Amiri Baraka, the politically embattled poet laureate of New Jersey, recently attended to read his poem, criticized as anti-Semitic, about the attack on the World Trade Center.
However, by forgiving yourself for not attending to reading it and letting yourself reread already read parts of the book without worrying too much that they're retracing old ground, you can get over any feelings that it's too much trouble and you may discover new insights by plowing back into the book.
Forms of the Land, the flow of water, the occurrence of what us'd to be call'd Miracles, all are Text, — to be attended to, manipulated, read, remember'd".
There are regular evening meetings to attend, documents to read, publicity to prepare.
We think of reading as a seamless and indivisible act, and as we read we attend to the meaning — and, perhaps, the beauty — of written language, unconscious of the many processes that make this possible.
The books — mostly fiction culled from the library's regular collection — quickly became popular, too, as people without televisions, Internet or school to attend turned to reading.
Her husband did have a bit of state business to attend to at the opening ceremony, reading a proclamation from the California Arts Council that bestowed kudos, but no public bucks, on the Chance, which is making a rare step up from storefront to mid-size status.
She recommended workshops for Mrs. Flynn to attend and books to read, especially "The Skillful Teacher" (Research for Better Teaching, 1997) by Jon Saphier and Robert Gower, something of a bible for the county's consulting teachers.
Programs have been tested that provide incentives for students to take and perform well on standardized exams, to attend school, or to read books (Fryer 2011, Bettinger 2012; Angrist and Lavy 2009).
Following a CESCAL (Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership) conference she recently attended, Jeanne decided to read a CESCAL-recommended book to her class called And Tango Makes Three.
