If All the World Were…

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At points it feels like writing through all of the levels is done just for the sake of completionism... The collection runs in circles around ideas of memory and place and the reliability of both, and loss and haunting and escape and disreality, collecting ideas haphazardly, like so many golden coins – it builds its thesis and atmosphere by collage, gradually but not methodically. The same effect could be achieved with less meandering, and likely with more impact as a result.

You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.If all the world were memories, the past would be rooms I could visit and in each room would be my grandad.” Thoughts: Beautiful words and illustrations in regard to the topic of death of a grandparent. Just ..thanks for the punch in the face with all the emotion. I want my monument to be composed of light you might say / so you can see it friend not things themselves but the seeing of them / the light stopping on them tree I adore you I adore you world” Vanilla Secret 2 (flax and poppy and sloe berries reaching out of the frozen earth extending a frail hand as if to say I'm here it was lonely)

These are the days of no letters her signature starved with jitters / in the few half hours she’s awake to make arrangements: no flowers / or no more than is natural for a swift discreet funeral / and burial with her parents tea and sandwiches afterwards. / She sleeps the undertaker leaves the fountain leaks in the courtyard. / My head is heavier than stone. I read yesterday’s newspapers / not either asleep or awake let me please die is what she says. / It’s me I’m here is what I say but I am not since she is not. / Then she says I want to go home once more for one once more one night / and I say you can’t go home now she says I know not now after.” In Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron’s Furiosa strives to return to “the Green Place” – a tree-filled oasis in the otherwise lifeless wasteland that the Earth has become. When Furiosa arrives at the sacred spot, however, she finds only skeletal trunks and sprawling dunes. She screams in anguish. Without trees, all hope seems lost. It seems Granddad might be from India or thereabouts, but we don’t really know that either. You can see the pictures on the wall and figure out what you can. But really, who cares? This is universal.

In this book, the little girl keeps the memory of her grandpa alive through writing and drawing. This is such an important but beautiful message. Like the little girl, I imagine all the promises of adventure that my Granny and I planned. And that is what you call living memory. Sometimes we can't keep the people we love alive forever, but we keep them forever alive in our hearts. Furiosa’s feelings were justified. “Forests are the lifeline of our world,” says Meg Lowman, director of the Tree Foundation, a non-profit organisation in Florida that is dedicated to tree research, exploration and education. “Without them, we lose extraordinary and essential functions for life on Earth.” I really loved this collection. I read a review which intrigued me because the book is about the poet's memories of the years when as a teenager he played Super Mario World whilst his mother was going through treatment for cancer. It's dense, allusive, it sounds beautiful, and it demands reading and re-reading. I can see it would not be every person's cup of tea, but I found it very beautiful and heartbreaking. and now I think I / remember what I mean to say which is only that once / when all the world and love was young I saw it beautiful glowing / once in the corner of the room once I was sitting in its light” At first I was like this is not how I remember Yoshi’s House...but as it went on, invoking Super Mario World made all the poems have an extra edge and a real landscape. I forced myself to stay up to finish them all because it felt like both something I couldn’t put down and some of its power lies in being completed in one sitting. Like finishing a game when I had a full day to play it, it’s like a condescending version of that.

IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 or 6/4 time). D Major (Karpeles, Raven, Sharp): C Major (Kidson, Playford). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Karpeles, Raven, Sharp): AB (Kidson). "If all the World were Paper" was first published by John Playford as a round dance for eight persons in his English Dancing Master (1651) and in subsequent editions of the long-running Dancing Master series through the tenth edition of 1698. The last volume was published by John's son, Henry. "If all the World were Paper" is a one-strain tune in the Playford cannon. A second strain was composed for it in the mid-1960's by Everal de Jersey at the behest of musician, choreographer and researcher Pat Shuldham-Shay, and it is the version played for dancing today. And there’s so many great moments undercut by lyrical tomfoolery! “As the world of the living peers / out into the world of the dead” makes you stop, is it out or in to, is it going both ways (this is the answer)... The poems are so bound to the central idea and the moment the photograph captured, an escape from reality frozen in time, an eternal escape but also a rendering of a dead past, an image of heaven, a transcendence, Over time, Crowther predicts that we would see the release of 450 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere – more than doubling the amount that humans have already contributed. For a while, this effect would be offset by smaller plants and grasses. But while smaller plants capture carbon at a faster rate than trees, they also release it more rapidly. Eventually – perhaps over a few decades – these plants would no longer be able to head off the coming warming. “The timeline depends on where you are, since decomposition is much faster in the tropics than the Arctic,” D’Odorico says. “But once carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere, it doesn’t matter if it’s coming from here or from there.” Super Mario settings provide the headings: Yoshi’s Island, Donut Plains, Forest of Illusion, Chocolate Island and so on. There are also references to bridges, Venetian canals, mines and labyrinths, as if to give illness the gravity of a mythological hero’s journey. Meanwhile, the title repeats the first line of “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, which, as a rebuttal to Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” eschews romanticism in favor of realism about change and mortality. Sexton wanted to include both views. (He discusses his inspirations in detail in this Irish Times article.)

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If All the World Were... is a beautiful picture book focusing on the close relationship a granddaughter has with her grandfather. Through the change of seasons, we witness the special times they shared, as well as wishes the granddaughter has ("If all the world were springtime, I would replant my grandad's birthdays so that he would never get old"). Poems I liked more than the rest - Chocolate Island 5 (it probably doesn't, but it invokes what happened to La Mon Hotel during the troubles)