FRED BASS (THE STRAND) ~

F R E D      B A S S

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HEAVEN LAKE ~

Heaven Lake ~ by Bob Arnold

New from Longhouse for 2018

Longhouse 2018

172 pages
 4 page color insert

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Poetry

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GUN CRAZY ~

Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy's iconic femme fatale, dies aged 92

M O R E

MURAL ~

R E A D      M O R E

Verso 2017

DARLING COMPANION ~

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Darling Companion

We’ve come to the end of the highway

Breathless on the Panamint Range

You in a dress all blue buttoned

Down to the knees and a

Breeze parting your sweater —

I have a photograph where

You stand in sage against

A Route 395 road sign

Pointing us either north

Or south along a high

Spring snow Sierra sky with

No possible ending to the day

Yes I Can

We can’t afford

the quart of new

blueberries and

soft raspberries

but I can take

one of each off

the top and put

them in your mouth

Dance

I love her a bunch

but I love her maybe

the most when she

dances, and better

dances towards me,

with no one else

around or else our

minds would be on

something else, and

it’s in our living room

and some music comes 

on from the 60s and

she jumps up and with

no hesitation just starts

to dance, growing younger

by the second, and I can’t

tell if it’s music any longer

I’m feeling or is it her, the

hair, the eyes, the hands

beckoning me and only me

this is the wild of women —

if you’re stupid

you’ll continue to persist

in your thinking that man

is the king of the jungle

Vow

You can think there is

But there is nothing

Quite like you undressing

Me who has undressed you

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BOB ARNOLD

I'm In Love With You

Who Is In Love With Me

Longhouse 2012

WE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DARKER THAN BLUE ~

PRIVATE CONCERT ~

ROYALS ~

WEDDING ~

Fill the Void

DEEP PEACE ~

MY LOVE ~

TITANIC BLUES ~

CZESLAW MILOSZ ~

PHILIP WHALEN (BOLINAS, KYOTO, ZURICH) ~

YOKO ONO ~

ALL THE KING'S HORSES ~

TIME OF GRATITUDE ~

Heard enough about Russia, this year, have you?

Take a different route and read from the growing opus (thanks to translator Peter France) of the Russian poet and essayist and all-around man of the folk and outdoors Gennady Aygi.

 Born in the small Soviet republic of Chuvashia, Aygi takes us by the arm through fields of poetry and over mud roads and with this modest book of essays to poets that have meant the world to him: Khlebnikov, Kruchoeykh, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and then to neighboring wonders: Kafka, Transformer, Celan and Rene Char.

New Directions publishers have been keeping the Aygi book cupboard full.

New Directions, 2017

HENCE ~

Hence



sculpted minarets

of clouds gone



hence — or thence?



No dreams

are that well formed.




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No one can depict



the absolute bracelets

of the orbits



touched upon

by electrons



as feeling dithers

between words




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Rae Armantrout
ENTANGLEMENTS
Wesleyan 2017

THE BOOK OF DISQUIET ~

Here it is — another edition of the one masterpiece

M O R E !

PHILOMENA ~