Madeleine L'Engle? That's another story. Thought you all in the literati might appreciate this: According to L'Engle's official Web site, her poetry has been published in a single work, "The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle."

Does anyone know a blogger who has reviewed it? Links, links! I'd love to read more than than jacket copy.

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

gaargh.. I keep trying to leave you a link but it isn't working... wassup here?

this is the only thing i have found so far..

http://writer-lee.blogspot.com/2005/04/old-story-new-context.html

It's on many peoples reading lists though, so maybe in a few months there will be more?

Miriam
The Flink
"like harnessing a unicorn to harvest potatoes"

I was a voracious reader as a kid (love that idea of books replacing human contact for learning about the world. What was I ever going to learn from the kids around me?), but I never read Madelaine L'Engle until I was in my 40s. Will have to add her poetry to my "wish list".

Debra
A Stitch In Time
Simple Still Life

I moved to California just before starting High School, and spent the entire first semester's lunches going between L'Engle books and "Nicholas and Alexandra"..

A few years ago a friend bought me about 10 of her works in a collection, and I've been re-reading them ever since. But I had no inkling she wrote poetry as well... I think I just figured out what I want for Valentine's Day. :)

But You're Innocent When You Dream...

Hi, Miriam!

Definitely had my Madeleine L'Engle and Lucy Maud Montgomery near at hand. Not only did they make splendid companions, they were also very useful in bopping an obnoxious boy or two.

Very moving poems, btw! So moving that I just might have to scream silently (though to what effect I'm not entirely sure?)

"...what am I going to do with some of my more emotional blog entries in 20 years?"

Hey, I look forward to finding out! And thanks for the mention, btw - :)

So with you on the lucy m. tip.

I spent a lot of time trying to make that curtain pulling back feeling happen for me the way it did for emily.

Bopping boys though? I think I was more one of them, not such a bopper moi, more of a fart-joke sharer.

What was nicholas and alexandra? Is that the kids book series tah th ethen brenda and billy characters on six feet under are referencing?

It would be an interesting study to find out how many bloggers spent a lot of their time socializing through the written word even pre-internet. I was a total note-passer as well as a a bookworm. I would sit next to my friends in their living rooms and pass notes, we wrote stories together etc...

Miriam
The Flink
"like harnessing a unicorn to harvest potatoes"

Nicholas and Alexandra is about the last Czar of Russia, his wife, their kids, and the last years of their lives. Not exactly light reading, but an amazing story.

The woman who has been my best friend since I was 13 and I wrote stories together for years, and created a whole world in our heads. When I moved away at 15 we continued sending each other snippets of the story by mail up until we went to college...

But You're Innocent When You Dream...

I thought N and A would be two precocious orphans who have adventures in air balloons etc.. shows what I know.

I should have read more carefully, the pre-teen years could also be called the years of bodice ripping historical novels and biographies.

I think around than I was reading the thorn birds and shogun {cringe}.

What's a SAHM??

Miriam
The Flink
"like harnessing a unicorn to harvest potatoes"