Dansite

The new version of my site has been up for a while now with the Reading page remaining empty...

“The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of..."

“New Year’s Eve 1899 must have felt momentous even if you weren’t a four-year-old backstage at Proctor’s Twenty-Third Street Theater..."

“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an officer in the Union Army. He stood six feet three inches tall..."

“I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding—..."

“IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying,..."

“When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window...."

"First there was nothing. Then there was everything..."

To give mind to machines, they are calling it
out of the world, out of the neighborhood, out of the body...

"O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring weight looming in tears..."

“To say the truth, it was not how I expected—stepping off toward America past a drowned horse."...

“After all," said the Duchess vaguely, "there are certain things you can't get away from..."

“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."...

Treats received today from my good friend Will Leathem. I read them immediately...

All these acquisitions, and any that aren't here but on the way, are justified by the fact that...I wanted them...

“Dypaloh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting..."

I imagine her attention falling to me, just for a moment, in this crowd, out on the street...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, champion of Beat Generation writers passed away this week at 101 years of age...

"There is a kind of life that is peculiar to the land in summer—a wariness, a seasonal equation of well-being and alertness..."

From Prospero's Books Kansas City, The Dusty Bookshelf Lawrence, KS, and my Library of America subscription...