Jan 22
I use this amazing Irish poem when we study the American writer Henry David Thoreau and Walden. The parallels are striking: Thoreau in 1854 in America and William Butler Yeats from Ireland in 1888 while walking down Fleet Street in London.
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“All good books are the same and when you read a good book you realize it’s already passed on to you and then that book becomes yours whatever good or bad or enjoyable in it. There are evils, sadness, people, towns and seasons there, they all become yours.” (Ernest Hemingway)
This poet-angel-hipster dude from Jersey writes satire, humor, fiction, poetry, essays on music, travel, gardening, and his belly button. He’s a trophy husband.
