Martha Knows Everything...and You Should, Too

I SING THE STORY OF SIN

...and Syntax. That's "Sin and Syntax," by Constance Hale, a carnal celebration of good writing that also manages to be, urk, a book about grammar. Read any three pages, I promise you, and it makes you want to whack out a beautiful sentence...

Stuff like this:

"RELISH EVERY WORD.

"Sentences should be as varied as the objects of our desire--sometimes we want them brawny, sometimes we want them brainy, sometimes silken, sometimes brutal. We don't want them to stay the same, day after day."

Oh, yum.

Speaking of sexy sentences, for a glorious hit of poetry by the late Frank O'Hara, do visit Herself, listed in the links at the side, who did me the honor of quoting the Kenneth Koch poem, and then added one of my faves by the cutest gay librarian ever to collaborate on paintings with the brawny action guys of the 50s, Frank O'Hara. Thanks, Herself.

posted by Martha @ 11:01 PM