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...Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for his 1975 volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But accolades aside, Ashbery remains one of the most important poets today for his renovation of poetic forms, constant self-examination and personal and artistic renewal. As he wrote in “Houseboat Days,” “To praise this, blame that, / Leads one subtly away from the beginning, where / We must stay, in motion...
...with a glossy American smile ends up in a seaplane, carrying her infant daughter over the jungle canopy of Peru? There are an estimated 420,000 Christian missionaries worldwide, but most Americans cannot fathom the choices made by Veronica (Roni) Bowers--a woman who raised her children on a houseboat on the Amazon and preached the gospel to people who have never seen a light bulb. Behind the battery of urgent questions about the tragic downing of the missionary plane are quieter ones about the people who died...
Roni Bowers' life looked a lot like something out of The Mosquito Coast: she and her family lived on a 55-ft. houseboat with two bedrooms and a solar-powered refrigerator. They collected rainwater in tanks on the roof, which they filtered for drinking. From their home base in Iquitos, they motored back and forth along a lush 200-mile stretch of the Amazon, making regular stops at some 50 villages to set up volleyball nets, read Bible stories and show religious films off the boat's generator. For Roni, everyday worries included making sure her adopted son, Cory...
There was a boy in Kashmir who befriended me. He followed me about, offering to show me the sights, find me a houseboat, take me shopping. Irritated, I asked for a militant. It was worth a shot. In the old days, the "boys"?Kashmiri freedom fighters?would seek out journalists. All you had to do was spread the word that you were around. The militants in the early 1990s were idealistic and nationalistic. They wanted you to believe they were peaceful people who had been forced into violence because of injustices they had faced from India. But those boys...
...huge one can't possibly explore it all in a single visit--or 30, for that matter. People who have spent most of their life here admit that they find new side canyons and hidden alcoves each time they venture out. That may be why 60% of all houseboat renters return...