(1) As ascribed by Chicago writer Rick Kogan
Sauk Valley's premier bookstore/coffeehouse features fiction, non-fiction, children's & local interest books.
Open 7 days/week, we also have fine coffees & pastries, wooden puzzles, children's art supplies & other toys, handmade fair trade goods plus priceless conversation. Special orders welcomed.
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Where's Waldo? Too
We are gearing up for our second annual Where's Waldo? challenge . Twenty-five (25) businesses throughout Dixon , mostly in Downtown ...
28 July 2012
See Poetry in Everything
Life is so automated, mechanized, digitized and streamlined these days that many of us tend to wallow in nostalgia and romanticize the past. Well, the good old days are now. When else in history have humans been able to choose how they wanted their steak cooked, in a frying pan on an electrical or gas-heated stove burner, atop a charcoal grill, or in a big stewpot.
But, where is the poetry? That's been romanticized, too. e.e. cummings showed that mere letters and numbers could be as poetic as Victorian words, yet here we are interrupting a marketer's dream of streamlined letters and numbers with a nightmare of words, as suggested by the Wall Street Journal's John Paul Newport with a little help from former US Poet Laureate and "stand-up poet"(1) Billy Collins for, of all things, golf balls.
(1) As ascribed by Chicago writer Rick Kogan
(1) As ascribed by Chicago writer Rick Kogan
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