Thursday, May 27, 2010

Book power


BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND
CHORTLE AND COLLIDE


In all this willful world
of thud and thump and thunder
man's relevance to books
continues to declare.

Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower,
steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.

-- Gwendolyn Brooks, 1969

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