Category Archives: Poetry

ffb: The Case of the Missing Brontë

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Rick Robinson

this is the 131st in my series of posts on forgotten or seldom read books The Case of the Missing Brontë by Robert Barnard © 1983, this edition Dell 1984 mass market paperback – mystery, police procedural featuring Scotland Yard Superintendant Perry Trethowan … Continue reading →

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ffb: Wind Song

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Rick Robinson

this is the 130th in my series of posts on forgotten or seldom read books Wind Song by Carl Sandburg, a Voyager Book, Harcourt, Brace & World 1960 trade paperback – poetry collection. Cover and illustrations by William A. Smith. … Continue reading →

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“Ploughboy” by Carl Sandburg

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Rick Robinson

My mother read the poem to me when I was six years old, and she told me her mother read it to her when she was six, when the poem was only 8 years old, a recent work. Now the … Continue reading →

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