PURE BEATLEMANIA ~

LOOK & SEE ~

W E N D E L L     B E R R Y

http://lookandseefilm.com/trailer

THE KINKS, Paris 1966 ~

CHRISTA WOLF ~

M O R E !

I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE ~

MORE!

MY FUNNY VALENTINE ~

GODZILLA ~

Haruo Nakajima, who played Godzilla, at his home in Sagamihara, Japan, in 2014. To perfect the monster’s notoriously destructive gait, he spent hours at the zoo, studying how elephants and bears walked. 

L E G E N D

photo ~ 

                                                                                           Junji Kurokawa/Associated Press 

KIOSK ~

Arterial Road



It is as though you'd unexpectedly woken up,
as though long enough you'd been out hunting
for that which escaped you,
as though you had really noticed
what is really there,
as though you had suddenly discovered something,
as though you'd discovered the philosopher's stone,
as though you'd discovered
what the philosopher's stone is good for,
as though it shone,
as though all were initiates whom you ran into
at this street corner like any other,
as though you were one of them —

till the second hand moves on one second,
the traffic light leaps from red to yellow,
and you drive on down the sign-posted road.






Addressee Unknown — Retour a l'expéditeur


Many thanks for the clouds.
Many thanks for the Well-tempered Clavier
and, why not, for the warm winter boots.
Many thanks for my strange brain
and for all manner of other hidden organs,
for the air, and, of course, for the claret.
Heartfelt thanks for my lighter and my desire
not running out of fuel,
as well as my regret, my deep regret.
Many thanks for the four seasons,
for the number e, for my dose of caffeine,
and, of course, for the strawberry dish
painted by Chardin, as well as for sleep,
for sleep quite especially, and,
last not least, for the beginning and the end
and the few minutes in between
fervent thanks,
even, if you like, for the voles out there in the garden.




The Entombment


Our mortal frame,
they call it.
But what did it hold?
The psychologist will say:
Your psyche.
Your soul,
the priest.
Your personality,
the personal manager.

Furthermore,
there's the anima,
the imago, the daemon,
the identity and the Ego,
not to mention the Id
and the Super-Ego.

The butterfly which is to rise
from this very mixed lot
belongs to a species
about which nothing is known.


———————————
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Kiosk
translated by Michael Hamburger
Bloodaxe Books 1997

SONG OF COMPLAINT ~

HANDMADE HOUSES ~

Add this slim and handy volume to the stacks and stacks of books

 already devoted to the subject, John May ranges the Earth seeking

 out the world of vernacular architecture, of which you may be 

residing in one! 

( I am ) 

Tastefully illustrated with plenty of on-site color photographs

 of buildings tucked in with May's lively and informative

 commentary, we cover the globe in search of those

 grasping handsaws, mixing wattle or 

standing on stone.

[ BA ]

Thames & Hudson, 2010

BILLY BOY ARNOLD ~

BOOKS BY BOB ARNOLD, A Selection ~

A Selection of Books by Bob Arnold ~

For more information including ordering link here

Museum by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2016

Darling Companion by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2016

The Woodcutter Talks by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2015

Cup by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2016

Rain Bear by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2015

Duo, 

Bird Poems by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2015

Start With The Tree by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2015

Go West by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2014

My Sweetest Friend by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2014

Sapline by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2014

Stone Hut, 

25th Anniversary Edition by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2014

Beautiful Days by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2014

I'm In Love With You Who Is In Love With Me by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2012

Yokel,

 a long Green Mountain poem,  by Bob Arnold

Longhouse, 2011

Dream Come True, Sanndroymd, by Bob Arnold

Nordsjoforlaget, 2009. Illustrated by Laurie Clark. 

Translated into the Norwegian by Lars Amund Vaage.

Sunswumthru A Building by Bob Arnold

with illustrations by Laurie Clark

Origin, 2006

Once In Vermont by Bob Arnold

Gnomon, 1999

American Train Letters by Bob Arnold

UNY/Buffalo, Coyote, 1996

Where Rivers Meet by Bob Arnold

Mad River Press, 1990

MIDNIGHT TO DAWN ~

For Bob!

For Bob ! 

for you on August 5th, love sweetheart

photo by two-hands, 2015

I GOT A SWEET TOOTH ~

WHAT IS LANDSCAPE? ~

M I T     P R E S S

POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY ~

A     R E V I E W

THOREAU ~

I spent part of July finishing up building a mountain road

a half-mile long and while building read Laura Dassow Walls

masterpiece biography on Thoreau. Don't take my word for it,

read Robert D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau:

A Life of the Mind, maybe the finest study of Thoreau until 

the Walls biography showed up, and how humbling is

his back dust jacket quote:

"Laura Dassow Walls has written a grand, big-hearted biography, as

compulsively readable as a great nineteenth-century novel, chock full

of new and fascinating detail about Thoreau, his family, his friends,

and his town. Walls's magnificent — landmark — achievement is the

best all-around biography of Thoreau ever written. It not only brings

Thoreau vividly back to life, it will fundamentally change how we see

him. We will hear no more about the 'hermit of Walden Pond.' Walls

has given us a new socially engaged Thoreau for a new era, a freedom

fighter for John Brown and America, and a necessary prophet and

spokesman for Concord Mass. and Planet Earth."

Beautiful.

It shares the back cover with gobbledygook from

Publishers Weekly which would have done better

being left off, and center the Richardson quote

on the frame of the book all alone.

SAM SHEPARD ~

S a m     S h e p a r d

[ November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017 ]

Sam Shepard