Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Raúl Gómez Jattin ~
Urban Poet
That poet from Bogotá
As a boy he never knew
the scent of wet earth
or the revealing touch of animals
or saw the river wash life away . . .
To make up for so many losses
he sets a bird free in every poem
Clouds come and clouds go
At each sunrise the sea
swells tides toward his forgetfulness
That poet
grows quiet when I write to him
about how man's most pressing tragedy
is his war against nature
He writes long poems
to a papier-mâché lover
You're no match for the flowers
Yours are tinplate stars
Your scenographic sea
doesn't reveal or give rise to memories
Poet
You must go to nature
To gaze upon it
To defend it
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Raúl Gómez Jattin
Almost Obscene
translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
& Olivia Lott
CSU, 2022
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
GARY PANTER'S PICTURE BOX ~
An intimate look at the work and life of a legendary artist. Gary Panter has been one of the most influential figures in visual culture since the mid-1970s. From his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon Jimbo to his visionary design for Pee-wee's Playhouse, he has left his mark on every medium he's touched. Working in close collaboration with the artist, PictureBox has assembled the definitive volume on Panter's work from the early 1970s to the present. This monumental, slipcased set is split into two 350-page volumes. The first is a comprehensive monograph featuring over 700 images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters and comics, alongside essays by Robert Storr, Mike Kelley, Richard Klein, Richard Gehr, Karrie Jacobs and Byron Coley, as well a substantial commentary by the artist himself. The second volume features a selection from Panter's sketchbooks--the site of some of his most audacious work--most of which has never been published in any form.
A three-time Emmy Award-winner for his production design on Pee-wee's Playhouse and the recipient of the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence, graphic artist Gary Panter has drawn inspiration from diverse vernacular and traditional art arenas over the course of the past four decades. Closely associated with the underground comics and music scenes on both coasts, he is responsible for designing the Screamers iconic 1970s poster, many record covers for Frank Zappa, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Residents and the ongoing comic character Jimbo. Most recently Panter has performed psychedelic light shows at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and at New York's Anthology Film Archives. He was a featured artist in the major 2006-2007 touring exhibition, Masters of American Comics.
PictureBox, 2008
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
ANN LAUTERBACH~
Door
I don't know who lives in those houses
with pastel doors, mint green
and pale salmon. Whoever heard of a lavender
door in the middle of winter, as if
snow could dilute
alizarin crimson, saturated lapis,
deepest cobalt blue. Perhaps
they imagine a kinder welcome.
Girls not able to reach the knobs,
their pink shoes and tired crayons;
boys with missing teeth; the dog barking.
Or an elder in slippers and gown
recalling the pale sprigs of April, the scent of lilac.
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Ann Lauterbach
Door
Penguin, 2023
Monday, January 8, 2024
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Saturday, January 6, 2024
SAM RIVERS ~
Beatrice · Sam Rivers · Jaki Byard · Ron Carter · Tony Williams Fuchsia Swing Song ℗ 2015 Rivbea Music Released on: 2015-05-22 Mixer: Rudy Van Gelder Producer: Alfred Lion Composer: Sam Rivers Music Publisher: Rivbea Music (BMI)
Friday, January 5, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
BEN LERNER ~
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No Art
Tonight I can't remember why
everything is permitted or,
what amounts to the same thing,
forbidden. No art is total, even
theirs, even though it raises
towers or kills from the air,
there's too much piety in despair
as if the silver leaves behind
the glass were politics
and the wind they move in
and the chance of scattered
storms. Those are still
my ways of making and
I know that I can call on you
until you're real enough
to turn from. Maybe I have fallen
behind, am falling, but
I think of myself as having
people, a small people
in a failed state, and love
more avant-garde than shame
or the easy distances.
All my people are with me now
the way the light is.
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Ben Lerner
The Lights
Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
MILAN KUNDERA ~
Who is a vandal? It is absolutely not the illiterate peasant who in a fit of fury sets fire to the rich landowner's mansion. The vandals I myself run into are all of them educated, pleased with themselves, socially well situated, and not especially resentful toward anyone. The vandal, rather, is that prideful narrow mind, pleased with itself and ever ready to claim its rights. That proud narrow-minded fellow believes that the power to fit the world to his own image is among his inalienable rights and, since the world is largely made up of matters beyond his capacities, he adapts the world to his image by destroying it. Thus, an adolescent knocks the head off some statue in a park because the statue infuriatingly seems a better human than he; and since any act of self-affirmation brings man satisfaction, he does it with delight. Men who live only their only contextless present, who know nothing of the historical continuity around it and who lack culture, can transform their nation into a desert with no history, no memory, no echoes, and untouched by beauty.
