http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/10/dylan-goes-electric-elijah-wald-review-when-bob-took-stratocaster-newport-folk-festival
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
GUNMAN ~
Jean-Patrick Manchette
If you're read Chandler, Goodis and Jim Thompson
and not Manchette,
well then you've missed Manchette.
Get cracking!
The New York Review of Books will be more than helpful.
I've read The Mad and the Bad and I've let some time lapse
before I curled up and died with Fatale.
Go!
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
WANG WEI ~
Stone Gate Monastery on Mount Lantian
In the setting sun, mountains and waters were lovely.
The tossing boat trusted the home-blowing wind.
Enjoying the strangeness, unaware of distance,
I followed all the way to the source of the spring.
Afar I loved the lushness of clouds and trees;
At first I thought the route was not the same.
How could I know the clear flow turned?
Suddenly I passed through the mountain ahead.
I left the boat and readied my light staff,
Truly satisfied with what I encountered:
Old monks — four or five men,
At leisure in the shade of pine and cypress.
At morning chants the forest has not yet dawned;
During night mediation, mountains are even stiller.
Their minds of the Tao reach to shepherd boys;
They ask a woodman about worldly affairs.
At night they lodge beneath the tall forest;
Burning incense, they sleep on clean white mats.
The valley stream's fragrance pervades men's clothes;
The mountain moon illumines the stone walls.
Seeking again I fear I'd lose the way;
Tomorrow I will go out to continue my climb.
Smiling I'll leave the men of Peach Blossom Spring:
When blossoms are red I will come to see them again.
________________
Wang Wei
tr. Pauline Yu
ZEN POEMS
Everyman Library Pocket Poets, 1999
ed. Peter Harris
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
César Aira ~
New Directions, 2015
If Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino had a literary child
(where's this going?)
it just might be César Aira.
Have a look into The Musical Brain (New Directions 2015)
and tell me what you think.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
RAE ARMANTROUT ~
Rae Armantrout
photo: Becky Cohen
T H E S C O R E
1
One poet
slips out
what each sentence
begins to say —
a magician
freeing himself
from the underwater
cage.
2
"They tell me I got this
Alzheimer's. I don't
know," he says
to the moderator,
as if doubt
were a way
to catch
one's fall
3
Folds
in the clear
curtains, columns
at dusk
scored by slant
ripples,
marked by stacked
apexes,
making some points
_________________
Rae Armantrout
ITSELF
Wesleyan University Press 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
ALFRED HAYES ~
New York Review of Books, 2013
If you like film noir, and noir novels, this may be one you missed. An absolutely ideal book to read in one-sitting under your favorite summer shade tree.
Alfred Hayes (1911–1985) was born into a Jewish family in Whitechapel, London, though his father, a barber, trained violinist, and sometime bookie, moved the family to New York when Hayes was three. After attending City College, Hayes worked as a reporter for the New York American and Daily Mirror and began to publish poetry, including “Joe Hill,” about the legendary labor organizer, which was later set to music by the composer Earl Robinson and recorded by Joan Baez. During World War II Hayes was assigned to a special services unit in Italy; after the war he stayed on in Rome, where he contributed to the story development and scripts of several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà (1946) and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948), and gathered material for two popular novels, All Thy Conquests (1946) and The Girl on the Via Flaminia(1949), the latter the basis for the 1953 film Act of Love, starring Kirk Douglas. In the late 1940s Hayes went to work in Hollywood, writing screenplays for Clash by Night, A Hatful of Rain, The Left Hand of God, Joy in the Morning, and Fritz Lang’s Human Desire, as well as scripts for television. Hayes was the author of seven novels, a collection of stories, and three volumes of poetry. In addition to My Face for the World to See, NYRB Classics publishes In Love.
David Thomson, film critic, writes a fine appreciation of Hayes fitting the tone .
"The most vivid picture of Hollywood since Nathaniel West's
Day of the Locust."
Nelson Algren
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
BAD GUYS ~
Knopf 2015
Where was this book when I needed just this book for a four day journey by train across America, or Canada, back in the years when I did such a thing with my true love? This book takes about 14 hours to read, stomach, stitch all the names together and study the map of where you will be in Mexico. It's also Don Winslow's best crime caper to date after a pretty lucrative career of many such novels. This is the zinger. Don't hesitate.
Monday, July 13, 2015
CORSINO FORTES ~
C O R S I N O F O R T E S
P R O P O S I T I O N
Year by year
skull by skull
Faces circle
the eye of the island
Where stone wells
open
in a goat's eye
And the earth's limbs
Erupt
In the mouths of the streets
Statue of bread alone
Statue of the sun's bread
Year by year
skull by skull
Drums break
the promise of the earth
With rocks
Restoring to the mouths
Of many oars
______________
CORSINO FORTES
Selected Poems
translated from the Portuguese
by Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien
Archipelago Books 2015
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Saturday, July 11, 2015
JONATHAN WILLIAMS ~
Limited to 450 copies and a special edition of
50 copies signed by the photographer and authors and accompanied by a signed limited print
from Corn Close by
from Corn Close by
Rueben Cox.
Designed and typeset
in Eric Gill's Golden Cockerel and
Jovica Veljovic's Agmena Pro
by Jonathan Greene.
G R E E N S H A D E
P.O. Bo 668
Salisbury, CT. 06068
Friday, July 10, 2015
JAMES TATE ~
Dara Wier & James Tate
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5636/the-art-of-poetry-no-92-james-tate
J A M E S T A T E
( 1943 ~ 2015 )
THOMAS MEYER ~
forever it seems
we hear about
the whims of fame and fortune
their easy come their easy go
the hard lesson
they teach
everything we have
is a gift
we haven't earned a thing
just wait and they
will desert us
not if but when
____________________________________
Thomas Meyer
Essay Stanzas
The Song Cave 2014
it's worthwhile
no doubt
to think about stuff
but who
in this world
can take apart
the wind
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
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