JENNY DISKI ~

 

J E N N Y     D I S K I

JONI MITCHELL ~

 

KAY RYAN ~

 

R E A D      M E

a lovely sized book for the hand —

sincere and quite relaxed essays

all accomplished with the right touch —

Marianne Moore, Stevie Smith,

Philip Larkin and Gerard Manley Hopkins

are her preferred dishes,

and William Bronk was a surprise

THOMAS BERNHARD ~

 

R E A D     M E

JIM TOLPIN, BUILDER ~

 R E A D      M E 

SOME RONALD BAATZ "WOODEN NOODLES" ~

   

from WOODEN NOODLES

                   __________________________

In spring

birds teaching leaves

how to sing

leaves teaching birds

how to whisper

Milky Way

a blissful spray of light -

we did cross this river

I remember that

little bridge

Usually

I sin in the house

and pray in the garden.

although on some nights

it happens the other way around

I make paper airplanes

out of love poems which

from so much practice

I am able to land

at her feet

Lightning

hitting a dead apple tree -

in childhood I thought nothing

of eating a

stick of butter

The house I lived in as a boy

good and bad angels

hanging in the closet

like bats the size

of overcoats

The rat I saw

down by the river

the rat that saw me

in dusty evening light

carrying a bag of cookies

Not so uncommon

a moth dying in its sleep

outside a diner

serving breakfast

at any hour of the day

Found in a pocket

of a jacket

in the closet

a desert night

from long ago

Do the ghosts

of childhood dogs

refusing to get out of my bed

have anything to do

with insomnia

A cheap clock wakes me

then a breeze from

a nearby burning field

lulls me back

to sleep

Throw my ashes

in the pond at Mt T

I have seen glints of heaven

in the eyes

of frogs

___________________

Ronald Baatz

Wooden Noodles

Black Fig Press

 2021

RUSSELL LEE ~

 

R E A D     M E

Norton 2021

SIBERIAN HOUSE FROM BIRCH BARK AND FISH! ~

 

Gordon Clarke

ANNA KAVAN ~

 

A N N A     K A V A N

J.D. WHITNEY ~ COUSIN WIND ~

 

J.D. Whitney

Backroad Chalkie

Autumn 2021

photo: Bob & Susan Arnold

SYLVIA PLATH ~

 

R E A D     M E

ALEX CALDIERO ~

 

Essays by

_____________________

SCOTT ABBOTT

LAURA ALLRED HURTADO

SCOTT CARRIER

TYLER CHADWICK

CRAIG DWORKIN

TRENT HARRIS

RICHARD KOSTELANETZ

STEFENE RUSSELL

_________________________

UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PRESS

utahmoca.org

ROBERT FROST LETTERS ~

 

R E A D     M E

Harvard

 2021

VICTOR KLEMPERER (1881-1960) ~

 

V I C T O R     K L E M P E R E R

Continuum Books

2000

SANTOKA TANEDA ~

 

R E A D      M E

Tuttle, 2021

TOWNES VAN ZANDT, LIVE 1973 ~

 

VICTORIA CHANG ~

 

Obit

Language—died again on August
3, 2015 at 7:09 a.m. I heard about
my mother’s difficult nights. I hired
a night person. By the time I got
there, she was always gone. The
night person had a name but was like
a ghost who left letters on a shore
that when brought home became
shells. Couldn’t breathe, 2:33 a.m.
Screaming, 3:30 a.m. Calm, 4:24
a.m. I got on all fours, tried to pick up
the letters like a child at an egg hunt
without a basket. But for every letter
I picked up, another fell down, as if
protesting the oversimplification of
my mother’s dying. I wanted the night
person to write in a language I could
understand. Breathing unfolding,
2:33. Breathing in blades, 3:30.
Breathing like an evening gown,
4:24. But maybe I am wrong, how
death is simply death, each slightly
different from the next but the final
strike all the same. How the skin
responds to a wedding dress in the
same way it responds to rain.

___________________________

Victoria Chang

Obit

Copper Canyon Press

2020

BO DIDDLEY 1965 (TAMI SHOW) ~

 

SIBERIAN (KHANTY) NOMADS ~

 

Gordon Clarke

JOSEPH BRODSKY ~

 

R E A D     M E

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

2020

HANIF ABDURRAQIB ~

 

R E A D      M E

Random House

2021

JOHN GIORNO ~

 

H A V E    A    T A S T E

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

2020

GAYL JONES ~

 

G A Y L     J O N E S

Beacon Press, 1976

MARILYNNE ROBINSON (GILEAD) ~

 

G I L E A D

THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW

A.R. AMMONS ~

 

BACKROAD   CHALKIE

Autumn 2021

photo ~ bob & susan arnold

MILJENKO JERGOVIC ~

 

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