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Building Genetic Medicine
In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as BRCA testing) in the United States and Britain, Parthasarathy develops a comparative analysis framework in order to investigate how national "toolkits" shape both regulations and the architectures of technologies and uses this framework to assess the implications of new genetic technologies.
Parthasarathy argues that differences in the American and British approaches to health care and commercialization of research led to the establishment of different BRCA services in the two countries. In Britain, the technology was available through the National Health Service as an integrated program of counseling and laboratory analysis, and was viewed as a potentially cost-effective form of preventive care. In the United States, although BRCA testing was initially offered by a number of providers, one company eventually became the sole provider of a test available to consumers on demand.
Parthasarathy draws lessons for the future of genetic medicine from these cross-national differences, and discusses the ways in which comparative case studies can inform policy-making efforts in science and technology.
About the Author
Shobita Parthasarathy is Associate Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
"Building Genetic Medicine is an enlightening overview of one of the first skirmishes of our genetic century."—American Scientist
"Parthasarathy's book is a beautifully structured, clearly written Tale of Two Cultures. Testing for genes that confer risk of breast cancer was born of Mendelian genetic science and DNA analysis technologies, parentage revered on both sides of the Atlantic. As that genetic testing developed into clinical services, however, it turned out that the story was not just about who discovered what when, or even who owned which patents, but also about how decisions are made about health care technologies, health services, and public health. This story is thus a nonfiction Bildungsroman about a genetic innovation that developed quite differently in the United States and the United Kingdom, two cultures divided by a common science."
Robert Cook-Deegan, Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy, Duke University
"The assumption that universally valid generalizations regarding the value of new medical technologies are possible, given good enough clinical evidence, is proving highly resistant to critique from the social sciences. Shobita Parthasarathy shows how and why genetic testing acquired quite different roles in the United States and in Britain, evoking very different responses from patient advocacy groups in the two countries. Her book is not only a valuable addition to the STS literature. I hope that everyone confronting the implications of rapid scientific and technological advance for health care provision will reflect carefully on what it has to say."
Stuart Blume, Chair, The Innovia Foundation for Medicine, Technology & Society, and Professor of Science Dynamics, University of Amsterdam
"Combining historical, comparative, and coevolutionary perspectives, this book offers a highly original and informative account of the emergence of BRCA testing as a much debated and controversial new health care technology. It makes the reader vividly aware of the various ways in which technologies and practices of health care mutually shape each other."
Dirk Stemerding, Science, Technology, Health & Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands


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That's the title of our new studio LP coming out in the fall of this year. We recorded it all analog at Columbus Discount Records, no digital will be used in the transfer to vinyl. It sounds amazing and we are very happy with the songs. 8 originals and 1 cover clocking in at just over 37 minutes. Initial pressing will be silk screened, and we hope to have them for our shows in the south in September. This is a tight schedule so we can't guarantee that time frame. If not by then, definitely by October.
This will be a vinyl only release, but we are going to start having a digital download option on the CDR website. Both volumes of the Live 2010 will be one download, we will also offer a download for the new studio LP and possibly a compilation of all of our singles and random tracks. This should be happening around the same time as the new studio LP is released (in the fall).

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Tekken CG movie 'Tekken: Blood Vengeance' announced
At a Namco Bandai event in Dubai, the publisher announced a new Tekken title; however, the next title is actually a movie and not a game.
Tekken: Blood Vengeance brings the franchise to the world of CG movies, written by Dai Sato, of Cowboy Bebob and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fame and animated by Digital Frontier, makers of the CG film Resident Evil: Degeneration.
The teaser trailer presented to attendees at the event can be viewed below and while the experience is only a brief glimpse, it quickly establishes itself as tailor-made for Tekken fans. How? Extreme, high-flying Panda action!
Tekken: Blood Vengeance tells the story between between the events of Tekkens 5 and 6, that is "parallel" to the canonical Tekken fiction, according to GameSpot UK. Nacmo Bandai says that the film will be available in both English and Japanese language and that some of the game's voice actors will be used for the film.
More details regarding the film are expected at E3 2011.
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The funding will allow the UCSF team to continue to pursue development of the Smart Diaphragm, a wireless monitoring and warning system for early signs of preterm birth.
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January 15, 2014
Women giving birth in California can face a huge cost difference in their hospital bills, according to a new UCSF study that highlights the need for more price transparency in health care.
January 14, 2014
Americans are being exposed to significantly lower levels of some phthalates that were banned from children's articles in 2008, but exposures to other forms of these chemicals are rising steeply, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
September 25, 2013
A class of flame retardants that has been linked to learning difficulties in children has rapidly declined in pregnant women's blood since the chemicals were banned in California a decade ago, according to a study led by researchers at UCSF.
April 08, 2013
UCSF is hosting a research symposium on Saturday, April 13 to honor longtime UCSF professor Robert Jaffe, MD, a leading specialist in clinical reproductive endocrinology at the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health.
February 11, 2013
Parents are more accepting of their teenage daughters using birth control pills than any other form of contraception, including condoms, according to a recent study from UCSF.
February 06, 2013
Mothers who are exposed to particulate air pollution of the type emitted by vehicles, urban heating and coal power plants are significantly more likely to bear children of low birth weight, according to a UCSF-led international study.
November 20, 2012
The risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease following insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) is very low, whether or not women have been screened beforehand for gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to a joint study of nearly 60,000 women by researchers at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente.
October 02, 2012
Although it's proven that contraception prevents pregnancy, it's also clear that many women who don't want to get pregnant don't use or don't have access to contraception. Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS, a family physician based at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, used implementation science to help women navigate this issue.
August 01, 2012
Women's health is marking a significant milestone Wednesday, as a law requiring health insurance plans to provide new preventive care benefits officially takes effect.


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Looking for Cheap Income? Be Sure You Know What You're Looking At
Jason is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
REITs have been on income investors' radar for the past few years, as traditional income sources like bonds yielding record-low levels. With mortgage REITs like Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) and American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC) paying out dividends over 15%, and at times well above 20% for American Capital, it's a tempting place to invest.
Warren Buffett and Mae West have both said that too much of a good thing can be wonderful, but don't expect good things to always be where you expect. Let's take a look at these two mREITS, plus an alternative that may be a better bet.
Interest rates rising = pressure on the rate spread
While it may sound counterintuitive, rising interest rates don't necessarily help mREITs make money. These companies use short-term debt (which is the interest rate you hear about on the news) to acquire the bundles of mortgages that it collects the interest and principal on. And unless the MBS that it buys are variable rate (it's a small amount of their investments) the "spread" between the rate it's paying on the short-term debt, and the rate it's collecting from mortgage holders, gets squeezed.
Both have cut dividends multiple times in the past few years, and the market has punished them heavily this year, with shares down 23% and 30% respectively on fears of continued dividend declines. But before you assume that shares have bottomed out, there's more to be concerned about.
If rates increase enough, further squeezing the spread, income seekers could further divest their mREIT shares and look to other income sources in the years ahead. In short, you could end up in a pickle, being forced to sell your shares for income because the dividend dried up, and selling at a loss at that.
Additionally, mREITs have little in the way of competitive advantage versus one another, which makes management execution incredibly important. Annaly recently changed its management to an external structure, where management is all contract-based, and not employed by Annaly.
And while this does potentially reduce expenses, it's still a matter of management (and it's the same team, just no longer directly employed by the company), effectively managing the portfolio through this cycle of increasing rates.
Putting the Real Estate back in REIT
If you're anything like me, you've probably noticed a lot of empty commercial real estate over the past few years. Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (NASDAQ: ROIC) CEO Stuart Tanz and his team are doing an admirable job of acquiring distressed, high-upside properties below market value and turning them into profitable, shopper- and merchant-filled destinations.
