SHIRLEY CLARKE'S ~ ROBERT FROST ~

 

THE LOST ART OF READING ~

 

_________________________________

Another title taken off the shelf

of my separate library of 

only small books built into

 the door casing of our bedroom door —

books on one side, beauty on the other side —

I returned to read this book after a few years

and it doesn't disappoint the true reader,

the fabulous reader (one with always a book going, always)

journeying with us into the world of

 forgotten authors like Alexander Trocchi

which is handled masterfully, this heroin

soaked master storyteller and also into

the young mind of Frank Conroy's Stop-Time

and somehow, even after reading 

forever portraits of Malcolm Lowry

and Jack Kerouac, Ulin has us on the road

with him and to poignant locations for

both authors, particularly Lowry, who

Ulin portrays vividly in one or two pages —

Then Ulin, darn it, ruins all the

care and culture of reading,

the passion that is essential

by bothering himself and thus us

with the stupid subject of the Internet.

As if it really means anything to the

passion of reading.

Book reading.

The art form

that many have died for, 

stolen, hoarded, hugged.

The Internet is a mere pest

compared to reading

Cain's Book.

[ BA ]

Sasquatch Books

2010

 

BOB DYLAN WELCOMES ~

 

BACK ROAD CHALKIE

Spring 2021

BLIND WILLIE MCTELL ~

 

BOB DYLAN'S BIRTHDAY ~

 

BOB DYLAN

&

THE BAND

IN THE

BASEMENT

GEESHIE WILEY ~

 

LEE GODIE (STREET ARTIST) ~

 

L E E      G O D I E

M O R E

MOVE (A CRIME) ~

 

M O V E

MALCOLM X ARISING ~

 

R E A D      M E

The Dead Are Arising

The Life of Malcom X

Les Payne, Tamara Payne

Norton 2020

Malcolm X guards his family in an iconic Ebony photo

ELIZABETH COTTON ~

 

sweetest

SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS ~

 New from Longhouse, Spring 2021 !

Sebastian Matthews ~ Best of the Classic Years

Three color booklet of new poems

by Sebastian in fold-out splendor.

 $8.95

(International orders please inquire)

order through Paypal with free shipping (use our email address of poetry@sover.net)

or a check to

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2021

BLUES MAN ~

 

B O B     K O E S T E R

photo: Sally Ryan

TINY BRADSHAW ~

 

Tiny Bradshaw

NO, MINE IS LARGER ~

 

LORINE NIEDECKER ~

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LORINE !

In Scotland they remember you!

LORINE NIEDECKER ~

 

My friend tree

I sawed you down

but I must attend

an older friend

the sun

You are my friend —

you bring me peaches

and the high bush cranberry

                        you carry

my fishpole

you water my worms

you patch my boot

with your mending kit

                        nothing in it

but my hand

Paul    

         when the leaves

                  fall

from their stems

          that lie thick

                   on the walk

in the light

          of the full note

                     the moon

playing

          to leaves

                       when they leave

the little

           thin things

                        Paul

I knew a clean man

but he was not for me.

Now I sew green aprons

over covered seats.  He

wades the muddy water fishing,

falls in, dries his last pay-check

in the sun, smooths it out

in Leaves of Grass.  He's

the one for me.

Remember my little granite pail?

The handle of it was blue.

Think what's got away in my life —

Was enough to carry me thru.

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Lorine Niedecker

from The Granite Pail

Gnomon Press, 1995

reprinted by permission of Bob Arnold

Literary Executor for the estate of Lorine Niedecker

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LORINE

photograph above:

Lorine Niedecker playing the ukelele near the Rock River as a young woman.

Hoard Historical Museum.

RECORD~RAMA ~

 

MERRILL GILFILLAN ~ TUNES MEANT FOR WHISTLING

 New from Longhouse, Spring 2021 ~

Merrill Gilfillan

TUNES MEANT FOR WHISTLING

Three color booklet of new poems

by Merrill in fold-out splendor.

Both signed and unsigned editions.



Signed limited edition $20
Unsigned $12.95

(International orders please inquire)

order through Paypal with free shipping (use our email address of poetry@sover.net)

or a check to

Longhouse, PO Box 2454, West Brattleboro, VT 05303

Longhouse

Publishers & Booksellers

Green River, Vermont

2021

DOCK BOGGS ~

 

TAMPA RED ~