[BUMP from 12/24/05…/07] Everyone should hear Dylan Thomas read his own “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” but it’s almost as good just reading it yourself. What words! What imagery! It all comes to life, I tell ya, right to life. Better than any movie. What words! Just the best. Shows you what writing can do. Thomas takes you right back to being a kid and you don’t have to be Welsh. Little kids won’t get it, though. It’s rolling so fast so fast. Every piece is wordplay as fast as you can handle it, yet rolling so easily, especially off his classically rythmic tongue. The link below gets you a book AND a CD of, I think, the original one’n’only must-hear recording. Plus a few more. Poetry!
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A perfect holiday season isn’t complete without a reading or re-reading of Truman Capote’s childhood tales. High-society’s spot-on leading light grew up poor and unwanted in the South. He learned to rely on the kindness of elders and others. Little boy and older lady relatives and neighbors formed special bonds. It’s a spare style with everything you need in a story still there just the same. Words would only get in the way. Read these two quick little tales, they’ll last you a lifetime. My wife Martha rates these two stories as her alltime favorites…
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