Irma S. Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking is an unlikely classic: at once a pragmatic manual, a conversational memoir, and — when read closely — a vernacular text that helped shape twentieth-century American domestic culture. First self-published in 1931 as a modest compilation of tested recipes and “casual culinary chat,” the book rapidly left the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Revisionist Poetry – Almost Invisible, v.2
Notice the hare— a seam in the field:fur threaded from river silt to sky-smoke,a mottled map that answers no one. It folds into the green, spine a taut wire,breath stitched thin along a blade of grass.Eyes half-open like coins tilted to light,a small percussion beating behind the ribs. Ears pivot—radar for footstep and wing-shadow—listening to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Almost Invisible, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins’s Roomanitarian is a compact blast of the author’s characteristic electricity: part essay collection, part personal manifesto, and entirely tuned to the register of a voice that has been honed on stages, bus trips, and the small, unforgiving hours of hotel rooms. First published by Rollins’s own 2.13.61 press in 2005, the book runs … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v7. (scratchy jukebox edition – Tom Waits style)
i don’t know love by the book —i know it by the smell of your coat after rain,by the neon bruise that hums outside our window,by a coffee cup that rings like a bell when you set it down. i love a smile that’s crooked like a bad harmonica,it sneaks up on me from the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v7. (scratchy jukebox edition – Tom Waits style)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Dull Roar by Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins has long worn many faces — punk provocateur, spoken-word performer, travel diarist, cultural gadfly — and A Dull Roar reads like the distilled audio of those public selves turned inward. The book insists on being heard: its sentences are kinetic, its cadence muscular, and its moral energy rarely sits idle. As a work … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Dull Roar by Henry Rollins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v6. (Sonnet)
i count the moments when your hand finds mine,small clockwork measures that unseat the dark.your smile, a ledger, balances the day;your voice, an ordered tide, refines my thought.i learn the grammar of your silences,repay them with a careful, steady ear.we argue, not to wound, but to be clearer;we fail, then practice courage like a craft.there … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v6. (Sonnet)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Sue Roe’s In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art is a capacious, elegiac portrait of a place and a moment. It threads biography, cultural history, and close-looking criticism to argue that Montmartre — with its cafés, studios, cheap lodgings and convivial degradations — was not merely backdrop but active engine of a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v5. (Lighter)
i’m not sure what love is,but i can list its ridiculous perks. i love a grin that sneaks up like a catand ambushes my morning coffee.i love eyes that play hide-and-seekwith the important bits of my face. i love hands that high-five and then apologizefor being so good at holding things.i love hugs that smuggle … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v5. (Lighter)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab Techniques by Jim Robison
Jim Robison’s Slab Techniques is a concise, unpretentious primer that manages the useful trick of being both immediately practical and quietly provocative. Presented as part of the Ceramics Handbooks series, the book lays out slab building not as a single method but as a family of choices — a toolkit of decisions about clay, joinery, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab Techniques by Jim Robison
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v4. (Darker)
i'm not sure what love is; i know its shadow.it is the appetite that wakes at midnight,a small, precise hunger that learns your shapeand traces the hollows where light once lived. i love the way you keep a pocket of achelike a coin for later—found and folded in.your smile is not bright so much as … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v4. (Darker)
The New Renaissance Mindset 