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MILAN KUNDERA
"Address to the Czech Writers' Congress:
The Literature of Small Nations"
( 1967 )
translated from the French by Linda Asher
from:
Milan Kundera
A Kidnapped West
The Tragedy of Central Europe
Harper, 2023
Monday, January 1, 2024
Sunday, December 31, 2023
ALL YOU FONIES (WOODY GUTHRIE) NEVER GIT DRUNK NO MORE ~
Dropkick Murphys / Nikki Lane
lyrics:
Woody Guthrie
OPIKA PENDE AFRICA AT 78 RPM ~
"Opika Pende: Africa at 78rpm" is a 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78rpm recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD until now.
Dust-to-Digital
2011
Saturday, December 30, 2023
LOTS OF NEW TITLES AT LONGHOUSE ~
~ LATELY FROM LONGHOUSE ~
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A solar array of new fold-outs, bus-tickets and books
The "bus-tickets" and foldout accordion chaplets
are a survey of poetry as comprehensive
and complete as a chapbook of poems
Most titles also come signed by the poet
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A memoir, giant photo album, and selected poems 1974-2022
Bob Arnold, Faraway Like the Deer's Eye
2022
442 full-color pages
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The story of Wes, a young man born free and
wishing to stay free despite the pitfalls. . .
Told from the perspective of a father's open letter
168 pages, perfect bound, prose
2024
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Bob Arnold, Full of Days
2023
4 color booklets of new poems
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Bob Arnold, To Be Of Use
~ a book of tools ~
poems
2023
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A book of many books!
Bill Bathurst, The Collected Bill Bathurst
w/ a forward by Clifford Burke
2022
poetry & prose
240 pages, perfect bound
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Guy Birchard
Ishmael
One poem postcard, many color
Winter 2020
Part of the "Fabulous Futures" Postcard series
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Samuel Green, A Swatch of Love Poems
2022
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Jonathan Green, Letters from a Hermit in the Eye of a Storm
2022
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Poetry
Kent Johnson, After Horace
2022
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Poems
Alexander Shalom Joseph, when it is so beautiful as it is
2023
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Book of new poems ~
Robin Magowan, An Eye in the Wind
2023
120 pages, perfect bound
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Poems
Jerry Martien, Border Lines
2023
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Poetry & Prose
Jerry Martien, Freeman House
2023
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Translations ~
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Rahim: Dohas
2023
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Resting Places 1 & 2
w/ a series of photographs from India by the author
2023
Two booklets of poetry & photographs
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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Poems
Margaret Randall, Room 5007
2023
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Margaret Randall, Your Answer Is Your Map
2023
Poems & photographs by the poet
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Margaret Randall, translation of
"Love Thy Poet Forever" postcard series
2024
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Poetry
Michael Rothenberg, The Death of Humanity
2023
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Poems
Andrew Schelling, Forest Temples Glacial Rivers
2023
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More Poems
Andrew Schelling, New Morning
2023
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Even More Poems
Andrew Schelling, Persephone Thy Ancient Midden
2022
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New poems of the Sanskrit
drawn by Andrew Schelling
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Vinod Kumar Shukla,
translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
I Step Out To Go Next Door
2023
w/ photographs by Shashwat Gopal
of the poet at home
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Margaret Randall, translator
"Love Thy Poet Forever" postcard series 2024
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Anne Waldman (text) / Diana Lizette Rodriguez (art)
Strange Light in the Lodge
"Fabulous Futures" Postcard Series 2021
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J. D. Whitney
"130 poems to take you over the moon" [ BA ]
136 pages, perfect bound
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J. D. Whitney
My Father Dead
One long poem broadside
a Longhouse Flip-Phone
Thanksgiving 2021
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J. D. Whitney
My
A Fabulous Futures Flip-Phone long card poem
Winter 2020
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J. D. Whitney
Oklahoma
"A Fabulous Futures" many color postcard 2020
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Finn Wilcox, Six Poems for Maor
2022
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Issued from Longhouse
2022-2023
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