These efforts are paying off. Per the May 2013 quarterly earnings release, occupancy rates are over 93%, and same-center net operating income grew 7.9% over the year-ago quarter. Both of these items contributed to a net income of $2.3 million in the quarter; more than double the year-ago period.
Lastly, debt is at a very manageable level, so this fast grower will continue expanding as shown by the four new properties acquired in Q1.
Bonus trivia: If you'd bought Annaly shares in June 2010, the current dividend yield would be about 6% based on your purchase price, and paying you 40% less than you were getting when you bought. If you'd bought ROIC shares, the current dividend would pay you a similar 6% yield.
The real difference? Annaly's dividend (and share price) is going down, while ROIC's is heading higher as the company grows.
Foolish bottom line
The 5-year total return for ROIC is 69%, to 60.6% for Annaly. Sure, American Capital has returned 268% over that time, but I'm convinced that the heady days of high spreads are done until interest rates stabilize, and that could take several years.
ROIC, on the other hand, is better positioned for sustained growth. The economy is getting slowly better, which will continue to expand the opportunities for Tanz and his team to make strategic acquisitions and further growing both the bottom- and top-line. While today's dividend of 6% may be low, there's plenty of reason to project it to continue to grow over the next few years.
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The best iOS apps I used in 2010
After looking back over Mac and Mac/iOS hybrid apps, it's time to look at the best iOS apps of 2010. As before, this list comes from my particular experience over the past year with these apps. 1) iCab Mobile (US$1.99, universal) is a replacement for mobile Safari. While it is hindered by the fact...
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La Candelaria - Bed & Breakfast in Essonne
31 rue de Paris, 91370 Verrières le Buisson,
Région Parisienne, France
These exceptional people – an Argentine artist, an eccentric English photographer, their four excellent children – will open their unconventional arms and carry you into their wide-ranging interests: art and history, travel and ancestors. They found a near-ruin and turned it into an elegant, airy family house full of paintings, books and curiosities. Up its own steep stair, your gentle third-floor room is big, beamy, slathered in little ancestral portraits and graced by a great tin bath before the dormer window – try it. The shower room is up two high steps through a very low door. Wonderful, if not for the halt and lame!
- Wheelchair access
- At least one bedroom & bathroom accessible.
- Limited mobility
- At least one bedroom & bathroom accessible without steps.
- Children welcome
- Kids of all ages can stay.
- No smoking
- Smoking not permitted anywhere in the property.
- Credit cards
- Credit or debit card payment accepted.
- English spoken
- Host speaks English, whether perfectly or not.
- Air conditioning
- Some, if not all, bedrooms are air-conditioned.
- WiFi
- Wireless internet access available.
- Pets welcome
- Pets allowed in bedrooms (not on the bed).
- Public transport
- Within 10 miles of a bus/train station.
- Working farm
- Or vineyard.
- Owner has pets
- Animals living on the property.
- Swimming pool
- On the premises.
- Bikes available
- On the premises to hire or borrow.
- Tennis court
- On the premises.
- Vegetarian meals
- Available on request.
- Licensed premises
- Alcohol may be served.
- Cash only
- Credit or debit card payment not accepted.
- Dogs welcome
- Dogs welcome in some public rooms.
- Handpumped ales
- Pub serves four or more handpumped ales.
- Wine list
- Pub serves eight or more wines by the glass.
- Food all day
- Food is served all day long.
- Babies welcome
- Cot may be provided.
Local points of interest from
Hugh & Celina Arnold:
- Just 20 minutes by train from central Paris - our favourites there are the Rodin Museum, the catacombs and the Louvre - while the famous flea market of St Ouen is within easy reach at the weekend.
- The Verrières golf course is opposite the house: play a round or just practise your drives.
- Walk in peace for miles in the vast Forest of Verrières without seeing a soul and, perched up high, admire the views over the the surrounding countryside. Walk or bicycle along the stunning protected Bièvre valley, another slice of paradise.
- Royal memories are legion here: the Toile de Jouy manufacturing museum, which supplied Marie-Antoinette with fabrics, is 8km away; Versailles is 12km (don't miss the King's potager); further south are the stunning Château and water gardens of Courances.
- The ceramics museum at Sèvres is a treasure-house of amazing concoctions in porcelain and paint.
- The Château de Sceaux, 6km away, houses the local history museum and its superb French-style park is a favourite destination for families and exercise fanatics. You can fish in the canals and ponds, too.
Have you visited La Candelaria?Tell us your thoughts.
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If Words Could Fly
This inspiring and beautiful 3D poster was created in support of the people of Fukushima, Japan. Called 'Words can fly a thousand miles', the sentiment seems quite apt again following the Oklahoma Tornado.
The team of designers, based in Montreal, were inspired by the Japanese custom of Senbazuru that promises luck or a wish to anyone folding a thousand origami cranes.
Once complete, the team sough donations and handwritten messages to console and encourage people after the devastation. You can see it in progress here.
Credits: Creative Director: Kyosuke Nishida, Art Director: Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li Sui Fong, Designer: Dominic Liu, Photographer: Simon Duhamel. This project was realised with the help of Surface3 Design Office.


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WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - A Wausau high-tech business is now a year old. Collaborative Domestic Solution Center already has over 70 employees in Wausau's Dudley Tower, and they're expecting to add more.
Founder, President, and CEO William C. Robichaud, Sr says the company is definitely growing.Collaborative's Wausau operation was a team effort with the company, the city of Wausau, and Wisconsin's Economic Development Corporation. Governor Scott Walker says this has been a successful partnership. Over a year ago, Walker says CEO William Robichaud and Mayor Jim Tipple approached him with this concept.
Collaborative Domestic Solution Center specializes in technology for other businesses, including customized software and support.


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adidas Slim Fit Kick Pants
Comfortable and flattering, these kick pants by adidas are perfect for Zumba classes and beginner's yoga.
Featuring climalite® fabric, these pants are designed to sweep sweat away from your body, so no matter how hard you work you'll remain cool, dry and comfortable. An elasticised waistband with a drawcord tie personalises the fit, while the 3-Stripes branding is a classic adidas finish.
Wear these slim fit training pants with an adidas 'Prime' vest top and a comfy pair of trainers to keep you comfy and confident throughout your workouts.
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Dempsey Hill
Escape the city to this lush park
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Escape the city at this lush park filled with fine-dining restaurants, cafes, antique shops and gourmet grocers.
Many of the restaurants are quite expensive and attract a ladies-who-lunch type crowd, but there are a few exceptions like the Thai-German Tawandang Microbrewery and The Wine Company where you can buy a bottle for a few dollars more than retail price and partake at a table in their garden.
The restaurants are very spread out and definitely intended for people who have cars, but Dempsey Hill is only a few bus stops past the Botanic Gardens.
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KITCHENER, Ont. – The field is now set for the Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials next month in Winnipeg.
The final two spots on both the men's and women's side were wrapped up in Kitchener this past week with a few surprising teams, especially on the women's side – taking the next step in their curling careers. The biggest one came from Val Sweeting and her Edmonton rink, who upset two-time Scotties winner and former world champion Kelly Scott in the second qualifier.
"Based on where we were sitting coming in, we knew we had a good shot, we had a good start to the season and we just knew we had to play well," said Sweeting after the biggest win of her career.
Joanne Courtney is the second on the team – throwing third rocks – and says she thought the team was finally ready to make the next step going into the week.
"We've actually been playing quite consistently, having decent results on tour. We were close. We weren't winning, we weren't making semis, but we felt we were playing consistently and starting to play well," said Courtney."It's the biggest game any one of us has ever played in our entire lives and we were able to go out there, stay together and put together a game that was good enough to win."
Renee Sonnenberg of Grand Prairie, Alberta also advanced to the Trials by defeating Scott in the first qualifier. The 2006 Olympic bronze medalist, Shannon Kleibrink, and the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, Cheryl Bernard, were both unable to make it to the qualifying matches.
