Since 1971 I have been logging book, music, film reviews and rural-to-town commentary from Woodburners We Recommend. Susan tells me my chief readers are folks lost a moment looking for more information about their woodstoves. Sorry. The ‘Burners continues on another part of the Longhouse website. Woodburners On-Fire! will be a more concise overview — as if you have stopped on our back road and asked for instructions on how to get out, and instead I speak to you one of these reviews. Go well.
remembering
KEITH WILSON
MAX NEUHAUS
DEWEY MARTIN
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS / POETSAmiri Baraka, Ed Dorn & the Western World
Skanky Possum & Effing Press www.effingpress.com
Effing Press 703 W. 11th St. Austin, Texas 78701
freewheelin' reflections delivered in 2008 at the Ed Dorn Sympoium in Boulder, Colorado, covering Dorn as well as Baraka as well as USA small press histories. One to own.
POETRYDavid Giannini, Az Two
Adastra Press 16 Reservation Road Easthampton, Ma. 01027-1227
Az in two together, Az in a continuation of a longer work, Az in Arizona for some days the poet's eyes wide open, accepting, giving back in return minded "no time unshadowed".
for sale at Longhouse, please inquire
POETRYGeorge Bowering, Vermeer's Light
Talonbooks P.O. Box 2076 Vancouver , B.C. Canada V6B 3S3 www.talonbooks.com
with Bowering, as with Simon Pettet further down this list of fired-up books, poetry is a total recall of language meets anarchy meets craft meets deep pleasures page by page. You get in a car and it heads down a road or over a cliff, and all survive.
ART / POETRY
Jason Clark, Driven-Out, Ditched & Deserted
Coracle Ballybeg, Grange, Clonmel Tipperary, Ireland www.coracle. ie
including a poem by Cralan Kelder, tucked into this field notebook of junkyard sketches by Jason Clark, uniquely possessed and perfectly chosen by a press that has a knack for locating such beauties. Full blossom art.
for sale at Longhouse, please inquire
POETRYJohn Martone 1031 10th Street Charleston, IL. 61920
just two examples of recent handmade and often hand-written foldup clutches of new poems from the gardener of Illinois.
AN UNFORGETTABLE
M.F. K. Fisher, A Cordiall Water
North Point Press
a gem stone to slip into the back pocket the way books used to be respected — from the chef of all living is meant to embrace in wholesome chapters, recipies and endurable musings. A favorite re-reader.
POETRY / DISC / PDF FORMAT
Edward Sanders, America, a history in Verse
Blake Route Press PO Box 729 Woodstock, N.Y. 12498 www.Americanhistoryinverse.com
brand new and loaded for bear — covering the last century by a participant, survivor, and one tackling the next century without losing a step. Here are the five volumes from Black Sparrow, over 2000 pages in length, covering 1900-2000 for your computer viewing silver screen.
for sale at Longhouse, please inquire
POETRYSimon Pettet, Hearth
Talisman House PO Box 3157 Jersey City, NJ. 07303-3157
gorgeous no-holds-bar poetry defying a school, a place, or the usual quibbles of poetry wars & complaints — Simon comes to play. A new & selected poems attempting to span quite a lifetime. Enjoy yourselves.
MUSIC / CDRamblin' Jack Elliott, I Stand Alone
Anti, 2006
in the tradition of picking up the guitar and nicely finger-pickin' a tune, Elliott remains the best of the talkin' blues cowboy masters. There's as much Lenny Bruce as Woody Guthrie and they're both long gone — in body, but not spirit — and Ramblin' Jack Elliott isn't.
POETRYPatricia Smith, Blood Dazzler
Coffee House Press 27 North Fourth Street Suite 400 Minneapolis, MN. 55401 www.coffeehousepress.org
in a bookstore go to page 8 and read "Only Everything I Own" and decide then and there to buy this book — between Spike Lee's film "When the Levees Broke" and "Blood Dazzler" you hold the scoop on Katrina, who owns you (and they do), and what's to be done.
POETRYLisa Jarnot, Night Scenes
Flood Editions www.floodeditions.com
restraint right where you wish it, letting-go where most don't/can't, a poetry that rides the range of rhyme, no rhyme, song-fest, sudden hollow. Why not be fascinated.
FARM LIFE / ARCHITECTUREThomas Durant Visser, Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
University Press of New England One Court St. Lebanon, NH 03766 www.upne.com
an excellent survey in crisp black & white photographs of exterior and interior magnificence and small pegged details from grand hay barn to corn crib to cranberry bog shanty to outhouse. No stone left unturned, no cows in the way, and the author's name is strong lined old vintage New England.
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