HENRY THREADGILL ~

R E A D    M E

Knopf 2023

ROBIN MAGOWAN ~

Robin Magowan, An Eye in the Wind

illustrations by John Digby

Longhouse 2023

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MEMORY ROSE INTO THRESHOLD SPEECH ~

 

What happened?  The stone stepped out of the mountain.

Who woke up?  You and I.

Language, language.  Co-star.  By-earth.

Poorer.  Open. At home.

Where did it lead? Toward unfaded.

With the stone it went, with us two.

Heart and heart.  Judged too heavy.

Become heavier.  Be lighter.

—————————————

PAUL CELAN, NoOnesRose  (1963)

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech

translated by Pierre Joris

Farrar, 2022

DG NANOUK OKPIK ~

 

When White Hawks Come

I dreamt the spirit of the codfish:

in rafters of the mind;

fly out into the winter's blue night;

mirth off alder tendrils sashay;

while I set up my winter tent;

four panels long—beams suspend

blubber strips aged in a poke seal bag;

a bluejay lands on the windowsill wing feathers —

shadowing the sun as a new moon; as blue, lapis

icicle time melts—when white hawks come.

_________________________

dg nanouk okpik

blood snow

Wave Books, 2022

LEN CHANDLER ~

 

L E N   C H A N D L E R

David Gahr/Getty Images

THREE ROADS BACK ~

 

R E A D   M E

Princeton, 2023

CHARLES PORTIS ~

 

One of the finest 'finds' in the book world for 2023

The complete works!

You (me) busy with Butler, LeGuin, Adams, Kim Stanley Robinson

— comeback to Earth with Portis

[BA]

C H A R L E S    P O R T I S

Library of America

2023

TREECUTTER ~

 

THE EASY LIFE ~

R E A D    M E

TRAVELS IN THE AMERICAS W/ ALBERT CAMUS ~

 

R E A D     M E

The University of Chicago Press

2023

TOWN BLOODY HALL (C.Hegedus, D.A.Pennebaker -1971) ~

 

ALLEN GINSBERG (BEST MINDS) ~

 

R E A D     M E

BAMBI ~

 

Newly Translated by Damion Searls

New York Review of Books

2022

R E A D     M O R E

RICHARD DAVIS ~

 

R I C H A R D    D A V I S

The bassist Richard Davis in 1989 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a professor of music and music history from 1977 to 2016.Credit...Brent Nicastro, via University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives

DORA MAAR ~

 

MORE ANNIE ERNAUX ~

 

R E A D     M E

    Yale, 2023

GLORIA COATES ~

 

G L O R I A    C O A T E S

1933, Wausau, WI. ~ 2023

Gloria Coates, 2021

© Astrid Ackermann

                                     Symphony No. 4, "Chiaroscuro": I. Illumination

ALEXANDER SHALOM JOSEPH, "when it is so beautiful as it is" ~

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EDITH GROSSMAN ~

 

E D I T H    G R O S S M A N

1936 ~ 2023

The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979-1983 ~

 

S E E

KENNETH WHITE (1936~2023)

 

K E N N E T H    W H I T E

Fifty years on: the lasting tragedy of Chile’s coup ~

 

VICTOR  JARA

R E A D     M E

JOHN HURT ~

 

     Vanguard Records

OSAMU DAZAI ~

 

OSAMU   DAZAI

AMY CLAMPITT ~

 

Gooseberry Fool

The gooseberry’s no doubt an oddity,

an outlaw or pariah even—thorny

and tart as any

kindergarten martinet, it can harbor

like a fernseed, on its leaves’ under-

side, bad news for pine trees,

whereas the spruce

resists the blister rust

it’s host to. That veiny Chinese

lantern, its stolid jelly

of a fruit, not only has 

no aroma but is twice as tedious

as the wild strawberry’s sunburst

stem-end appendage: each one must

be between-nail-snipped at both extremities.

Altogether, gooseberry virtues

take some getting

used to, as does trepang,

tripe à la mode de Caen,

or having turned thirteen.

The acerbity of all things green

and adolescent lingers in 

it—the arrogant, shrinking,

prickling-in-every-direction thorn-

iness that loves no company except its,

or anyhow that’s what it gets:

bristling up through gooseberry ghetto sprawl

are braced thistles’ silvery, militantly symmetrical

defense machineries. Likewise inseparably en-

tangled in the disarray of an

uncultivated childhood, where gooseberry bushes (since

rooted out) once flourished, is

the squandered volupté of lemon-

yellow-petaled roses’ luscious flimflam—

an inkling of the mingling into one experience

of suave and sharp, whose supremely im-

probable and far-fetched culinary

embodiment is a gooseberry fool.

Tomorrow, having stumbled into

this trove of chief ingredients

(the other being very thickest cream)

I’ll demonstrate it for you. Ever since,

four summers ago, I first brought you,

a gleeful Ariel, the trophy

of a small sour handful,

I’ve wondered what not quite articulated thing

could render magical 

the green globe of an unripe berry.

I think now it was simply

the great globe itself’s too much to carry.

December 1981

Don't miss this unique biography — told with a

storyteller's charm.

[ BA ]

RR / RIDING THE FEATHER RIVER ROUTE ~

 

Riding a Union Pacific freight on the former Western Pacific line that runs over the Sierra Nevada and through the Plumas National Forest to the Central Valley of California . Featuring John E. Ringo

PATRICK STREET ~