On the men's side, it was more of what people expected.
John Morris and his new rink from Kelowna, B.C., formerly led by Jim Cotter, who still throws skip stones, dominated all week, going undefeated.
The defending Brier champ Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie rink topped Brad Gushue of Newfoundland, 7-6 in the final qualifier.
"It feels like we've been here for a month, it really does," said Jacobs.
The event was a tough one for the team, having to play in the second qualifier after losing a sloppy game to Morris in the first, but Jacobs said that's just how they do things.
"We bounce back really, really well and I just think it's because we all have the same goal in mind and we all want to win so badly that we'll do whatever it takes," said the 28-year-old skip. With their Brier dream already crossed off, Jacobs says they're ready for another accomplishment – Olympic gold.
"The Olympics and the Brier for me as far as goals, wanting to win and importance is 50/50. We've won the Brier; this [Olympics] is the next step. We want this really bad," he said. "You etch your mark in history when you win the Brier, but I think you do that even moreso when you win an Olympic gold medal." Gushue knows what it means to be an Olympic champion.
He won it as a 25-year-old in 2006, alongside veteran Russ Howard, Mark Nichols and Jamie Korab. Fast-forward eight years later, Gushue has a completely new – and younger – team.
Third Brett Gallant, 23, second Adam Casey, 24, and lead Geoff Walker, 27, make up one of the youngest squads in curling and Gushue says it will take time to click.
"This team wasn't probably ready to win this year anyway. We're still young, we still make stupid mistakes and it cost us this week," he said.
Having said that, Gushue likes the path they're on.
"I think we're only going to get better. I think there are a lot of teams out there right now that probably are on the downside of the longevity of their teams," said the owner of a Menchie's Frozen Yogurt franchise. "I think there's a lot of upside in our team and what we can do. We're going to regroup from this and learn from it and try to get a little bit better."
It's easy to see curling is going through a transitional period with younger teams like Jacobs and Rachel Homan quickly rising through the ranks. Yet a lot of the top rinks still have skips who are in their 40's or 50's, namely Glenn Howard, Kevin Martin and Jeff Stoughton.
"There are a lot of good, young players [in the game], fortunately for me I have three of them on my team and I'm not that old myself," said Gushue.
Sweeting's rink is a youthful group as well but Courtney doesn't believe being young is an advantage when it comes to curling.
"There are two sides of the coin there," said the 24-year-old. "The older teams have a lot more experience in this type of setting – the arena, being on TV, being mic'd, all those type of things. I don't know really if age plays a ton."
The Roar of the Rings Olympic Trials run from Dec. 1-8 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg with complete coverage on TSN and TSN2.
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After its well-deserved plaudits at the 2012 World Whisky Awards it was only a matter of time before the Speyburn 25 got a bump, and this edition combines all of the great flavour of the earlier versions with a snazzy new look. The pack includes a pair of extendable cups for enjoying a dram outdoors. .
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The Deadliest Town in America
- 13 homicides in July - the most deadly month since a shooting spree in 1949
- Murder rate was ten times New York City in 2011 -- and on pace to be even higher this year
- More than half of children live below the poverty line as city is ravaged by drugs
- Police department forced to cut one third of officers in 2011 and arrests dropped to less than half of what they were in 2009
Camden, New Jersey, has long been one of the most dangerous places in America, but recent police cuts combined with the highest unemployment rate in New Jersey have made the city even deadlier.
This year there have been 39 murders in the city of 77,000 — on pace to break the all-time record set in 1995.
In 2011, the murder rate was ten times than that of New York City and 30 percent higher than New Orleans, Louisiana, the most dangerous large city in the nation.
Camden was once a bustling industrial town but drugs and alcohol abuse now run rife in an area that is economically deprived. More than half of all children live below the poverty line.
The city finds itself in the midst of a drug war as unemployed young men with nothing to lose battle for territory across the city.
Large gang networks are competing with local drug deals and the results of always violent.
Last month, 27-year-old Robert Carstarphen was shot dead in an alley during a fight over drug dealing territory between members of the Bloods street gang. The following day, two more men were dead after a retaliation hit.
The deaths brought the total number of homicides for July to 13 – making the month the city's worst since September 1949 when mass murderer Howard Unruh left the same number dead in a shooting spree.
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I made this tonight to serve alongside some grilled salmon. I followed the recipe exactly, except I used dried parsley instead of fresh (only about a tablespoon) and added some sliced green onions I had on hand. Delicious and hearty, and I loved all the colors and textures in the salad.
Potato and Vegetable Salad with Mustard Ranch
skspillman Posted: 08/01/12
beachlife07 Posted: 07/19/12
Made this last night for a cool make ahead dinner with a simple grilled salmon and a tomato and green bean salad. We didn't miss the mayo a bit even though "Mom's famous potato salad" had tons of full fat Hellman's. The fresh herbs made it very summery! I did omit the red pepper due to personal preference. Would definitely make it again.
ChefAmandaLynn Posted: 08/16/12
I really liked this salad as I hate mayo and never eat traditional potato salad, but this was a bright and fresh alternative. I used dried dill, but fresh chives. Would make this again for a BBQ or potluck.
BlueToBlue Posted: 11/18/12Fremont, CA
Meh. This was just okay. I even bought a whole quart of buttermilk (the only size of buttermilk sold around here) for the scant 1/4 cup called for in the recipe. Don't bother. There are much better potato salad recipes on CookingLight.com that don't call for buttermilk (and what are you going to do with the remaining 3 3/4 cups of it).


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NewPages Book Reviews
May 1, 2009
The Conqueror :: Mosquito :: American Fractal :: Words Overflown by Stars :: Persephone :: The Accordionist's Son :: Then, a Thousand Crows :: A Disposition for Shininess :: Drift and Swerve
The Conqueror
Novel by Jan Kjærstad
Translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland
Open Letter, February 2009
Hardcover: 481pp; $17.95
Review by Rav Grewal-Kök
I read the opening scene of The Conqueror, the second novel in a trilogy by the Norwegian writer Jan Kjærstad, with relief. The trilogy depicts the life of Jonas Wergeland, an ordinary boy from an undistinguished Oslo neighborhood, who rises to national and even international fame as a television personality. In the 600 pages of the first novel in the series, The Seducer, we read of Jonas's travels, triumphs, and yes, seductions (there are many, from a beautiful and accomplished cast of women to, eventually, an entire nation transfixed by his documentaries). Jonas is equipped with a magic penis, a set of memorized quotations from books he hasn't read, a silver thread in his spine, a crystal prism in his pocket, and an unerring eye for great art. He can't go wrong. The Seducer is a vast and undeniably ambitious novel, but also, in its unremitting catalog of the successes of its hero, a little wearying.
So it was with some apprehension that I turned to its sequel. I needn't have worried. From the first sentence – "'I thought he was going to rape me,' the woman said, reporting the incident later" – it's clear that this novel will deliver a very different view of Jonas's life. Over the next four pages a drunken Jonas vomits over his cabdriver, a young woman, who'd hitherto been one of Jonas's many admirers, boasts of killing a man, delivers a few crude remarks, and collapses, nearly comatose on a sidewalk. We soon discover that the unnamed and admiring narrator of The Seducer has been replaced by another, a mysterious, black-clad woman with scarred hands who carries "an odor reminiscent of burnt horn." This strange figure may be no more reliable than her predecessor, but she, at least, isn't interested in hagiography.
In The Seducer, we encountered a series of attractive characters: a charismatic actor who encourages Jonas to pursue a career in television, a doting grandfather, and a precocious childhood friend. In The Conqueror, we learn that the actor is a pederast, and the grandfather a wartime collaborator. Jonas's childhood friend, Nefertiti, vanishes entirely; there's a replacement, Little Eagle, but that friendship ends when Jonas steals the boy's stamp collection.
