it---a Chinese heavenwhere, except for his blond hair,the part that belongs to his father,everyone will look like him.China, that blue flower on the ma...
Posted by Bethany on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:25:00 PST

The Far Field

3.The river turns on itself,The tree retreats into its own shadow.I feel a weightless change, a moving forwardAs of water quickening before a narrowing channelWhen banks converge, and the wide river w...
Posted by Bethany on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:27:00 PST

for marilyn m.

slipping keenly into bright ashes,target of vanilla tearsyour sure body lit candles for menon dark nights,and now your night is darkerthan the candle's reachand we will forget you, somewhat,and it is ...
Posted by Bethany on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:56:00 PST

Kerouac

.....soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, splashed with burgandy red, the fields of love and Spanish mysterie...
Posted by Bethany on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:37:00 PST

A Story In 6 Words

For SaleBaby ShoesNever Worn -Hemingway
Posted by Bethany on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:46:00 PST