PETER HANDKE ~

R E A D   M E 

       Farrar, Straus, Giroux 

     2025

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE EVERYBODY SCREAM ~

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JOHNNY CASH ~ THE MAN IN BLACK ~

 

          HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY CASH

Johnny Cash, A fly-on-the-wall account that follows the near-legendary singer on tour in the USA during the late sixties. Crammed with superb music footage the film also takes time out to relax with the man behind the most famous voice in Country music.

HISPANIC TRADITIONS TONIGHT ~

 

        Smithsonian Folkways 1992

MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE ~

 

R E A D   M E

       new edition ~

      Nightboat Books 2025

JOSEPHINE FOSTER TONIGHT ~

 

     Locust Music

      2006

FRANK STANFORD ~

 

R E A D   M E

      University of Arkansas Press

      2025

U. UTAH PHILLIPS TONIGHT ~

 

℗ 1992 AK Press

HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER ~

 

s h a d o w  &  r e a l m

i

here even now i see a place,

a free place,

here in the shadow.

ii

this shadow

is not for sale.

iii

the sea too

casts a shadow perhaps,

and so does time.

iv

the wars of shadows

are games:

no shadow

stands in another's light.

v

those who live in the shadow

are difficult to kill.

vi

for awhile

i step out of my shadow,

for a while.

vii

those who want to see light

as it is

must retire

into the shadow.

viii

shadow

brighter than the sun:

cool shadow of freedom.

ix

completely in the shadow

my shadow disappears.

x

in the shadow

even now there is room.

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HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

translated by Michael Hamburger

poems for people who don't read poems

Atheneum 1968

HEATHER MALONEY TONIGHT ~

 

   Signature Sounds

  2025

PATRICIA SMITH ~

 

A Poem for the Man Who Shot My Father

I don't know where you are now,

so for the purposes of this poem

I will imagine you are dead.

The circumstances of your death

should be ironic.  A bullet smashes into

the back of your skull. A bullet

smashes into the back

of your skull.  A bullet smashes

into the back

of your skull.

A coincidence.

For the purposes of this poem, but only

for the purposes

of this poem,

I will imagine you in a hell

where you are scraped and torched

each second, every second,

and you feel it all,

you feel everything.

For the purposes of this poem

I would like you to describe

my father's face

the moment he turned

and saw you

                wild-eyed and thirsty

the moment he knew

the moment before he turned away

to run

And for the purposes

of this poem, I hold

that picture in my head.  I will live

over

and

over

that look of an animal dazed

in the headlights

because, even though

I have imagined you dead,

you are probably not too dead to remember

that there is a hell

here too.

_____________________

Patricia Smith

The Intentions of Thunder

New and Selected Poems

Scribner, 2025

JOHN FRUSCIANTE TONIGHT ~

 

℗ 2001 Warner Records Inc. Assistant Mix Engineer Mixer: Brian Grimmel Mixer: Jimmy Boyle Performed By: John Frusciante Producer, Vocals: John Frusciante Masterer: Vlado Meller Writer: John Frusciante

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA ~

 

House of Peeling Walls

I leave this house to the birds in the birdbath

To the leaves that float down like feathers from the sky

To the Lakhori brick I hold in my hand

To the black ants that live inside the walls

To their ears that hear thunder before there's thunder to be heard

To the irises that climb over stones when they get in the way

To the shingles that came down rivers when there were rivers

To the flowering clover that spreads like fire

To the buttress root that uprooted the garden shed

To the dawn that widens the crack in its road when light seeps in

To the bougainvillea twigs thorning the ground I step on

To the woodpile stacked against a leaning wall

To the new leaves of March that arrive with a cracker burst

To the rose vine that doesn't know where to stop

To the water in the iron bucket

To the squirrel that darts round the corner of a medium-sized country

______________________________

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA

Of Least Concern

Centre for the Creative and the Critcal

2025