SONNY ROLLINS ~

 

S O N N Y     R O L L I N S

Hachette, 2022

THAT GUY, KENT JOHNSON ~

 

K E N T     J O H N S O N

INDIGENOUS CONTINENT ~

 

The Finnish historian Pekka Hamalainen, in Oxford, England. His book “Indigenous Continent” describes a “four-centuries-long war,” in which Native Americans “won as often as not.”Credit...Kalpesh Lathigra for The New York Times

R E A D     M E

STEVIE SMITH ~

 

ELMORE JAMES ~

 

CHIP KIDD ~

 

COLIN BARRETT ~

 

R E A D     M E

RICHARD HOLMES ( BIOGRAPHY ) ~

 

WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW (1971) ~

 

MIKE SEEGER (1964) ~

 

NOVELIST AS A VOCATION ~

 

R E A D     M E

WILL ALEXANDER ~

 

Ghostly Bonding by Kinetic

Since the living body persists

as strange accelerated crimson

what of its post-biology through ideas through ghostly bonding 

      with itself as kinetic?

does it persist within its after-state via chewn reindeer?

or does it unearth itself via post-mortem figment?

because kinetics reabsorb themselves

they remain trenchant

as certain owls

roaming the horizon as signs

___________________________

Will Alexander

Divine Blue Light

    for John Coltrane

City Lights Books 2022

OLAV H. HAUGE ~

Mountains Don't Attract Me Anymore

The mountains don't attract me anymore.

I've lived long enough between cold snowfields.

I still find my way in the woods, listen

to fall wind, and stop at the forest ponds,

engage with streams. Even late in the year

you can find good berries there.

You have to cross mountains if that's not enough.

Peaks stand there, so you know where you are.

______________________

Olav H. Hauge

The Dream We Carry

translated by Robert Bly

Copper Canyon Press, 2008

ELFRIEDE JELINEK / FURY ~

 

R E A D     M E

THE MONK'S RECORD PLAYER ~

 

R E A D    M E

An ugly as sin dust jacket but

the book is a delight to read

BABY BOY WARREN ~

 

GERRY LOOSE / TWELVE AIRS ~

 

song of the thrush

sense of sound on air

knowledge of tree space in thrush-song

thrush weight on the branch

thrush weight on air sense

song weight on air space

nuthatch

qui-qui-qui who

slant-stone-on-ice song

going up coming down

upside song a ring

downside voice ceol

a-breath a-voice a-song a-ring

mistle thrush

a high clear closure

in throat tuc-tuc-tuc

of smeòrach a psalm

of stormcock a fluting

of wood/wind a lament

a sanctus in livid sky

___________________

from TWELVE AIRS

Gerry Loose

Dockyard Press/Glasgow

2023

SON HOUSE ~

 

Recorded Live, 1964

Remastered by Ryan Smith

SOUND EXPERIMENTS ~

 

S O U N D     E X P E R I M E N T S

University of Chicago

2022

MERCY DEE ~