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Coyote Redux: Door County View (BLOCKED) from the Road
Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
(After & Before) By The Local Correspondent You have to see it to believe it. Which is what this news item from NBCoop today is all about. Many of us (residents and tourists alike) traveling south down Highway 42. see it all too often and are sick of the sight. What’s been pushed, ‘billboard-ed” in [...]
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Norbert Blei’s RFD – Rural Free Delivery: MAY Notebook
Posted on 23. May, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Lilacs, dandelions… daffodils… mayflowers – a paper basket of them left on the door by local children every May Day. Wild asparagus, morel mushrooms, the many shades of green… roadside ditches getting some of their color back… the lawn growing into itself again, DO NOT DISTURB. Let it be. Let wild grasses and wildflowers grow. [...]
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Six Found-Poems in the Words and Paintings of Andrew Wyeth by Norbert Blei
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
LOST & FOUND: We have all seen and discovered poems before we ever read them or found the words to write them ourselves. For as long as I remember I have ‘rescued’ (found?) poems in my surroundings. Especially poems in the city: the writ of grit; words on walls; words scratched on homemade window signs; [...]
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The Poetry of Persona and the Divided Self
Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Not every poet finds a reason or need to develop a voice within a voice, another ‘persona’ if you will, but for some time a number of poets (Americans in particular) have been getting outside/inside themselves in the way writers of fiction create ‘characters’ or characters to voice other levels of meaning. CAUTION: It may [...]
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Norb Blei’s Latest Notes from the Underground… “Skating Backwards”
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Once after the war the small boy went from the city in a new blue Buick convertible and skated a frozen river in a forest preserve with his favorite uncle who was like a father to him. Uncle Stephan was a soccer player, a soft ball player, an archer, a photographer, a singer, and a [...]
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Blei Bids Farewell to Joe Knappen, the Last Local Editor of a Once-Local Newspaper…
Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Well, it finally happened, as announced the last time we visited our local newspaper predicament on this Web site. They (Corp. Gannett) finally took down the last newsman standing, Joe Knaapen, the only reason to pick up a copy of the dying Aggravate at all the past year. And now the county is truly left [...]
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Norb Blei’s “Memoir” Dispatches, #8 on Eric Chaet
Posted on 02. Jan, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Author’s Note: This is the last of the “end-of-the-old-year, beginning-of-the-new-year dispatches.” I accomplished most of what I set out to do for this annual, memorable time-span in the culture, when most Americans appear anxious to fine-tune their sense of spirit. There were two other pieces I wanted to offer, which I will re-think and present [...]
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Blei’s Used Books at Passtimes
Posted on 27. Dec, 2008 by Norbert Blei.
I have run out of room in my house. Books overflow the walls, spill on to the floors. It’s time to stem the flood…put a stop (somewhat) to all this. Time to downsize my library of hardback and trade-back books… fiction, nonfiction, poetry. All kinds of titles.
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The Coyote Speaks on Door County Times
Posted on 02. Dec, 2008 by Norbert Blei.
The annual Deer Hunt in Wisconsin ended this past Sunday. By all indications (state-wide), not great but okay. Fewer hunters. Fewer deer taken. A blood sport – and not everyone’s cup of tea. Including me, when I first set down in the rural of this place, going on forty years ago. But I have come [...]
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Return to Rory of the Peaceable Kingdom…
Posted on 27. Aug, 2008 by Norbert Blei.
This essay on Rory Walter written by Norb Blei was originally published in the DoorCountyCompass.com on December 11, 2002 but it deserves to be shared once again. Find more of Norb’s latest publications at Blei’s Door County Times. It’s been a while since I last checked in with the greatest Caregiver for Creatures on the [...]
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