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Poetry, and some buddhist philosophy. The_Muted_Grimaud Send a noteboard - 08/10/2015 12:19:59 AM

I will be receiving Dana Gioia's 'Pity the Beautiful', while working on the complete (or collected) works of Robert Frost, John Keats, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. I tend to move slowly through the large anthologies though, switching from one to the other after a hundred pages.

On the philosophy side, I got a book of teachings by Ajahn Chah, a Thai teacher who resided in the Isan section of Thailand. I've always been curious about Buddhism and I'm heading to Isan next year for my friend's wedding (she's Thai), and I've been learning Thai, (I'd say I'm fluent on a 3 or 4 year olds level at this point) so, why not study a bit about what the Thais believe.

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