JAMES BLOOD ULMER ~

BOB KAUFMAN ~

The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

R E A D       M E

City Lights

2019

ZOMBIE ~

YOKEL ( 5 ) ~

B R I D E   O F

Y O K E L

Once rigor is established

a certain beauty is possible

PAUL VALERY

Work Day

I like

her 

sweater

it used

to be

mine

Nothing

After ten days heat

Air still, a match

Flame unnerved

In the flue of the cook stove

We came out on the 11th day

To the breezes back cool,

Yellow leaves of a dying elm

Flying apart, grasses wet

To the high boots, and on that day

Quieter and the river clearer and

More part of itself, I crossed

Water at a narrow flow to find

Where this owl calls after days

Of silence, and while hiking up

The other side there was nothing

Limp

We knew Native must be still living

There even though her husband has been

Dead now over ten years and back then

They appeared inseparable. Sure enough

We came around the bend on bicycles and

Could see Native moving in the backyard near

The house pulling on something — black plastic

Skirted the place over winter and she was just

Getting to pull it off and put away. Stovepipes

Going up high on either gable end of the house,

Big barn now shut down across the road, all the

Other sheds and of course the sweep of pastures.

Here we are at heaven on earth as we glide

On bicycles closer and Native appears around

The corner limping bad and hair torn

Dragging the plastic and not about to stop to

Talk but when I ask how she has been she

Stammers with an awful hitch to her step that

Before the limp she was an awful lot better.

Diary

Working with her in the sun

We break for lunch in the sun

Share sandwiches in the sun

Finish and lay back in the sun

Soon we are kissing in the sun

_______________

Bob Arnold

Yokel

Longhouse

2011

STEPHEN DIXON ~

Mr. Dixon in 1998. Working on a portable typewriter, he published 18 novels and about 600 stories.Credit...Lloyd Fox/The Baltimore Sun

1936 ~ 2019

STEPHEN DIXON

THIN, WILD MERCURY SOUND (DYLAN) ~

"It was not my goal to join the ranks of Dylan’s biographers, for whom I have the utmost respect. Instead my motivation for writing the book was to tell an important story that had never been fully told, a story about what is arguably Dylan’s greatest album (Blonde On Blonde), an album that transformed popular music and the city of Nashville, as well. It is surprising to me the story had not already been fully told, and I think that was in part because it’s a story mostly set in Nashville. Being based in Nashville and covering the rock and soul scene here for the past forty years, I was acquainted with most of the Nashville musicians who worked with Dylan on the record. I was also acquainted with Al Kooper from his time living in Nashville in the ’90s. I think one of the advantages of focusing on not only a single record, but this record in particular, was it allowed me to take the readers on a deep dive into Dylan’s process when he was at the peak of creative powers, and give them a ringside seat in the studio as Dylan and the musicians recorded his masterpiece."


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Chicago Review Press
2019

HAND HEWN ~

Storey Publishing
2019

MARIA PEREGO (TOPO GIGIO) ~

M A R I A    P E R E G O

1923 (Venice) ~ 2019 (Milan)

JONI MITCHELL, BLUE ~

YEAR OF THE MONKEY ~

knopf /  bloomsbury

2019

If you want a quiet book

of brotherhood

here it is