TEN YEARS AND A THOUSAND BOOKS IN PRISON (DANIEL GENIS) ~

 

R E A D    M E

Penguin Random House

2022

EARL HOOKER ~

 

JERRY LEE LEWIS ~

 

JERRY  LEE  LEWIS

1935~ 2022

NAN SHEPHERD ~

 

N A N     S H E P H E R D

Canongate, 2019

KENT JOHNSON ~

 

K E N T      J O H N S O N

1955 ~ 2022

"Sail on, great friend!"

ALBERT AYLER, REVELATIONS ~

 

R E A D     M E

PAMELA MORDECAI ~

 

Yellow Girl Blues

                                     for Jane King

My mama she done told me

she tell me every day

no mind your skin is yellow

you're a nigger anyway.

Yellow girl blues

yellow girl blues

I walking on the muddy road

in my sampata shoes.

So I grew up a nigger

please check on my behind,

my mouth, my nose, my curly

hair— I'm glad to know my kind.

Yellow girl blues

yellow girl blues.

I walking on the muddy road

in my sampata shoes.

And I go to America

and join in all the fights

sit in and demonstrate

and go to jail for Civil Rights.

Yellow girl blues

yellow girl blues.

I walk through so much macca

there's holes in all my shoes.

Dr King say it don't matter

he say we all is one —

the hose don't know the difference

nor the truncheon, nor the gun.

Yellow girl blues

yellow girl blues.

I feel the firewater

as it soak in through my shoes.

Now I come north to Canada

my story it is true

they look me in my face and say

"White woman, who is you?"

Yellow girl blues

yellow girl blues.

I walking in the macca still

and my own take away my shoes.

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A Fierce Green Place

New and Selected Poems

New Directions, 2022

FORREST CITY JOE, TRAIN TIME ~

 

NEIL POSTMAN ~ TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ~

 

NEIL   POSTMAN

JAMES BOOKER ~

 

PETER SCHJELDAHL ~

 

Peter Schjeldahl with his wife, Brooke Alderson, in 1981. Mr. Schjeldahl wrote about New York’s art world with undiminished enthusiasm for more than half a century.Credit...Sheree Rose

P E T E R    S C H J E L D A H L

March 20, 1942 (Fargo, N.D.) ~ NY. 2022

JHUMPA LAHIRI ~

 

R E A D     M E

MARY McCASLIN ~

M A R Y    M c C A S L I N

Dec. 22, 1946 ~ Oct. 2, 2022, at her home in Hemet, Calif.

 

RON PADGETT ~

 

Another Thing That Annoys Me

The spelling of 40. We have four and fourteen, and then, for

no reason I know of, the u is dropped and we're left with forty,

not to mention the schizophrenic forty-four. Most annoying, as

Sei Shōnagon would say.

__________________

Ron Padgett

Dot

Coffee House Books

2022

photograph ~ Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

BOB ARNOLD'S : TO BE OF USE ~

 

Bob Arnold

— To Be Of Use —

Longhouse 2022

Over two dozen

New Poems

Many-colored

& limited

$12

Free shipping

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ROCK ON FILM (TCM) ~

 

This book is ten times finer than you may think

GUIDO MORSELLI ~

 

R E A D     M E

WERNER HERZOG ~

 

Werner Herzog

The Twilight World

Penguin, 2021

LINDA NOCHLIN ~

 

Linda Nochlin teaching an art history class, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1959. Archives & Special Collections, Vassar College Library.

R E A D    M E

TEXAS BLUES MAN ~