The Friday 56 - 52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem by Ruth Padel

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

It's that simple.


I've gone for a non-fiction selection this week. The book is 52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem by Ruth Padel. It looks at how 52 poems can be interpreted and I'm expecting to begin reading this in about a week or so when I've finished Apartment 16.


The teaser line is:


The subjects of the poems that follow are things that matter to all of us: memory, childhood, embarrassment; war, illness, death, love; dreams, art, jealousy, betrayal, loss.