KOKOMO ~

 

   puppy dog

MATISSE AT WAR ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Citadel Press

     2025

PABLO NERUDA ~

 from Ode to Walt Whitman

Without

disdain

for the gifts

of the earth,

the capital's

abundant curves,

or the purple

initial

of wisdom,

you

taught me

to be an American,

you lifted my eyes

to books,

toward

the treasure

of the grain:

broad poet,

across the

clarity

of the plains,

you made me see

the high mountain

as my guardian.

translated from the Spanish 

by Martin Espada

___________________________

Pablo Neruda

BRAZILIAN MUSIC TONIGHT ~

 

THE DRAWINGS OF VICTOR HUGO ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Royal Academy of Arts

    2025

ROMARE BEARDEN ~

R E AD   M E 

     U/North Carolina Press

     2022

RICKY NELSON TONIGHT ~

 

1957

    Master Recorders

    Ricky Nelson

     James Burton

    1961

      Ricky Nelson

SAM SHEPARD ~

 

R E A D   M E

Scribner 2025

MICHAEL ONDAATJE ~

 

The First Rule of Sinhalese Architecture

Never build three doors

in a straight line

A devil might rush

through them

deep into your house

into your life

_____________________

Michael Ondaatje

The Distance of a Shout

Knopf 2026