There's still plenty of sex in The Conqueror, but it's not often the transformative experience it was in the original. Instead, Jonas's couplings are marred by more than a hint of coercion, and a bout of gonorrhea. The silver thread in Jonas's spine becomes a piece of dragon horn, the crystal prism in his pocket a hockey puck, and his magic penis a standard one. In both novels, Jonas's wife, Margrete, is murdered the night he returns from a trip abroad. In the first, Jonas is overcome with regret that he left her alone. In the second, Jonas has a history of jealous violence that culminates when he shoots Margrete with his grandfather's Luger. The tale depends on the teller, after all.
The Conqueror is not a perfect novel (in fairness, no book, or three books, of this length and scope could be). Though it is impressively structured, with the events of Jonas's life linked one to the next by theme, symbol, emotion, color and dream, rather than anything so prosaic as time, the very intricacy of that structure can undermine the narrative's momentum. We are also asked a few too many rhetorical questions ("How does one become a murderer?" "How does one become a conqueror?" "Is this, then, where the story of his jealousy begins?").
And often, after Kjærstad attempts a joke, I wished he hadn't. On a visit to Istanbul, the city where he was conceived, Jonas looks on the Golden Horn, the strait of the Bosphorus that divides Europe and Asia, and notes that "his father must have had 'a golden horn' on that very night, since it had expelled the spermatozoa that fertilized his mother's egg" (I hope this sentence reads better in the Norwegian; I suspect not, however, for later on that same page Kjærstad has Jonas deliver an equally lame joke in a neutral language: "Ich bin ein Byzantiner," Jonas says, excited as he is by the activity on the harbor).
But Kjærstad also affords Jonas moments of clarity and insight, and these win out:
Jonas Wergeland never really rid himself of the fatal suspicion that you had to be a criminal to be a good storyteller. Or that behind the best stories there was always a hurt, a wound, much in the same way as a foreign body will, in the course of time, cause an oyster to make a pearl; which, when you get right down to it, means that a pearl is disease transformed into beauty.
In reading the narratives of Jonas Wergeland's life, perhaps it's best to trust no one thread, but the whole. Jonas is as much villain as hero, mediocrity as genius, liar as visionary, conqueror as seducer. And we don't yet have the whole story. Open Letter will issue The Discoverer, the final volume of Kjærstad's trilogy, this August. It's no small praise that, though I've already followed Jonas's exploits for 1100 pages, I'm looking forward to it.
Novel by Roma Tearne
Europa Editions, July 2008
Paperback: 304pp; $16.95
Review by Laura Di Giovine
The mosquito season never seems to end in Sri Lanka; the swarms, "deadly as flying needles," are always lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike. Frequently referenced as a harbinger of death and strife, the image of the mosquito figures prominently in Mosquito, Roma Tearne's eloquent and moving novel of love in war-torn Sri Lanka.
It's 1996 and after years living in London as a successful writer, Theo Samarajeeva has returned to his native Sri Lanka at the height of the 10-year civil unrest between the majority population of the Singhalese and the Tamils, the largest ethnic minority. Haunted by the death of his murdered British wife, Theo is nursing his heartache in a small town in the corner of the island. Comforted by his manservant Sugi, Theo spends his days working on his fourth novel and cultivating a friendship with a young local girl, Nulani Mendis, whose family has been torn apart by the war. Nulani is a talented artist and sketches Theo on her daily visits; their friendship eventually blossoms into a love that takes the middle-aged writer by surprise. Their love is rendered exquisitely through author Tearne's powerful language and defined, as is so often the case, by moments of absence:
Later, after they had hung the paintings and the girl had gone home, Theo went back to look at them. Paint and linseed oil gathered in the room where they were hung and her presence was everywhere. Again he felt the dull ache of it. He remembered her, in her red dress, with patches of rain falling on it, looking at him, alert as a bird that had evaded a storm.
Tearne's evocative prose effectively captures the longing Theo feels for Nulani, for his youth and for the quiet beauty of his country, before it was wracked by violence and bloodshed. Tragically, while their romance is still in early bloom, Theo is captured by the government and Nulani is forced into exile in London, where the power of her art becomes fully realized. Brutally tortured by both sides, Theo becomes a painful metaphor for Sri Lanka, revealing the senseless violence that her people inflict against themselves.
Tearne also draws the reader into the story through the characters' pain, using powerful and visceral imagery. Held hostage in the deep jungle, Theo's fear is raw and unchecked. We experience his terror through the landscape: "The river running through parts of the jungle was a wide gaping mouth. It cut deep into the interior like a gangrenous wound, neglected and rotten." We witness a more quiet despair in Nulani, but the extent of her sorrow is evoked on her canvases, for all to see: "Darkness and light, together in the most unlikely place of entombment, appeared to sink to the depths of the earth . . . [T]he images were of carefully drawn objects, glimpsed and then rubbed out even at the moment of recognition; hinting at the ways in which the past inhabits us, shaping us at some level hovering below conscious thought." When after four years of captivity Theo returns home, his love for Nulani is again marked by loss. Tearne's prose here, as throughout, is crafted with the skillful touch of a painter's brush:
After the Tamil boy dropped him at the border, he had simply headed for the sea, the sound of it, the smell of it. His heart had yearned for the girl; his arms had ached with the need to hold her. But now all he had was a pair of broken straw sandals and a notebook lying open with all its stories gone. The wind had whisked them away; the rain had washed them out. Time had rendered them useless, making them old stories from long ago.
Despite the conflict throughout Sri Lanka, Theo is drawn to his homeland and its terrifying beauty again and again, his fervor ebbing and flowing like the mosquito seasons. In his writings, he says that "for all of history and all over the globe the mosquito has been a nuisance, a pain and the angel of death." And yet, after the pain of the insect's sting comes the promise of healing. Theo firmly believes that "underneath the mess they had created for themselves, the land . . . was still capable of healing. One day it would go back to what it had been before." Just as Theo is held captive by his country (in both senses of the word), Nulani is compelled to leave and pick up the pieces of her life abroad, mimicking Theo's exodus from the U.K. to Sri Lanka at the novel's beginning. In this sense, they are two halves of the same self. Whether they will reunite is at the crux of Mosquito and Tearne depicts this dance with a lyricism that belies the sheer horror of their experiences.
Sri Lankans have experienced unspeakable traumas throughout their country's civil war, but Tearne shows that they are as extraordinary and resilient as one of Nulani's paintings. Thought-provoking and beautifully written, Mosquito is a stunning and bittersweet portrait of a shipwrecked land, torn by the dualistic ideologies of a post-colonial people.
American Fractal
Poems by Timothy Green
Red Hen Press, February 2009
Paperback: 102pp; $18.95
Review by Jeanne M. Lesinski
Timothy Green's debut collection of verse, American Fractal, is named for the concept of order existing within what appears to be randomness that mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot developed in fractal geometry. Although his new way of perceiving relationships has revolutionized modern science, initially others were not able to "see" what Mandelbrot discerned and represented in unconventional mathematical formulas. As a poet, Green also challenges readers to see with him the patterns he has discovered and recreated in this aptly named collection of fifty poems in five sections.
His images deal with universal themes: human relationships with other humans, with nature, with the universe; the topical and the timeless; the light and the dark; the abstract and concrete. The nimble wordplay and light tone of "Saddled" juxtaposes the equally playful yet somber "The Urge to Break Things," the surrealism of "Pot Luck" somehow matches the surrealism (or hyper-realism?) of "Man Auctions Ad Space on Forehead," and the punch line of "A Constant Lack of Hunger" made this reader groan.
