Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)

Registered by wingCordelia-annewing of Decatur, Georgia USA on 9/7/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingCordelia-annewing from Decatur, Georgia USA on Monday, September 7, 2009
Dear Reader,

Of all of the Dover Thrift Edition poetry books, I think this is my favorite. It covers an interesting theme very well and it contains poems I hadn't noticed anywhere else from some of my favorite poets. I'm releasing this in bookcrossing to travel in memory of bookcrosser bookczuk's brother Eric Nadel, who died yesterday, too soon. His life to me seems to have been one of poetic adventure. He left a familiar, American life to live in love in very foreign circumstances. Sadly, he was mortally wounded a little over a week ago in an act of senseless violence. But he was cared for after that in an atmosphere of love and prayer. Many prayed for him in bookcrossing. So I'm releasing this book to travel in bookcrossing in his memory.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
the flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of the birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
the fig tree puteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise,
my love, my fair one and come away.
Song of Solomon 2:11-13 (page 4)


Journal Entry 2 by wingCordelia-annewing from Decatur, Georgia USA on Monday, September 7, 2009
Reading of Eric's life this past week, I was reminded of one of the books that fascinated me as a teenager, the novel, The Razor’s Edge, published in 1944 by Somerset Maugham. Its epigraph, a translation by American writer Christopher Isherwood, reads: "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." —Katha-Upanishad. In the Razor's Edge, Maugham wrote of an American, traumatized by World War I, who left a potentially comfortable life to find enlightenment in India. This seemed like the ultimate adventure to me. The pictures bookczuk shared of her beloved older brother, who left American life to follow an Indian avatar, revealed a man whose face was constantly filled with love for his wife Heather, for life and for God. May his soul find peace!

Journal Entry 3 by wingCordelia-annewing at Greymouth, West Coast New Zealand on Monday, September 7, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (9/7/2009 UTC) at Greymouth, West Coast New Zealand

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I'm sending this, in memory of Eric, to annenz in the Southern Hemisphere who should also be receiving a book from bumma's bookshelf soon.

I can't help remembering one of my favorite writers Robert Louis Stevenson and his beautiful requiem:

UNDER the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill. (page 55)

Stevenson, a Scot, died far away from his native country in Samoa, an island in the Pacific, where he was beloved. May Eric's memory comfort his loved ones at this sad time.

Journal Entry 4 by annenz from Greymouth, West Coast New Zealand on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Thank you so much, will pass on to another bookcrosser when finished:)

Journal Entry 5 by alkaline-kiwi from Auckland, Auckland Province New Zealand on Thursday, October 29, 2009
annenz passed this one on to me when I caught up with her when I was down visiting friends and family in Greymouth. I read it on the bus today going from Greymouth to Christchurch.

I'm not the biggest fan of poetry but I do enjoy some poems and there are some great ones in this collection. Some of my favourites include There is no Frigate like a Book, On the World, Out Where The West Begins, Riding on a Railroad Train, The Tropics in New York, America For Me and Tavern.

I will be wild releasing this book on the book exchange shelf at the Christchurch Central YHA, I figure that someone who enjoys travel and adventure will pick this one up and take it on its own adventure.

Journal Entry 6 by penno from Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Friday, November 6, 2009
Love it! Just about through and then I'll drop off at a convenient NZ backpackers. (c:

Journal Entry 7 by penno at YHA Hostel in Te Anau, Southland New Zealand on Sunday, November 15, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (11/8/2009 UTC) at YHA Hostel in Te Anau, Southland New Zealand

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Very nice read, very good selection for the traveller - thanks!

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