STAUGHTON LYND ~

 

Mr. Lynd was spattered with paint during an antiwar protest in Washington in 1965. He was among the first of about 350 people arrested during the demonstration.Credit...Nat Finkelstein Estate

S T A U G H T O N     L Y N D

1929 ~ 2022

LIONEL SHRIVER ~

 

M O R E !

~ ACCORDING TO EMMANUEL CARRERE ~

 

R E A D      M E

THE MYSTERIOUS ROMANCE OF MURDER ~

 

R E A D       M E

( the introduction )

VICTORY IS ASSURED ~

 

R E A D      M E

Liveright 2022

PHILIP SCHULTZ ~

 

R E A D      M E

Norton 2022

HOWLIN' WOLF ~

 

American Folk Blues Festival

1964

KAY NIELSEN~

 

FOROUGH FARROKHZAD ~

 

I Will Greet the Sun Again

I will greet the sun again

I will greet

the stream that flowed in me

the clouds that were my long thoughts

the painful growth of the aspens in the garden

who passed with me through the dry seasons

I will greet the flock of crows

who brought me the scent of the fields at night

as a gift

I will greet my mother who lived in the mirror

and was the reflection of my old age

and greet the earth again

whose throbbing interior, with my chronic lust

I have stuffed with green seeds

I will come, I will come, I will come

with my glossy hair: rich with the scents of turned-up soil

with my eyes: experiences of thick darkness

with bushes I have picked from the grove on the other side of the wall

I will come, I will come, I will come

and the threshold will be filled with love

and on the threshold

I will greet those who love again

and the girl still standing there

on the love-filled threshold

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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

Forough Farrokhzad

translated from the Iranian by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr .

New Directions 2022

BOB FRANK ~

 

"the greatest songwriter you never heard."

JIM DICKINSON

HOW NEPAL GREW BACK ITS FOREST ~

N E P A L    F O R E S T 

Karan Deep Singh/The New York Times

REMEMBERING HOWARD McCORD ~

Nov. 3, 1932 (El Paso) ~ Nov 3, 2022  

H O W A R D     M c C O R D 

ANGELA DAVIS ~

 

Haymarket Books

2021

JOY HARJO ~

 

R E A D    M E

WESTERN MAN ~

 

DJANJO REINHARDT ON VOGUE ~

 

DIRTY PICTURES ~

 

D I R T Y

XI CHUAN ~

 

Mourning Problems

an ant dies, and no one mourns

a bird dies, and no one mourns if it isn't a crested ibis

a monkey dies, and monkeys mourn

a monkey dies, and people pry open its skull

a shark dies, and another shark keeps swimming

a tiger dies, and some people mourning are mourning themselves

a person dies, and some people mourn and some people don't

a person dies, and some people mourn and some even applaud

a generation dies, and the next generation doesn't really mourn

a country dies, most of the time just leaving apocrypha

a country that doesn't leave apocrypha wasn't a real country

if it wasn't a real country, when it dies no one mourns

no one mourns, and the wind blows in vain

rivers flow in vain, washing over rocks in vain

glistening in vain, making vain ripples

the river dies, and it's not for man to mourn

the wind dies, and it's not for man to mourn

the river and wind make their way to the sea together, the sea as vast                 

          as Zhuangzi's sea

the vast sea dies, and you will have to die

the dragon king dies, and you will have to die

the moon doesn't mourn, there's no one on the moon

the stars don't mourn, the stars aren't flesh and blood

                                                                                                               November 11, 2014

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Bloom and Other Poems

translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein

New Directions, 2022

                 

INVISIBLE YET ENDURING LILACS ~

 

G E R A L D      M U R N A N E

INVENTOR OF THE FUTURE ( BUCKY ) ~

 

B U C K Y

ARCHIVE: ZEPHYRUS IMAGE ~

 

R E A D     M E

&

M O R E

MOSES WILLIAMS & HIS ONE-STRING INSTRUMENT ~

 

Dust-to-Digital

2012

GEORGE BOOTH ~

 

G E O R G E     B O O T H

1926 ~ 2022

READ ME, I'M IMPORTANT ~

 

R E A D

WORLD RECEIVERS ~

 

R E A D      M E

The above is a review of the exhibit

concentrating on Georgiana Houghton

Hilma Af Klint and Emma Kunz,

whose names also make it onto

the front cover of the book —

yet, strangely, Harry Smith

and John Whitney and

James Whitney are

also showcased in the book

with little headline benefit.

The guys get to see how neglect feels.

(Harry knows)

It remains an excellent catalogue.

____________________________

Hirmer, 2018

JEANETTE WINTERSON ~

 

Grove, 2021

THIS WOMAN'S WORK, ESSAYS ON MUSC ~

 

R E A D     M E

TEN YEARS AND A THOUSAND BOOKS IN PRISON (DANIEL GENIS) ~

 

R E A D    M E

Penguin Random House

2022