A Burrowing Owl near Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. It is standing on one leg.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM ~
Imogen Cunningham and Twinka (Thiebaud) at Yosemite (1974)
photo : Judy Dater
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Born in Portland, Oregon in 1883, Imogen Cunningham bought her first camera when she was eighteen years old — a 4 x 5 inch view finder — although she lost interest with her first fling as a photographer, she picked the camera up again in 1906 after an encounter with the work of Gertrude Kasebier. By the next year she was working with ethnologist and photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis in his Seattle studio. A life of photography ensued — brilliant botanical pieces, nudes, portraits, wild and industrial landscapes. A fascinating long life, the photographer passed away in San Francisco in 1973.
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Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley 1953
Edward Weston and Charis Wilson Weston at Point Lobos, 1945
Self-portrait in 1863 Costume, 1909
Black and white lilies 2, 1920s
Callas, 1925
Dream Walking, 1968
Frida Kahlo Rivera, 1931
Kenneth Rexroth, Poet, and Mariana Rexroth, 1953
Martha Graham 2, 1931
Cary Grant, Actor, 1932
Evan Connell, Writer, 1956
Imogen!
Ruth Asawa, Sculptor, 1963
Self-Portrait With Grandchildren in Funhouse, 1955
Sherwood Anderson and Elizabeth Prall, about 1923
The Poet and His Alter Ego, 1962
(james broughton)
Zebra, about 1921
My Father at Ninety, 1956
Navaho Rug, 1968
Self-Portrait With Morris Graves 1, 1973
The Dream, 1910
Tree at Donner Pass, 1925
Wynn Bullock, Photographer, 1966
http://www.imogencunningham.com/
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
GIOVANNA SANDRI ~
Giovanna Sandri
only fragments found
selected poems 1969~1998
only fragments found
selected poems 1969~1998
www.otis.edu/graduate-writing/seismicity-editions
Monday, February 17, 2014
CID CORMAN ~
I would always rather support and boost a work of poetry — lord knows it's tough enough out there between the posers and the professionals — and I'm always on the outlook for that riveting collection of haiku poems in English — but this isn't it, although it takes a fair shot at it. Half the poems are deadwood, so be warned, and the other half are good lumber. Deeply grained. Many of the poets in the anthology who should have had multiple poems (while the editors themselves should have had less of their poems) unfortunately didn't happen. There are strong showings by Cid Corman, Gary Hotham, John Martone, Penny Harter, Vincent Tripi, Peter Yovu . . . and poets that normally kill me on the spot: Steve Sanfield, John Brandi, Thomas C. Clark, John Phillips, Ronald Baatz, have only one poem each. It hurts to watch. Joseph Massey may have the best poem in the whole book. And who is missing will make you shudder and hear an echo.
Harvard contacted here a year ago to receive permission to release this outstanding reading by Cid in 1961. I was all ears. "By all means." I asked someone there to make contact when the site would be available and this must have slipped someone's mind, but then a poet friend knew best and sent the link. It's the wonderful patchwork quilting of the poetry trade.
On this recording Cid speaks his own early poems, as well as breathes life into Louis Zukofsky —
it's not to be missed.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom/listeningbooth/poets/corman.cfm
edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, Allan Burns
Norton 2013
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
LOVE ~
Translators
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DEBEN BHATTACHARYA,
ROBERT BLY,
DILIP CHITRE,
ANANDA COOMARASWAMY,
VIDYA DEHEJIA,
HANK HEIFETZ AND V. NARAYANA RAO,
LINDA HESS AND SHUKDEO SINGH,
JANE HIRSHFIELD,
ARUN KOLATKAR,
DENISE LEVERTOV AND EDWARD C. DIMOCK JR.,
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA,
W.S. MERWIN AND J. MOUSSAIEFF MASSON,
LEONARD NATHAN AND CLINTON SEELY,
GIEVE PATEL,
EZRA POUND,
A.K. RAMANUJAN,
ANDREW SCHELLING,
GARY SNYDER,
CHASE TWICHELL AND TONY K. STEWART
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Love and the Turning Seasons
India's Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing
edited by Andrew Schelling
Introduction by Eliot Weinberger
C O U N T E R P O I N T
2014
we're pleased to announce
many of the poems in this captivating collection
first appeared as booklets from Longhouse
many of the poems in this captivating collection
first appeared as booklets from Longhouse
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
FILM ARCHIVE ~
(1985)
Not at all for public eyes, and simply how I've filed away films the past year, I thought I'd share this list for friends of the Birdhouse. Again, none of this is for the public, so imagine you are not.
