I’m having chemotherapy at the moment and I find it difficult to concentrate. When I read, it has to be in short bursts. I’ve got Ben Okri’s compilation of poetry, Rise Like Lions, by my bedside. He groups the poems into categories, such as “protest” and “truth”. In the former is William Wordsworth’s tribute to the man who led the most successful slave revolt, in Haiti, “To Toussaint L’Ouverture”; in the latter is Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”.
Good choices. I loved reading Steinbeck and Greene when I was growing up. I was thrilled to go to Cannery Row, Monterey.
Can I send you something for George?
Me too! 📚
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