Setting Up House
Lanea on Feb 28th 2006
I mentioned before that my first introduction to Berryman was Dream Song #14. It remains one of my favorite poems ever written, and knocks around in my brain the way “You do not do, you do not do / Anymore black shoe” and I grow old…I grow old…/ I shall wear the bottoms of my […]
More Interview Excerpts
Lanea on Feb 28th 2006
Originally posted by Rachel There’s a real post in progress, really, but first, I promised some more interview excerpts with Berryman. From “An Interview with John Berryman,” John Plotz, originally published in The Harvard Advocate 103, no. 1, reprinted in Berryman’s Understanding: Reflections of the Poetry of John Berryman, edited by Harry Thomas, Northeastern […]
Gold Medal
Lanea on Feb 28th 2006
Kiri, in Elann Baby Cashmere, Tapestry Blue. Knit on US size 7 needles Pony Rosewoods, Addi Naturas, and Susan Bates Quicksilver needles in that order. More or less. The Quicksilvers kept driving me nuts because I hate the metal-on-metal sound, and the Naturas kept driving me nuts because that little divot at the join was […]
Hearing Berryman
Lanea on Feb 24th 2006
I haven’t fallen off the planet or anything, but the Knitting Olympics and trading offices with my husband have been monopolizing (biopolizing?) my time. Done and done. I am normally the Queen of Class Participation. I’ll try to be a better student from here on out. I finally got comfortable enough with my own version […]
Time to learn the Welsh National Anthem, everybody
Lanea on Feb 23rd 2006
Kiri is knitted, washed, and pinned out on a sheet in a pet-less room. Tomorrow morning, I expect some good palatal double Ls and some fine clear diphthongs from all of you after I weave in the ends. Halla-fricking-Lleu-Llaw-Gyffes-yeah. And, as if that weren’t good enough, I have reached near-completion in my new studio. I […]
Commercial break
Lanea on Feb 15th 2006
Can’t talk: watching curling! I am writing during commercial breaks. Running up and down the steps over and over again so you, Gentle Reader, don’t think I’ve fallen off the planet. Really, I’ve fallen into a long-awaited winter. An Olympic Winter, no less. I’m absolutely chuffed. It snowed! It finally snowed! Kayo needs snow. And […]
Inspiration
Lanea on Feb 9th 2006
So, a group of us spent last weekend at John the Farrier’s near Charlottesville. Yet again: a hoot. We had exceedingly warm weather for February, and a bit more rain than we needed on Saturday. More importantly, we also had one person after another learning to forge. It was beautiful, seriously amazing, heartwarming stuff to […]