Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast: 120 Poems from the Subways and Buses
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Released 14 yrs ago (8/20/2009 UTC) at United States Post Office - 455 E. House St. in Alvin, Texas USA
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I'm mailing this off in the Summer Fun Bookbox!
Released 10 yrs ago (5/26/2013 UTC) at ABC Bookbox (Already Book Crossed) in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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I studied this poem in high school english.
We Real Cool
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Released 6 yrs ago (5/8/2017 UTC) at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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This is the Journal Book for the Variety Genre Bookbox (US only). This book will travel with the bookbox, so we can track it. A couple of things, I would like all the books be copyright 2000 or later and I don't want the box back, so maybe the last person on the list would be a Little Free Library steward or a person that helps feed a local OBCZ.
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rhythmbiscuit
Mrsjones
Heartthumper
well-chilled <--Asked to be skipped
Aramena
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LaveggioCoffee
BookLovinMama
Sending to rhythmbiscuit to start this Bookbox.
From the bookbox, I selected the following:
Hotel World by Ali Smith
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
I'll choose what to add to the box and contact the next recipient.
Better than Chocolate
Miss Appleby's Academy
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
And added:
The Confession
The Innocent Man
Margo's House
The Children Act
Sent out to heartthumper today. Thanks for including me!
The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey
Why Mermaids Sing - C.S. Harris
When Maidens Mourn - C.S. Harris
Summer Days - Susan Mallery
Stray - Rachel Vincent
I will add my books to the box and get it mailed off as soon as I get an address. Thanks for including me.
"The Eagle" has landed...and just in time for my Matcha Tea break, so I've PMd LaveggioCoffee for her address, and am enjoying a few poems from the "Poetry In Motion From Coast to Coast" Journal Book (love this!) with my tea. Friday (perhaps Saturday) will be the earliest opportunity I will have to look through the box to make my selections and additions, but I wanted to let you know it arrived safely. ; ) I'll send it on its way the first part of next week, and make a quick JE once I post this, as well. ; )
The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
I have CHOSEN and REMOVED (3) Titles from the Bookbox:
An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman: Book 1) by Pamela Aidanhttps://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2571136
Duty And Desire (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentlemen: Book 2) by Pamela Aidan https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2571140
These Three Remain (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Book 3) by Pamela Aidan https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3566607
I have ADDED (3) Titles to the Bookbox:
Moving Target (Harlequin Romantic Suspense) by Kimberly Van Meter
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14375422
The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14512872
The House of God by Samuel Shem, M.D., Ph.D.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14512880
And I found LaveggioCoffee's address in my email when I checked it today, so I have the package all ready to mail out...most likely after the 4th of July, but I'll try for the 3rd, if I am feeling better. ; ) I will make release notes that contain the Tracking Number once I do. THANK YOU for organizing, and including me in, your Bookbox, JennyC1230!!! ; )
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Released 6 yrs ago (7/26/2017 UTC) at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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Tracking # 9549010226627207087880
Taken out:
Dockside
The Children Act
Live from New York
Burn
The Taste of Air
Put in:
Revenge of Teacher's Pet
Storm Keeper
In a Sunburned Country
A Spool of Blue Thread
Blondes
Thanks for including us
We will log each of the books over the next few days and then put in release notes as we pass them along. Thanks again everyone!
We'll utilize this book as a journal for another bookring/bookray in the near future.
Released 5 yrs ago (12/3/2018 UTC) at Mystery & Thriller Book Box in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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I am talking to you about poetry
and you say
when do we eat.
The worst of it is
I'm hungry too.
Released 4 yrs ago (6/25/2019 UTC) at by mail, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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I Ask My Mother to Sing
by Li-Young Lee
She begins, and my grandmother joins her.
Mother and daughter sing like young girls.
If my father were alive, he would play
his accordion and sway like a boat.
I've never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace,
nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch
the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picknickers
running away in the grass.
But I love to hear it sung;
how the waterlilies fill with rain until
they overturn, spilling water into water,
then rock back, and fill with more.
Both women have begun to cry,
But neither stops her song.
Ventanas Pintadas
by Gloria Fuertes
Vivía en una casa
con dos ventanas de verdad y las otras dos pintadas en la fachada.
Aquellas ventanas pintadas fueron mi primer dolor.
Palpaba las paredes del pasillo,
intentando encontrar las ventanas por dentro.
Todo mi infancia la pasé con el deseo
de asomarme para ver lo que se veía
desde aquellas ventanas que no existieron.
Painted Windows
translated by Philip Levine
I lived in a house
with two real windows and the other two painted on.
Those painted windows caused my first sorrow.
I'd touch the sides of the hall
trying to reach the windows from inside.
I spent my whole childhood wanting
to lean out and see what could be seen
from the windows that weren't there.