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1998 My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
1996 Infinite Jest by William Foster Wallace (USA)
1992 The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1991 Angels in America by Tony Kushner (USA)
1990 Omeros by Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia)
1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison (USA)
1987 Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
1985 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (USA)
1985 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
1981 ...

100 Pliny the Younger- Letter to Sura
900 Anonymous- Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad
1200 Marie de France- Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
1250 Anonymous- Eyrbyggja Saga
1555 Pierre de Ronsard- Hymn to Demons
1605 William Shakespeare- Macbeth
1609 Thomas Middleton- The Witch
1621 Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley- The Witch of Edmonton
1633 John Donne- The Apparition
1634 Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome- The Late Lancashire ...

Since Ki (the 3 year old Siberian husky) doesn’t get to go outside and run around freely (she has one of those extending leads) sometimes I like to play with her in the house. I’m also trying to make up for the fact that her previous home had two young children for her to play with and now she has an overweight, lazy, older woman and an overweight, lazy, young woman to play with instead. It’s been eighteen years give or take since our male Labrador whippet crossbreed Bernie died (I say died, he ...

Some of you may recall the post I did a while back about my cat's eye suddenly changing color and making me feel like I was dillsusional, but just in case here is a quick recap, along with an update on the situation:

About a couple months ago I went out in the garage to see my cat and noticed that his left eye had suddenly changed color. His eyes have always been a green-yellow color, but all of the sudden his left eye now looked more reddish brown. I went to take a closer look at ...

A found poem is poetry taken from prose writing and reshaped to a poetic form. It’s “found” because the reader is so impressed with the writing that he sees a poem there in the language waiting to be crafted.

I came across this passage (from a third party reference) in the Old Testament that I was taken aback with its beauty. I probably had heard it before and never thought twice over it, but this time it sunk in and I realized this was poetry waiting to be shaped.
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