![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than a traditional couplet that appears as a neat package on the page, these lines give the impression that something is off-just out of reach in the white space of the indent-and that normal order has been disrupted. ![]() The movement of these lines forward and back on the page establishes a sense of lagging, observation, and following. It is primarily written in couplets, with the second line of each couplet being indented, until the final line, which exists alone on the line as a singleton. It should not be lost on readers that the poem entitled "Threshold" is the first poem in the collection, siphoned off from even the first section by a dividing paratext-it is an invitation to cross that same line with the speaker and participate in a shared performance of his recollections and emotions. "Threshold" is a stark, yet highly technical, poem that sets the stage strongly for the rest of the collection and establishes many of its major themes and dynamics. As the poem closes, this personalized speaker-a poetic externalization of Ocean's self, reflects that the "cost" of being caught listening to his father was to "lose / way back." Analysis ![]() As the poem recounts, however, young Ocean's father caught him spying one day to unknown consequence. It describes young Ocean's habit of watching his father shower through a keyhole and listening to him sing. The poem "Threshold" is the first poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds. ![]()
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![]() It was to these men that he “mentioned my Crazy Idea.” Simply put, Knight hoped to bring Japanese shoes into the Western marketplace, similar - he thought - to how high-quality Japanese cameras had gradually overwhelmed German cameras in the U.S. Thankfully for Knight, his father, a newspaper editor in Oregon, had a few friends working at the United Press International (UPI). Knight may not have been fluent in Japanese, but he admired Zen philosophy, and during his first few days, he took in temples, shrines and gardens, “trying to soak it all in.” He juxtaposed his harmonic pursuit of peace with a trip to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where businessmen sat in various states of chaos, “waving their arms, pulling their hair, screaming.” “For long, solemn stretches the cabdriver and I said nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Vast sections of the city were total liquid black,” Knight recalled in his memoir, Shoe Dog. He’d had better luck selling securities so, after earning a few commissions, he decided to leave his now-in-love friend behind and see about this “crazy” business idea he had involving running shoes.Īs Knight rode in a taxi toward a “dingy hostel” in Tokyo, he saw that, even 17 years later, the city was still recovering from the bombings during the war. ![]() Instead of learning Japanese, Knight had spent the last 10 weeks with a friend in Hawaii, selling encyclopedias door to door, surfing and frequenting dive bars. 22, 1962, Phil Knight, 24, sat on a plane bound for Tokyo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part fantasy, part science fiction, and part story of survival, read the acclaimed novel that sweeps across the human experience and digs into the darkest corners of the mind. What happens when there is no more death? Here Lies Death is the story of Kelsey and April, sisters who are forced to explore their own mortality because of unprecedented supernatural phenomena. While following two sisters, April and Kelsey, after they are not. Unfortunately, it did not get any better. While the premise seemed good in the beginning, I almost gave up on this book but I trudged through it til the end. ![]() While the slow realization of life without death begins to burn itself into a new reality, the human race threatens to implode. On December 21, 2012, the processes of death and aging stop completely. Note: I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. As the world struggles to understand the psychological and sociological implications, Kelsey and April dive deeper into hopelessness and depravity. On December 21, 2012, the processes of death and aging stop completely. If you are signing up to review Please Remember you have 2 weeks to read and review and post the links to your review on this page! For more information about RI&R and our Rules & Requirements click here. Our goal is to help indie and self-published authors promote their books. Our Read It & Reap program is designed with authors in mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() As more information surfaced, the myths gave way to a certain elusive peace Diane discovered a tribe in her mother’s family, found a Swiss husband, gained a voice, and, for the first time, began to trust in the intuition that had nudged her all along. Like a private eye, she sifted through competing versions of the truth only to find that, having traveled throughout Europe and back, identity is a state of mind. She struggled to understand what was at stake with the lies. In the months that ensued, everybody had a different story to tell about Diane’s origins, including Otto when they met in New York City. With that, her world shifted on its axis. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from Switzerland: her biological father, Otto, wanted to bring her into his life. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. ![]() The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection-but eventually, they imploded. ![]() ![]() Sanders" story of kidnapping, murder, and police corruption became a #1 New Zealand fiction bestseller, staying atop the bestseller charts for several weeks. After writing two unpublished crime novels as a high school student, Sanders secured a two-book deal with HarperCollins that saw his debut novel The Fallen published in 2010 when he was a 20-year-old engineering student at the University of Auckland. He tried writing his own crime novel, set in the United States, as a teenager. ![]() His favourite authors as a young reader were Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Peter Dexter, and James Ellroy. He read the Day of the Jackal while in middle school, and was hooked. Sanders was a keen reader as a child, and particularly enjoyed crime and thriller fiction. He wanted to be a writer from when he was a young child. ![]() |