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		<title>Steve Jobs: Walter Isaacson&#8217;s Biography &#8211; A Book Commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This often critical biography of someone famously known for being difficult draws a portrait of a brilliantly creative man who&#8217;s relentless, single-minded obsession with perfection created two of the world&#8217;s most successfully branded companies; Pixar Films and Apple Computers. Revolutions &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2012/02/13/steve-jobs-walter-isaacsons-biography-a-book-commentary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3606&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week &#8211; June the Horse by Jim Harrison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep is water. I’m an old man surging upriver on the back of my dream horse that I haven’t seen since I was ten. We’re night riders through cities, forests, fields. I saw Stephanie standing on the steps of Pandora’s &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2012/02/02/poem-of-the-week-june-the-horse-by-jim-harrison-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3562&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week: Ocean Ghazal by Alison Mcghee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ocean Ghazal He came spiraling back up the stairs, all four flights, two at a time Dark coat flying, dark eyes searching, something more to tell her, that last time. At night by the ocean, salt spray and laughter and &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2012/01/21/poem-of-the-week-ocean-ghazal-by-alison-mcghee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3496&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week: If thou must love me, let it be for nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. Do not say ‘I love her for her smile—her look—her way Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2012/01/13/poem-of-the-week-if-thou-must-love-me-let-it-be-for-nought-by-elizabeth-barrett-browning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3474&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week: Roofmen by Patricia Fargnoli</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over my head the roofmen are banging shingles into place and over them the sky shines with a light that is almost past autumn, and bright as copper foil. In the end I will have something to show for their &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2012/01/05/poem-of-the-week-roofmen-by-patricia-fargnoli/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3457&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victoria-based writer Esi Edugyan&#8217;s Half-Blood Blues was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and was the winner of the prestigious 2011 Giller Prize. This is a book that makes me grateful for writers like Esi who bring to light &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2012/01/02/half-blood-blues-by-esi-edugyan-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3440&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week: The Woman Who Shoveled the Sidewalk by Stanley Plumly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She clearly needed more than money, which, anyway, wasn’t much. Her dog, one of those outlawed fighting breeds, black-and-white and eyes too far apart, kept snapping at the leash, the cash I placed as simply as I could into her &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2011/12/06/poem-of-the-week-the-woman-who-shoveled-the-sidewalk-by-stanley-plumly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3408&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week: Then I Walked Through the World by Leah Goldberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then I walked through the world as though someone adored me. Laughter unfurled through heaps of stones, and a wind through fathomless skies. Then I walked through the world as though someone dreamed me fair. Across the night abysses bloomed &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2011/11/29/poem-of-the-week-then-i-walked-through-the-world-by-leah-goldberg/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3387&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week: Little Horse by W.S. Merwin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You come from some other forest do you little horse think how long I have known these deep dead leaves without meeting you I belong to no one I would have wished for you if I had known how what &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2011/11/19/poem-of-the-week-little-horse-by-w-s-merwin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3379&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Commentary: Solar by Ian McEwan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmnn, not really quite sure what to make of this book and I say this only because Ian McEwan is one of my favourite writers. I have loved everything I have ever read by him &#8211; Atonement, On Chesil Beach,  A &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2011/11/15/book-commentary-solar-by-ian-mcewan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&amp;blog=566573&amp;post=3362&amp;subd=condofire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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