BORN IN U.K. ~

PJ Harvey recorded "The Mess We're In" a year after Dusty Springfield passed away to breast cancer in 1999. Springfield was an Irish lass born (1939) in the UK as Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien and her soul and voice rivaled anyone's anywhere. PJ Harvey is likewise UK born (1969) and her career continues on course. On this track she is joined by Thom Yorke. Both tracks skim the ceiling.

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JOHN LATTA

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BOB ARNOLD

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Morning sunlight offers long shadows

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BACK ROAD CHALKIES ~ JULY 4th

Henry David Thoreau moved into his habitat at Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts on this day 1845 — one week before his birthday.

He wrote of the pond, "blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both."

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EARTH ~

EARTH ~

Hobart Smith

Frank Proffitt

Roscoe Holcomb

GENTLEMEN

Hobart Smith was the oldest of the three gentlemen, and gentlemen is the key word when remembering and listening to their music today.

Smith was born in Virginia in 1897. Gifted as a player on fiddle, banjo, guitar, accordion, harmonica, piano and organ. Whew.

Roscoe Holcomb was born in Kentucky in 1912 — he often worked as a farmer and coal miner and it would be his corroded lungs as a coal miner that would end his life. Luckily we got his music first.

Frank Proffitt was a year younger than Roscoe and born in Tennessee and raised in North Carolina on a tobacco farm, which he took up, along with work as a carpenter and in a spark plug factory. With his own hands he made fretless banjos and dulcimers.

It was the musician and music historian John Cohen who coined the term "High Lonesome Sound" for Roscoe, but this may be heard in passages of all three gentlemen.

Play them, and watch the animals and birds come closer.

Hobart: web.ukonline.co.uk
Frank: www.loc.gov/folklife/guide/folkmusicandsong.html
Roscoe:www.southernspaces.org/.../2008/matthews/1g.htm

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DONNA FLEISCHER

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WHICHWAY ~

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ANDREW SCHELLING

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EARTH ~

YOFIYAH

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GEORGE KALAMARAS

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Alvaro Cardona-Hine





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LENORE KANDEL ~

Writer and actor Peter Coyote remembering his close friend Lenore Kandel at a memorial for LK in January 2010

POETRY IS NEVER COMPROMISE ~ LENORE KANDEL

Lenore Kandel in the center of things, 1967


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MICHAEL HETTICH

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JOHN BENNETT

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THINK BACK, PILGRIM VII

FRANK SAMPERI

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Let me introduce myself. I am Claudia Samperi-Warren, the daughter of the American Poet Frank Samperi. This blog will be in honor of my father's life as a poet.

Frank Samperi was born in Brooklyn in 1933. Discovered by Louis Zukofsky and Cid Corman, he published some twenty books of poetry and appeared prominently in journals such as Origin and Caterpillar.

Master of the lyric and an autoddact steeped in Dante, Aquinas, and Shankara, Samperi created a unified, highly original lifepoem of pilgrimage through the American City and world of the spirit.

He passed away in Sun City, Arizona in 1991. He is survived by his daughter, Claudia & son, David.

As a poet, as in other respects, Frank Samperi stood apart. Orphan and first generation Italian-American, he discovered Dante in a Brooklyn institution, taught himself Aquinas in Latin, studied the Indian philosopher Sankara, non-Euclidean geometry and astrology. His work was not just counter-cultural but also counter-fashionable. Although discovered by Louis Zukofsky and Cid Corman, and appreciated by other poets of his generation, including Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly, and Will Peterson, as well as other "knowing readers," Samperi's poetry has heretofore been available only in limited editions.

With recent works like, Spiritual Necessity produced by John Martone and others we hope that this web site will bring to light his voice to a new generation of thinkers.



*From the introduction of Spiritual Necessity by John Martone, Huntington, NY 2003

A GREAT BOOK ~

The photographs were taken on twelve Himalayan trips between 1986 and 2005 using an old fashioned 4x5 Toyo view camera mounted on a sturdy wooden tripod.

(Fields Publishing, North Truro, MA.)

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JEFFERY BEAM

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