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Writers’ Homes

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The Future

Hello Pressing Digression fans!

Please note that this blog is no longer affiliated with a company. Although I cannot tell you what the future of Pressing Digressions is, I can tell you that it was good while it lasted.

Please stay tuned.

Brittany Pogue-Mohammed

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Fri, August 07
Fight Back
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Directed by Stephen Sommers

We love seeing famous monuments fall in movieland. The Statue of Liberty, for instance, has been done (Deep Impact), redone (Independence Day), and done again (Cloverfield), but a toppling Eiffel Tower, as seen in the trailer for G.I. Joe, feels newer to us. Big bangs signal a big budget — and big hopes from fanboy lovers of the 1960s dolls (sorry, “action figures”) and 1980s toys, cartoons, and comics alike. The now de rigueur video game will be released alongside the film, and as with all toy-to-movie-to-game adaptations, expectations are low. But the promos for G.I. Joe proclaim, “When all else fails, one team won’t.” We so want that to be true. Yo, Joe! — ZW

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The Lovely Bones

Position & Relation

INDIA RADFAR will read from her new book of poems, Position & Relation, as part of the Woodstock Poetry & Society Festival (At Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY) this Saturday, Aug. 8 at 2 p.m.

This lovely book of poems, written in Woodstock, carries inspiration from various places. Prefaced by “12 Poems That Were Never Written,” the book is divided into three sections, “Natural Megaron,” “Preposition Poems,” and “Lung Poems,” corresponding to three distinctive methods Radfar used to write her way into time and space: settling down with her journal on a hilly overlook after a thirty minute walk; removing prepositions while still managing to talk about her relation to space; writing at a fixed time in the middle of the night. In going as far as she can in each of these disparate directions, she summons with a surprising degree of certitude a sense of how this specific place once affected her writing and her life. This book is about what life was like before she left Woodstock, and specifically, how she discovered in very real terms what mountains can do for language.

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Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC)

“‘Barefoot’ On the Trail
The Lechters–Lucy (l.) and Susan (r.)—are shown here reminiscing with Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) volunteer Fred Firman during the August 4 launch of their tour for Barefoot Sisters Southbound (Stackpole Books), the first volume in their account of hiking the Appalachian Trail over the course of a year, mostly barefoot. (The women went from Maine to Georgia and back.). The signing took place at the Appalachian Trail national headquarters in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.; the second volume of the sisters’ story, Walking Home, will be published in January 2010.”

VIA: PW Daily