I’m usually reluctant to buy books as gifts for friends and family members. I’ve always thought of books as something personal, chosen after deep consideration at the bookstore or spontaneously when I see something on Amazon. (It also works the other way – spontaneously at the bookstore or after deep consideration at Amazon.) Exceptions exist: our oldest son loves reading Calvin & Hobbes collections; as a child, he saw the cartoon strip as a how-to manual. And a grandson did specifically ask his parents for some Harry Potter books. I’m always ready to indulge a request for books in this age of screens.
If you have a poet in your life, or if you have a poet in your own heart, I have a few suggestions for holiday gifts. My perspective is personal – I would be thrilled to have received any of these as a gift. I’ll be writing about some of them here early next year.
My suggestions also reflect my Anglophilia.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Letters from Father Christmas: A Review for the Advent Season – Sarah Dixon Young at Story Warren.
Rembrandt in Vienna: Notes on the Exhibition – Rod Dreher at Rod Dreher’s Diary.
To See It – poem by Laura Foley at Every Day Poems.
50 States of Generosity: Idaho – Sandra Heska King at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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