As is always true, readers will gravitate toward individual favorites. Mine include "On the Phone My Mother," in which the whistling air escaping from the balloons captures the tension of my mother-child relationship, and "American Fractal" and "Bending of Birches," which number among the handful of poems that exemplify the fractal structure of reiteration and resonate at different frequencies upon repeated readings. Because Andrew Kozma provides an interesting appreciation of the title poem in his review in American Book Review (americanbookreview.org), let's focus instead on "Bending of Birches." It begins with the epigraph "after a string arrangement after Frost," then
the circles the stagelights the outline of a body of
an old man outlined by a body by a spotlight & one
might call that light a halo but it extends further
deeper & think: it is written of the body this buoyancy
like wood what floats is carried away this man in the
halo call him god call him peter he lifts his bow
tucks the cello between his legs like a lover like a child to
bed & then his fingers on the strings one might call
. . .
things everything else swirling fluttering
The poem mingles aural and visual music: The caesurae [unable to be reproduced here] audibly create rhythm, while visually recalling the fragments of the fractal that are repeatedly broken down into tinier fragments. Later, the viewer encounters a story within a story, which is another fractal aspect, as well as circular imagery (halos, reverberations, bends of backs and notes, spotlights, clusters), light (spotlights, halos, dust motes in track lighting), upward movement (buoyancy like wood, plucked up, bounce of the horsehair bow, lifting of leaves, swirling, fluttering). Throughout, Green has entwined the images that play so well off each other in various associations into beautiful, lingering poignancy.
As Mandelbrot and Green have discovered, what appears to be chaotic may, in fact, only seem chaotic because viewers lack the ability to perceive the underlying pattern. This challenge to order chaos, or at least follow the poet's efforts to do so, exists for readers of modern poetry, who may or may not be able to follow the associative jumps the poet makes, especially when poems stretch into the surreal or into personal mythology. Yet, the chance for reward is worth the effort in general and in particular when it applies to American Fractal.
Words Overflown by Stars
Creative Writing Instruction and Insight
from the Vermont
College MFA Program
Edited by David Jauss
Writer's Digest Books, January 2009
Paperback: 480pp; $16.99
Review by John Madera
Words Overflown by Stars is a mammoth-sized compendium of thirty-two essays on the craft of writing fiction and poetry. At their best, these essays, culled mainly from lectures, are transcriptions of teachers compassionately addressing their students, inviting them to dig beneath the surface of language, to sharpen all of their senses as they write and read, to cross boundaries, to challenge their comfort zones, to write and rewrite and rewrite again.
It's divided equally into two sections: prose and poetry. Considering that any serious writer recognizes the fuzzy borders between the two, the book's overall feel would have been better had the essays been ordered in some unique way – taking the reader on some kind of journey – or simply alphabetically. Prose is often privileged over poetry and I wonder why David Jauss, the editor, didn't care to challenge this bias. The book's hierarchical organization is doubly ironic since the most provocative and instructive essays may be found in the poetry section.
Much of the prose essays cover familiar territory, namely, reminiscence, point of view, novel and short story structure, the porous membrane between fiction and memoir, the porous membrane between dreams and waking life, the porous membrane between fact and fantasy. In spite of the rather wearying, if competently written, explication found in the prose essays, there is some insightful commentary. For instance, there's Camoin's rumination on misreading, the reading of which complicated things greatly in writing this review. He posits:
Every reading of a book is different, and all readings are misreadings – inadequate readings, incomplete readings, incompetent readings. The categories overlap in unpredictable ways . . . The question becomes how to misread, in what manner we wander through a narrative, and how to take such wandering into account when we write.
So at the risk of offering you a "misreading" of Words Overflown by Stars, I'll present some highlights, that is, articles that focus on the "acoustic properties" of language, the art of neither showing nor telling, the topology of poetry and prose, and that deviate from conventional pedagogy. Brett Lott focuses on "those three numbingly nondescript syllables that together only use up three vowels and three consonants": a, the, and this. Here we learn that "wonder and reverence" are the "twin dynamos that generate the art of writing" and that
in caring for the word, in all its light and texture and density and purpose, we see ourselves as the servants to the word we are called to be as writers . . . that even the single letter a is worthy of our carrying, through the long and arduous and fulfilling and ill-attended parade our writing lives will be, as though it were a golden crown on a tufted velvet pillow, and not so many yards of gravel dumped on a roadbed. Our ideas, ambitions, our intellect truly are, after all, nothing more than paper floats. The word came before us, and will live on after us, whether that word be a single timorous letter or a polysyllabic fiesta.
Lott's celebration of the word stands in stark contrast to Camoin's idea that "[w]e have to take the world into account, pretend that it is real, that it exists before language and more or less independent of words." I'm tempted to extrapolate more of Camoin's essay as he explores how aspects of the novel may be likened to geology, how it depicts life as sediment. But this idea is further excavated in Natasha Sajé's sparkling essay on how the study of etymology, "the medium through which constellations of power shape the true and the false," may deepen the meaning of, increase the layers in one's writing.
Other excellent essays from the poetry section include Jack Meyer's, which uses the "behavior of atoms to the works of nature to the formation of galaxies" as metaphors of creativity. Mary Ruefle's wildly discursive piece, pieces its argument together from a wide range of discourses including phenomenology and semiotics. Betsy Sholl's essay explores stuttering as both a metaphor and a means of building a work. Its illuminating take on line breaks, caesuras, and white spaces are echoed and further developed in Leslie Ullman's meditation on silence in poems. Richard Jackson's essay reaches for the ineffable in its myriad forms. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Justice, and Jean Valentine form the centerpiece for a race around the clock in Nancy Eimers's reflection on poetry and time.
Robin Behn's wonderful essay on punctuation – its cutesy asides notwithstanding – deserves special attention. Beginning with an examination of music and dance notation, swimming diagrams, and linguistic recording methods, she perceptively analyzes deviations, inspired uses and takes, and inventions of punctuation in a number of poems.
But perhaps the best advice in Words Overflown by Stars comes from "If You Have to Be Sure Don't Write: Poetry and Self-Doubt." After offering some strategies for circumventing paralysis before the page, David Wojahn writes: "These are the daily doubts, the ongoing doubts, but ultimately they are trivial. You learn to write better by rewriting. You conquer writer's block by writing. You overcome careerism by attending to writing and not to career." And, I'll add, you overcome your escape to and reliance on books on writing craft by writing and rewriting and rewriting.
While the essays as a whole engage the reader with their scholarly, without being stuffy, content, their often inspirational tone, and their understanding of the very real challenges writers face, the question remains whether it's worth adding this book to your library. Yes, if you're willing to tear it in half and send the recycled bits back to be pulped.
Poetry by Lyn Lifshin
Red Hen Press, October 2008
Paperback: 184pp; $20.95
Review by Vince Corvaia
It says on the "About the Author" page at the back of Persephone that "Lyn Lifshin has written more than 120 books." I want to read all of them. Here is not only a prolific but gifted and generous poet. In Persephone alone, Lifshin offers 189 poems, every one of them skillfully crafted and emotionally resonant. Some of them are overwhelming.
The book is broken up into ten sections or themes, ranging from the personal loss of one's mother to the national tragedy that was 9/11. Loss is prevalent throughout Persephone, even the loss of a limb in several poems, such as the excellent "Though I Didn't See It," about the time "Paul / McCartney's wife / took off her leg / on Larry King." The speaker doesn't "find it strange or / gruesome," though some do. The end of the poem, which introduces us to a Nam vet the speaker knew who lost a leg overseas, brings the poem to a powerful and touching close.
Perhaps the most effective and moving poem of the bunch is in the section called "Bay of Love and Sorrow: Mother Poems." It's called "My Mother Hated the Song of the Whales," and it brought tears to this rugged reviewer's eyes:
I could not believe my mother,
who called me five times a day sometimes,
wouldn't always be there, on the phone, ready to
come and take care of me when I had the flu.
. . .
"Look," my mother said, "I've hardly had
to sit down, I think I'm getting stronger."
But of course she isn't, and for anyone who has recently lost a parent, this is rough (but rewarding) going.
