Word: wanderings
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...Where Shall I Wander By John Ashbery Some poets thunder and some poets sing. Ashbery just talks, sifting through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds. His poems register pain, but at a distance, transformed into a funny wistfulness, as if it all happened a couple of years and a couple of good martinis ago: "It's really quite a thrill/ when the moon rises above the hill/ and you've gotten over someone/ salty and mercurial, the only person you ever loved...
FINDING FIDO GlobalPetFinder is a GPS collar that enables you to track your missing dog via cell phone, PDA or computer. Given the cost--$350 plus a monthly $18 to $20--it's best for only those pooches most likely to wander ? The less pricey PupLight ($20), a collar-hung safety flashlight, helps locate your dog at campsites and sheds light during nighttime walks
...feet from the iPod itself, this is really for close-in convenience. Instead of having a cord dangling awkwardly from your head down to your pocket, purse or backpack, you have the freedom to hide your iPod away. Set your playlist, drop it in your bag, then wander around, letting people on the sidewalk, at the gym or on the bus wonder where your music comes from...
Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the streets in the darkness, in the rain, alone...
...Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls, "I lost the sense of Jewish identity. My family's history, my people's history receded. I was preoccupied with my own life, my own affairs." He became a successful painter, an occasional novelist...