STORIES OF ROBERT SHECKLEY ~

N E W   Y O R K   R E V I E W   O F   B O O K S

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/robert-sheckleys-store-of-the-worlds-reviewed-by-michael-dirda/2012/05/16/gIQAVzmpUU_story.html

 

FLANN O' BRIEN ~

Dalkey Archive, 2013

read an excerpt ~

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/07/fiction/drink-and-time-in-dublin

MICHAEL KRUGER ~

 

What Times Are These




Yesterday, in the wood,

a serious talk

with the trees:

if we had our way,

ran their rustling discourse,

there would be no such thing as nature.

What about us, I asked,

alarmed at the prospect of loss,

what on earth would we do without it?

You'd have to make,

out of second, first nature,

answered the trees,

and deal with it

just as you deal with us.

And in the meantime,

the leaves whispered fervently,

we would run wild, wilder than wild,

so that you, as strangers,

could, later, discover us once again.

When they had said this

they vanished for ever.


 ______________ 

 Diderot's Cat
M I C H A E L    K R U G E R
translated by Richard Dove
selected poems
Carcanet Press 1993

 

COLDPLAY ~

 

 

5 ROYALES ~

KAY RYAN ~

K A Y    R Y A N

EGGS



We turn out

as tippy as

eggs. Legs

are an illusion.

We are held

as in a carton

if someone

loves us.

It's a pity

only loss

proves this.







STILL START



As if engine

parts could be

wrenched out

at random and

the car would

still start and

sound even,

hearts can go

with chambers

broken open.







THINGS THAT HAVE
STAYED IN POSITION



Things that have

stayed in position

may nevertheless

have almost no

root system. You

could unstick

and slide them

like chess pieces.

Much of this

apparently tenacious

earth is fairly slick.



___________________


KAY RYAN
Erratic Facts
Grove 2015

ANGELS (JONAS MEKAS) ~

J O N A S    M E K A S

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/jonas-mekas-refuses-to-fade.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

 

 

http://jonasmekas.com/diary/ 

 

 

ERIK SATIE ~

MILAN KUNDERA ~

M I L A N    K U N D E R A

The Paris Review Interview

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2977/the-art-of-fiction-no-81-milan-kundera

JESSI COLTER ~

http://www.officialjessicolter.com/index-alt.html

INUKSUIT ~

 The first comprehensive book about the Arctic's

mysterious stone figures called inuksuit, as told 

by Inuit elders to Norman Hallendy together with

his classic and out-rock photographs

Douglas & McIntyre

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JOHN BRADLEY MEETS HENRY FORD & BILLY THE KID ~

 A  N  D     T  H  E  R  E  B  Y     E  V  E  R  Y  T  H  I  N  G

by John Bradley

L O N G H O U S E is very proud to announce a new book by John Bradley in their on going series of S C O U T book publications — other titles from the series have been by Kent Johnson, Janine Pommy Vega, James Koller, Bob Arnold and Lorine Niedecker with more in the works. An opening salvo at the front of the book by Patrick Lawler should provide ample cover for what the reader should come to expect.

And Thereby Everything
John Bradley
Longhouse 2015

First edition

only issued in softcover

208 pages, perfect bound

illustrated throughout by Bob Arnold 
with 150 photographs

 "John Bradley is a conjurer of conjunction and conjugation. Indeed, he does “speak his spark” from Old West to sold-out Hollywood, from Firestone to Sharon Stone to tombstone, from assembly line to disassembled line. His “language is a noise, noose, nuisance nuptial,” and And Thereby Everything—is everything. Maybe this book is why there was a Billy the Kid (“boy-bandit-king”) and Henry (Fordlandia) Ford. Maybe this book is why there is America. “Every story undulates another.” It is a tour de everything—a mix of aphorisms and dialogues and surrealistic lyrics with tics and “gears of history” and letters and plays and chorales featuring the voices of Adrienne Rich, Tony Soprano, George Zimmerman, Jean Harlow, Harpo Marx, Joan of Arc, et al. Burstingly funny and fiercely brilliant, this is Aaron Copland for dancers with clown shoes. This is Jack Spicer with a 1000 false clues and no place to hide. This is a Sam Peckinpah film starring Jane Russell as Billy with a soundtrack by Cotton Mather. John Bradley opened up America (with its dreams and icons, its violence and capitalism) and poured it inside this “Confusion Matrix” of a book. This is an American opera—maybe the only true American opera—starring, with all their desires and damage, with all their excess and dreams, Billy the Kid and Henry Ford as America."

— Patrick Lawler
author of Child Sings in the Womb and
 Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds

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THE CROSSROADS ~

PIERRE MARTORY   ~  JOHN ASHBERY

PARIS 1957

T H E    C R O S S R O A D S



The rubble is still to come.
The exciting night sky was shining yesterday
On the usual fits of insomnia.
The young man decides to go away
Away from an obscure horoscope
In search of an obscure destiny
In the encouraging silence of the gods.

The intersecting routes the lost maps
The name drowned in foreign languages
His father and mother never knew.
The young man takes his sack and his stick,
Leaves it all to chance, to his good luck,
Spins around, and, far from his flocks
Walks toward his first meeting.

It's a woman and it's a dog
She smiles and she yaps
Singing amid the scattered bones
Something resembling the absurd question
The young man has never asked himself
Which he answers without thinking.
The sky falls like a night on his shoulders
The dog-woman dies inside a long howl.

And when he tries to return, yesterday is tangled.
There is no more tree or star or bed
Or woman or question or horoscope.
The crossroads is only a line without risk.
Nothing moves, a thread stands out, red
Against the sun. The rubble
Starts to smoke as in the past never.





____________________ 

PIERRE MARTORY
translated by John Ashbery
The Landscapist, selected poems
The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008


http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/pierre-martory

PAY ATTENTION ~

PAY ATTENTION



It’d be

so cold



we’d warm

our clothes



right on the

woodstove



not near

the stove



on the

stove



be quick

about it  



______________ 




© Bob Arnold


from the forthcoming ~
The Woodcutter Talks

JERRY LEE LEWIS & FRIENDS ~

http://jerryleelewis.com/

M TRAIN & FLEET FOXES ~

Yes, the book is as good as they say it is. . .good medicine, and best read as a book and not an e-book contraption. 

Knopf still goes out of its way as a publisher to design a book that fits like a glove in your hands.

STREET CORNER SYMPHONY ~

http://www.singers.com/group/Persuasions/

 

KURT SCHWITTERS ~

B E R N A R D    J A C O B S E N    G A L L E R Y

http://www.artbook.com/9781872784526.html

BOB ARNOLD'S ~ THE WOODCUTTER TALKS ~

Drawing from years of poetry and also new poems, The Woodcutter Talks is Bob Arnold at his finest

branching love poems with back country work poems and settlement with community, family and 

individual portraits. The extensive collection also showcases vintage photographs from woodcutters

and woodchoppers and big-saw-pullers of old. Sweat runs down the cheeks of the mere literary and

they adore one another.

First edition
Longhouse 2015
only issued in softcover
234 pages perfect bound
w/ photographs

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NICK CAVE ~

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/magazine/i-am-the-real-nick-cave.html