Certain images recur throughout, none so prominent as roses or the color rose. In "On the Shortest Day of the Year," a woman passes "black ruby roses" and the speaker imagines "those tissue thin roses." In "Lips," we find a symbolic "raft of roses," "a sea of / roses." Roses represent life, but life in its most delicate and transitory state. Black roses reappear in "Trying to Write the Blue Out of Me," growing "in those / holes where you yanked / the roots out."
They are omnipresent, like Lifshin's prodigious body of work itself.
The Accordionist's Son
Novel by Bernardo Atxaga
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Graywolf Press, February 2009
Hardcover: 370pp; $25.00
Review by Jason Hinkley
Bernardo Atxaga's latest novel, The Accordionist's Son, aims to expose the effects that the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath had on the collective conscious of the Basque people. However, it is not a novel of the war, nor is it record of the clandestine resistance that followed. It is a novel of a people and a place, about a way of living life that vanishes as soon as it hits the page. Into this world Atxaga has carefully injected the struggles and sufferings that can befall the oppressed. That he does so without sacrificing any of the everyday beauty that he has found in his people and their land is a testament to his power as a storyteller.
Set mostly in Franco, Spain, a generation after the reign had firmly established power, The Accordionist's Son charts the protagonist's, David's, coming of age in the heart of Basque country. As he grows, he divides his time between his maternal uncle's ancestral farm and the rapidly modernizing village that his parents call home – two worlds that become increasingly hard to reconcile as time passes. Even as the protective sphere of childhood is pieced by the pressures of the outside world, David's internal angst is increasingly being caused by events that occurred long before he was born. He slowly begins to discover below the surface of his ever changing world lies the unrecorded horrors of recent history:
The story he told me that day – I would say – led me to suspect Angel of having been involved during the war in persecutions and executions, something for which no adolescent is prepared, however cool his relationship with his father might be. But when I think about it now, I believe he was right: if I hadn't had those suspicions about Angel, I would never have struggled. If I hadn't struggled, I would never have become strong. If I hadn't become strong, I would never have been able to move on.
Atxaga artfully weaves this struggle to cope with historical and familial shame into the character development of his young protagonist. This subtly gives a voice to a collective cultural burden – to keep the history of the suffering from vanishing without being consumed by it. From David's suspicions another world emerges, where the ghosts of the war refuse to stay dead and familial guilt becomes unavoidable. In his struggle to move on, he develops new ways of coping with the silence and begins to recognize the same burden of history in those around him:
I watched him stirring his coffee. With his glasses, his thin face, and his cigarette, he seemed to be the man I was used to seeing, our science teacher. But beneath that appearance, I was beginning to glimpse a second Cesar, who was looking with his Second Eyes and speaking with his Second Tongue.
With his "Second World" evermore present and the once edenic Obaba unbearably jaded, David turns irreversibly away from the official version of history. Using David's "Second World" Ataxga tells the story that cannot be told on the surface; the story of what happens when victims and victors, the oppressed and the oppressors all live across the street. The conceit of David's "Second World" adds an incredible amount of psychological depth to the narrative, emotionally charging everyday interaction with the struggle to contain the collective secrets of Obaba.
In employing this layered and complex narrative, Bernardo Atxaga brings the recent past to light without diminishing the mysteriously foreign and beautiful world that he has created. And it is another world that Atxaga has created, so particular in the details of both the land and its inhabitants that Obaba feels organic like few fictional worlds have. Atxaga's ability to so effectively evoke the feelings of place gives the town of Obaba a synecdochic effect – Obaba is Franco, Spain in the same way that William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County is the post-Reconstruction South and Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo is Latin America. Such mastery of place has allowed Atxaga to create a living record of this untold history, one above and beyond what even the best revisionist historicist could hope to accomplish.
Then, a Thousand Crows
Poems by Keith Ratzlaff
Anhinga Press, April 2009
Paperback; 98pp; $15.00
Review by Roy Wang
Keith Ratzlaff would like some answers. Or perhaps he would like a world that didn't need so much explaining. This collection of anecdotes and meditations, despite not being dramatically questioning, still seem to present the ghost of "I don't know why, do you?" From stories of misbehaving, fighting relatives to portraits of paintings in Amsterdam, a current of surprise runs through the plain text and action that reminds us that there are things worth knowing before we pass judgment on our neighbors.
There are many poems referencing other poets and artists, a manifestation of where many search for truth. However, these poems often stray from anything resembling classic ekphrasis, and often show a more interesting perspective, as in "On a Snowy Morning I Think of Michelangelo":
But imagine it, the first great snowman
of the High Renaissance. Piero's giggle,
then his heartbreak as he watched it melt –
which probably wasn't the point at first
In most of the poems, the description tends to be fairly general; we have very little of the close-up rendering of detail. This is a fairly common method of 'being bleak'; however, it is worth noting the exception:
She's sure this is the best photograph
she's ever taken – the illusion
of floating above her mother
like an airship, cutting her
off at the knees, off at the forehead
the rabbit's black fur
echoing her mother's storm of hair,
the animal small, her mother's hands
large and muscular like the hands
Leonardo and Picasso gave women.
There's so much energy there, it would have been nice to see more throughout the book. These departures from the overall feel have greater significance for their rarity though, and when we encounter a break from the norm, we get the feeling there's something genuinely personal or important going on for the author.
As another example: despite most of these poems being told in the first-person, the speaker is a fairly passive observer, recalling actions at most. It gives the illusion of straight narrative, judgments rendered only in the manner of telling. However, in "What Kind of Guy are You?" we finally get the speaker to just come out and tells us why he isn't donating money to a telephone solicitor for Vietnam Vets, and the effects are wrenching:
I'm the kind of guy who sits so quietly
that yesterday in the park
a squirrel nearly ran up my leg.
I don't even stand up for the national anthem,
. . .
And I'm the kind of guy who wants to be
like my cat Dudley, how every night
he claims the pillow at my wife's head –
as he has for fifteen years – sleeping there,
touching her hair, as all my passive,
crippled life I've wished I could.
Mixing highlights into the plain style is a real talent, and Ratzlaff's ear serves him well in this. We get some moments that don't quite work, where he's trying too hard, but for the most part, he pulls it off with enough grace that you barely notice anything but the effect. Consider "Almost Ending with a Line from Wang Wei":
A block from the Christian school
five kids count to three
and yell "fuck" in unison,
the way a choir might
if the choir were Finnish
and yelling "fuck."
The final section of the book intensifies appeals to the Chinese poets, and of course calls up the stoicism Ratzlaff is advocating in the absence of answers after meandering through the first two parts. It reminds that our shortcomings are not depressing, but just require an enduring search, almost contracting with us that he will maintain it if we will.
A Disposition for Shininess
Poems by Arisa White
Factory Hollow Press, 2008
Chapbook: 18pp; $7.00
Review by Cynthia Reeser
In Arisa White's debut collection, A Disposition for Shininess, family eclipses mere flesh and blood. Siblings are a unit that both torture and uplift one another, come what may in the strange universe of adults. White's observations of family dynamics gain interpretive momentum as the reader progresses through this slim volume of nine poems.
The six-part title poem contains a narrative embedded in imagery that works to inform the collection as a whole. Siblings dwell within the realm of a mother whose boyfriend redefines their cohesion as a family unit:
He rarely greets us –
what's the point of saying hello over again?
He stays more nights, his clothes find a place
in her closets. This is the beast
crawling down the stalk:
Our doors are not locked to it,
morning or night it has welcome.
No choice to pretend we are not home
White probes the problem of what can children do to compete with a new adult figure, suddenly present, who gradually leverages a mother's affection away from her children. She asks, "Who are we to rid her of her glass slippers, / Huxtability and thereafter?"