When I scan over various lists year after year, of films or books or music, most seem built to either impress the reader or to make some statement. No statement here. It's the way the chips fall. It's how films came to me, and often via the satellite dish reception, which is out there in the woods and snow. Or what I still glean from town libraries, but I'm doing much less of that these days. I can now pull almost all Criterion films right off my Roku contraption. An old friend, long gone, who used to assist us on retrieving such things over the Internet, the 'sky', or far towns, will get a kick out of knowing we're still keeping-on and finding good stuff.
Curiously, not many foreign films are listed here, which I watch regularly, although the first film noted is top shelf Europa. Many of these films came off the Turner Classic Movies station c/o Robert Osborne which is like a nice little neighborhood bakery you can't do without. Everyone mentions greater and grander bakeries and dishes and sweets, but here you are sticking to your faithful and tiny shop — Osborne's — day after day. A little bell on the door as you walk in.
The films are noted in no order of importance. It's how each film was registered, others erased, others kept and re-watched many times.
I do consider Claude Lanzmann's Shoah the greatest film ever made. Five minutes, heck, five seconds of Shoah equals all of Citizen Kane. The camera work alone is incredible. The commentary overwhelming. The portraits unforgettable . . . no matter what else comes your way. I watched the film when it was first released and recently watched it again, all six discs, because Sweetheart had never seen it. A masterpiece nine and a half hours long (shaved down from 350 hours of footage). You'll want someone sitting with you.
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SHOAH
BLACK NARCISSUS
HAROLD AND MAUDE
PARIS, TEXAS
THE GAME
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
THE KILLING (Kubrick)
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
THE WILD BUNCH
REAR WINDOW
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
DR. STRANGELOVE
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
THE GRADUATE
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
CAPE FEAR (original)
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
WITHNAIL AND I
CITY LIGHTS
WHERE DANGER LIVES
DIABOLIQUE (original)
NIAGARA
GUN CRAZY
LADY IN THE LAKE
BADLANDS
BONNIE AND CLYDE
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
POINT BLANK
YOJIMBO
ANGEL FACE
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
KISS ME DEADLY
NOTORIOUS
THE VIRGIN SPRING
WE OWN THE NIGHT
A PLACE IN THE SUN
TENSION
PAYBACK
INDIA: MATRI BHUMI
LOUIS C.K. OH MY GOD
HIGH SIERRA
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
OUT OF THE PAST
DARK PASSAGE
SEVEN SAMURAI
LE SAUVAGE
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
VERTIGO
IN A LONELY PLACE
NIGHTMARE ALLEY
ANDREI RUBLEV
FUNNY GAMES (original)
THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
That's enough.
Oh! ALL the films of BUSTER KEATON. Place them, respectfully, right next to SHOAH.
Again, this is not a favorite films list — though many of my favorites are here — it's films that came to me the past year and I kept awhile in an archive to watch, and watch again.
Sweetheart and I now laugh when we think how when in our woods cabin on Saturday night, circa 1974, deep in snow piles and no tv in our midst for the next ten years, how we often dreamt on those nights how nice it would be to sit with a film. So far from town, no one it seemed for miles around, just the river and the stars and the silence. Just.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
DROP OUTS ~
BAGHDAD
— A group of Sunni militants attending a suicide bombing training class
at a camp north of Baghdad were killed on Monday when their commander
unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with
explosives, army and police officials said.
The
militants belonged to a group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria, or ISIS, which is fighting the Shiite-dominated army of the Iraqi
government, mostly in Anbar Province. But they are also linked to bomb
attacks elsewhere and other fighting that has thrown Iraq deeper into
sectarian violence.
Twenty-two
ISIS members were killed, and 15 were wounded, in the explosion at the
camp, which is in a farming area in the northeastern province of Samara,
according to the police and army officials. Stores of other explosive
devices and heavy weapons were also kept there, the officials said.
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nytimes
ROBERT BRESSON ~
Donald Richie
(17 April 1924 – 19 February 2013)
Au Hasard Balthazar:
(dir: Robert Bresson)
"The world in an hour and a half"
Jean-Luc Godard
(dir: Robert Bresson)
"The world in an hour and a half"
Jean-Luc Godard
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