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West Brattleboro, Vermont 05303
Hotel Montparnasse
Written in soap on the mirror in Vallejo's room:
Paul Celan does not like to be touched.
Remedios Varo does not like talking turnips.
Frida Kahlo will not eat uncooked termites.
Robert Desnos does not like to wear a tether.
Lenora Carrington does not like to be tickled.
Jerzy Kosinski does not like to cut his toenails.
Kiki will not go near a jar of pickled tonsils.
Frederico Garcia Lorca is allergic to pasta a' la Franco.
Charlotte Corday does not like a wet wig.
Apollinaire does not like to ride in a blimp.
Mayakovsky does not like to be truncated.
Julio Cortazar does not like a wet matchstick.
Gertrude Stein does not like to be called Twinkle Toes.
Joyce Mansour cannot tolerate the sound of a tuning fork.
Pablo Picasso will not dine near Charles Baudelaire.
Cesar Vallejo does not like giving birth to Cesar Vallejo.
[ Unsigned ]
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John Bradley
Hotel Montparnasse
Letters to Cesar Vallejo
Dos Madres, 2021
This glorious book of poems (portraits)
is an ideal finished film script for
Wes Anderson to now take over
Christopher Sorrentino’s parents, Gilbert and Vicki, circa 1972. Sorrentino examines their confounding marriage in his memoir, ‘Now Beacon, Now Sea.’Credit...via Christopher Sorrentino
(an excellent review
of this son's memoir)
Catapult, 2021
Railing
which is the light
which the shadow
Game
within my grasp
the angel burned
Then
beyond the rose
shadow
Night
old craftswoman
see what you've made by lying
another day
Justice
along came the bird
and devoured the worm
along came the man
and devoured the bird
along came the worm
and devoured the man
Eve Leaves
animal of salt
if you turn that head
on your body
you will become
and you will have a name
and the word
slithering
will be your footprint
Curriculum Vitae
let's say that you won the race
and that the prize
was another race
that you didn't drink champagne
but your own sweat
that you didn't hear cheering
but dogs barking
and that your own shadow
was your sole
and disloyal competitor
____________________
Blanca Varela (1926-2009)
Rough Song
translated by Carlos Lara
The Song Cave, 2020
Blood on the Fog, Tongo Eisen-Martin
City Lights Books, 2021
Collected Poems, Sonia Sanchez
Beacon Press, 2021
Antonin Artaud & Ear Collage ~
Diana Lizette Rodriguez (artist)
Dorothy Day's final arrest,
protesting with striking farm
workers in California, 1973
Photo by Bob Fitch