The poems unfold to reveal layers of family dynamics, most of which are bound up in the lives of siblings. In "To You, Named the Messenger of God," the cohesion of sibs is revealed in full flower. The seven children are born with their own set of difficulties to weather and endure; but under White's pen, each child eclipses those troubles backed by the love of family:
Nigel arrived on the 12th toll of golden bells, and you, Uriah
ride a love inexhaustible, inducible as Jah or art; we her seven wonders or sins.
. . .
jambeauagainst collisions come low. Uriah, you are protected in Ibert's
prayers, in Jamar's, Shaquana's eyes your beauty's given back. You brown in Nigel's sun-soaked scales and you string a psalm from Kayana's water-vowels.
An endearing love is revealed that makes up for its lack from parental figures; where a mother's love has grown chilly and distant ("For each year the wish for her to love me is broken / and the cast is old and soiled around my chest") a philia takes its place. Children look out for one another, become each other's greatest friends and allies.
White's gift for pushing lyricism toward meaning unfolds throughout the collection; form informs content, whether through triplets or free verse, and the often striking observations give this poet a unique flavor all her own. Some lines stick and ramble around in the reader's mind persistently ("our customs to the dust we pirouette down") and often speak to transition, its proper care and handling. White's petite debut collection leaves the reader wanting more from this promising poet, and waiting for her next collection.
Drift and Swerve
Stories by Samuel Ligon
Autumn House Press, March 2009
Paperback: 180pp; $17.95
Review by Ryan Call
Drift and Swerve, Samuel Ligon's second book and winner of the 2008 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, takes its title from the second piece in the collection, a road trip story about a family traveling behind a drunk driver as they return home after visiting their dying grandmother. While the family bickers, the drunk driver grows more erratic, weaving across the road, first lazily and then desperately, before wrecking the car into an enormous concrete ditch. Each family member reacts differently to the nearly fatal accident: the mother cradles the injured drunk's head against her body to comfort him; the father weakly stands to the side with a blanket, pretending to offer help; and the children, disappointed because the man is not dead, go sliding through the mud "as if it were winter and the drainage ditch a frozen over river."
The doomed path of the drunk driver characterizes the terrible attraction of the work in this collection. Reading Ligon's stories is much like searching for internet videos of people being physically injured, accidentally or otherwise: you know you shouldn't be watching, but you can't help it. Whether you're reading the few linked stories about Nikki, a wandering young woman who can't seem to escape the surging violence of her life, or the story of Henry, the boy who is disciplined by his elderly teacher for drawing a swastika at the bottom of a quiz, you can sense running throughout the book the hysteria of characters who see disaster approaching and can do nothing to escape it.
Two stories in particular especially deserve mention here, as they embody this drift and swerve: the first, "Something Awful," quietly floats to its sad conclusion, while "Vandals" leaps into an altogether new, and disturbing realm of horror.
In "Something Awful," Jack and his wife Elaine visit with two other couples to drink, smoke pot, and take part in a painful social game, which requires everyone to confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. Throughout the evening, Jack cannot keep himself from leering at Sally, his neighbor's wife. While he makes drinks in the kitchen, Sally propositions him in return, grinding her body against his, and despite the fact that Jack "never wanted to be the kind of guy who cheats on his wife," he later faces the consequences of his lust: Sally tells her own version of what happened in the kitchen, and Jack suddenly finds himself to be the most awful person of the night.
In "Vandals," Hugh booby-traps a tree in his yard to teach a lesson to the teenagers who have been vandalizing his property for the past few months. The story begins calmly enough until the teens arrive at night in their station wagon, and Hugh, "hungry for the beautiful crashing sounds of revenge," sends tumbling down the concrete blocks and crates of railroad spikes he's stockpiled up in the tree only to realize that what he wanted isn't exactly what he's received:
Time changes after that, after it starts to happen. Sounds accumulate. Glass and metal. The back block bounces off the roof of the wagon, but the middle one crashes right through the windshield, followed by the dull thud of the front block landing on the hood, where it seems to be firmly lodged. Hugh upends the crate of spikes, and then the car is moving, fishtailing in the dirt. Screams come from inside, but Hugh doesn't register words, just the sounds of startled fear as the wagon drunkenly weaves away from him, the tires spinning up a roostertail of dust and gravel.
As the ensuing chaos mounts, Hugh impossibly tries to make right what he's done to the teenagers, but amidst the stink of gore, the flashing lights of the ambulance and police cruisers, the insane sobbing of his wife Roberta, he can only fall back on the part he's so used to playing: that of the victim. It's an empty ruse, one that might temporarily fool the others who come to help, but he and Roberta know the full extent of his guilt. In the aftermath of the accident, Hugh can do nothing but turn the hot water to full blast and drag Roberta into the shower with him to wash away the blood that's caked onto their bodies.
What makes "Vandals" remarkable is that scene of frantic cleansing in the bathroom; it is an example of Samuel Ligon's thoughtful tendency to project his characters' lives beyond the final sentences of the text. This is what gives Drift and Swerve its emotional weight: these characters, regardless of the hard circumstances they've suddenly fallen into, try somehow to recover and carry on.


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Job posted on August 22, 2014
The National Society has reopened its search for a talented and forward-thinking library professional to serve as an integral part of the management team of the DAR Library.
We are looking for an experienced professional who will have the opportunity to work closely with the Library Director to develop and carry out its plans, policies and delivery of programs and services offered at the Library; who will get to manage and oversee the operation of the reference desk and staff, and will help to ensure the smooth functioning of the Library and overall department operations.
Job posted on August 27, 2014
The National Society has an immediate full-time opening for a Historian in the Office of the Historian General.
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After the big meal and time with family and friends many spent the Thanksgiving weekend hitting the stores for holiday shopping.
More than 141 million people shopped Thursday through Sunday, including 45 million on Thanksgiving day.
That's up 30 percent from last year according to the National Retail Federation.
On Black Friday, over three million more shopped this year than last.
Earlier Thanksgiving hours did have an impact, Shoppertrak says nearly $10 billion was spent nationwide Friday, a drop of 13 percent from 2012.
Overall sales totaled $57 billion.
Up two percent from last year.
on-line sales were up overall, as well.
Another National Retail Federation survey says 131 million shoppers expected to go online during today's cyber Monday deals.
That's double the 59 million people estimated to have shopped online over the actual weekend.
All those sales could mean a big pay day for charities if people use certain web sites.
The friends of the Moline Public Library use Goodsearch.com.
The web site gets paid for referring visitors to retailers like Amazon and Best Buy.
You just select which charity you're supporting and shop like normal, a percentage goes back to your charity of choice.
"This is just another way, another avenue to earn money for usage by the library staff," says board member Sally Rylander.
She has donated her time to the Friends of the Moline Public Library for at least a decade now. She helps run the store to fund library needs.
"We just try to make money for doing you know all the good things that the Friends do for the library and every penny helps," says Rylander.
One of the newer ways is using a web site, Goodsearch.com. Users select which participating charity they're supporting, and then search or shop.
"The last four years there's been no money in the city budget to provide programs at the library, so it's based all on donations," says Friends liaison Lisa Powell Williams.
She says the group has used Goodsearch for the last two years. It has earned about $700 each year.
"One huge book sale in addition to the bookstore operation that's open 6 days a week here," says Powell Williams.
It's fundraising with no cost or work on the library's end other than setting up the account.
"The idea came from a staff member who asked why aren't we doing this," says Powell Williams.
Rylander doesn't use the site herself, "I'm not a computer person."
As a retired first grade teacher, she says reading is essential and libraries are essential at helping teach the skill.
"In first and second grade you teach them and from third grade on, they read to learn, so they have a to get a good start," says Rylander.
Without reading, how can you decide what to buy for a present this year?
"It's very painless and it makes you feel good, by giving back," says Powell Williams.
There are dozens of Quad City non-profits registered on Goodsearch.
The web site works year round, so whether you're buying a present online, or just searching the web, your money and your time can benefit a charity at no cost to you.
Friends of the Moline Public Library gave $30,000 back to the library this year.
