Things I love about Denver: the Tattered Cover Bookstore (aka nirvana)
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“It was brought from the dead woman’s apartment. It stood empty a few days, empty until I filled it with books, all the bound ones, those bulky tomes. With that act I had let in the underworld. Something swelled up from below, mounted slowly, inexorably, like mercury in a gigantic thermometer. You were not allowed to turn your head away.”
~ Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday, from his prose poem “The Bookcase” (translated by May Swenson):
“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” ~ Hazel Rochman
Photo: Woman reading at Tattered Cover in Lower Downtown Denver, Colorado