The money was raised from a combination of efforts.
Book sales and Birdies for Charity as well as Goodsearch.
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Wednesday, Jul 10, 2013
7:30 PM to 9 PM
Join us for a peaceful paddle on the beautiful George H. Sparks Reservoir as the sun sets and we refresh ourselves in preparation for the end of the work week. You may choose a canoe or kayak for this program. Open to anyone 16 or older who can swim and children 6 or over who can swim and are accompanied by an adult. Register in advance.
$20 includes boat, PFD and paddle. $5 parking.
Sweetwater Creek State Park
1750 Mt. Vernon Road
Lithia Springs, GA 30122
GPS Coordinates:
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Take I-20 west from Atlanta, exit #44 at Thornton Road, turn left and go 1/4 mile. Turn right on Blairs Bridge Road. After 2 miles, turn left on Mount Vernon Road and proceed to the park.
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Cured salmon makes a lovely appetizer. This technique, from Executive Chef Cal Stamenov of Bernardus Lodge, is really quite simple, featuring thin slices of tender salmon atop a bed of tabouli (a great recipe in its own right). For a cocktail party, serve the pepper salmon on buttered toast triangles, garnish with a sprig of dill or a few capers, and you have delectable hors d'oeuvres.
|2 tablespoons
|whole star anise pods (ground)
|2 cups
|kosher or sea salt
|1 cup
|brown sugar (packed)
|fresh salmon fillet, 2 to 2-1/2 pounds (skin on, pin bones removed)
|Freshly ground black pepper
|10-ounce box couscous
|Juice of 3 whole limes
|1/2 cup
|extra-virgin olive oil
|cucumber (diced)
|2 large
|tomatoes (diced)
|1 cup
|chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
|1/4 cup
|chopped fresh mint
|1/4 cup
|chopped fresh dill
|Salt, freshly ground black pepper, and cayenne pepper (to taste)
|extra-virgin olive oil (as garnish)
Pepper Salmon: In a small spice grinder, finely grind the star anise. Combine with the salt and brown sugar, and blend completely.
Spread 1 cup of the salt mixture in a large shallow pan big enough to hold the salmon fillet. Place the salmon, skin down, over the bed of salt. Cover the top of the salmon with the remaining salt mixture and spread evenly over the entire fillet. Cover the pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
After 48 hours, rinse the salmon with cold water to remove the salt. Dry the fillet with paper towels.
Cover the top of the fish with freshly ground black pepper. At this point, the cured salmon can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Tabbouleh Salad: Prepare the couscous according to the package directions.
In a large bowl combine the cooked couscous with the lime juice and olive oil. Add the cucumber, tomato, and herbs, and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste, then add cayenne pepper if desired.
To serve: Transfer the tabbouleh to a large platter. Thinly slice the cured pepper salmon and arrange on top of the salad. Garnish with drops of olive oil.
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Clermont power on at Exeter's expense
January 12, 2013
France international Wesley Fofana grabbed Clermont's opening try at the Stade Marcel Michelin
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Clermont Auvergne made it five wins from five in this season's Heineken Cup with a 46-3 demolition of Exeter at the Stade Marcel Michelin to power into the quarter-finals.
The French giants led 20-3 at the break thanks to tries from Wesley Fofana and Jean-Marcellin Buttin. Exeter fought bravely following the restart, but the pressure eventually told and Clermont ruthlessly completed the job with further touchdowns for Damien Chouly, David Skrela, Buttin and Napolioni Nalaga.
The victory, Clermont's 54th in a row at Stade Marcel Michellin, secures their place in the quarter-finals as Pool Five winners and they can ensure a home draw in their final group-stage match against the Scarlets.
Gareth Steenson had the opportunity to open the scoring after just two minutes at Stade Marcel Michelin but he miscued the simple penalty. He could have made amends minutes late but was again off target as the visitors failed to turn pressure into points. And he was punished for his inaccuracy as Parra opened his account following a Fofana break.
The France centre was next on the scoresheet. He launched the attack following Sitiveni Sivivatu's chip and finished it by collecting Regan King's inside pass. Parra made no mistake with the conversion and within a matter minutes the irrepressible hosts grabbed a second try.
Nalaga laid the foundations for the score with a powerful break in which he brushed off several defenders. It put the Chiefs on the back foot and swift hands from King and Chouly sent Buttin crashing over.
Parra continued his faultless performance in front of the posts with the conversion and a further penalty. But Steenson responded with the Chiefs' first points to bring the scores to 20-3 at the break.
Clermont instantly laid siege to the Chiefs' try line from the restart but Steenson pounced for an interception to alleviate the danger. He found support but the English club were unable to capitalise on the break out. After being awarded a penalty they opted for several scrums but were again unable to turn pressure into points.
They hammered Clermont's line and the hosts lost Thomas Domingo to the sin-bin but they were eventually penalised and the opportunity went begging.
Exeter continued to threaten as they dominated both territory and possession but they failed to get the scoreboard ticking. But following a scoreless 20 minutes, normal service resumed as Clermont manufactured a third try.
They left Exeter in disarray with a mesmerising backs move, the ball was maintained with Clermont's power runners crashing into the Chiefs wall and the pressure eventually told as Chouly stretched over.
Clermont rang the changes in the final quarter and it reinvigorated their cause, with three more tries comfortably wrapping up the bonus point. Within seconds of coming on, Skrela danced passed Ignacio Mieres for the crucial fourth try.
Buttin claimed a sensational second try on 73 minutes as Ludovic Radosavljevic broke from the base of a ruck and fired a pinpoint pass to the fullback. And Nalaga completed the rout at the death from close range.
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Course Listings for Fall 2012
HRHS 1515 : Buddhist Traditions of South Asia
Instructor(s): Pokorny
Units: 3.0
Time: Tuesday 09:40AM-12:30PMCourse Level: Introductory
Classroom: IBS/JSC Room 130
Introduces the Buddhist traditions as they originated in India and develop throughout South and Southeast Asia. First half of the required yearlong introductory survey of the entire Buddhist tradition. Course format: Seminar/lecture. Evaluation method: Participation/term paper.


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USAID administers two programs to improve the infrastructure and institutions in Kosovo responsible for the water sector. The Small Infrastructure for Water and Sanitation Program (SIWSK) helps five municipalities improve the quality of, and access to, potable water for 109,000 residents. Only 45 percent of residents in the municipalities of Pejë/Pec, Klinë/Klina, Malishevë/Malisevo, Gllogovc/Glogovac, and Lipjan have access to potable water, compared to the national average of 61 percent. The program assists with the construction of water supply systems.
The Kosovo Water Institutional Sector Reform (K-WISER) Program works with two Regional Water Companies (RWCs), Hidrodrini in Peja/Pec and Hidroregjioni Jugor in Prizren, to improve financial operations in their water supply and sanitation services in their respective regions. Technical assistance was provided to improve internal management of the Regional Water Companies, rehabilitate infrastructure and to enable increased private sector participation in the water sector.
- 98,017 persons received access to potable water
- New water distribution networks completed in the villages of Zahaq, Pavlan, Nakell, Llabjan, Ramun, Lutogllave, Ruhot, Nabergjan, and Trstenik, including transmission pipes in the Peja/Pec municipality
- New distribution networks installed in Livagje, Konjuh, Banulle, Gllogovc, Bujari and Qallapek, including transmission pipes, water reservoirs and pumping station in Konjuh, Lipjan/Lipljan municipality
- New transmission line, pump station, reservoir and distribution network for Komorani and Zabeli I Eperm villages constructed in addition to the rehabilitation and expansion of the water treatment plant in Gllogovc/Gllogovac municipality.
Project Duration: September 2008 – June 2013; September 2008 - January 2014
USAID Contact: Perihan Ymeri
Implementing Partner: Tetra Tech; and International Relief Development (IRD)
Last updated: December 27, 2013