THELONIOUS ~

TOO LATE ~

JOHN COLTRANE ~

SUZANNE CIANI ~

AND NOW A WORD FROM JIM DODGE ~

H O W ' S     Y O U R     D A Y     G O I N G ?

For many years, well, decades, Jerry Reddan and I have traded publications from our presses —

it's what you do in the small press world if you want to amount to anything.

It's actually what you did before you even had a press.

You shared.

So staying with tradition, as Jerry shares with me a fine letterpress

piece, by his annual favorite Jim Dodge, I can't resist

but to share Jim's poem with you.

We count ourselves lucky.

Tangram
Berkeley | CA.

ORNETTE COLEMAN ~

DIRTY OLD TOWN ~

WHEN I'M GONE ~

DON ELLIS ~

another show I was at, Tanglewood 1968

I just finished reading Philip Roth's "Goodbye Columbus" and went to

this show with my sister

Judy Collins also on the bill

and if I'm not mistaken

MJQ closed the evening

Ellis was lit!

SLIPPIN' AND SLIDIN' UP THE GOLDEN STREET ~

TYRUS ~

TYRUS WONG  

'BAMBI' ARTIST THWARTED BY RACIAL BIAS,

DIES AT 106

TY R U S     W O N G     H A S     P A S S E D     A W A Y

~

T Y R U S

WOMEN CRIME WRITERS ~

The Library of America

____________________________

EIGHT masterpieces in the genre

and many brought to film noir

Don't Delay

WOMEN CRIME WRITERS

T H E      P A R I S      R E V I E W

The original book covers

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"FLY" ~

MILES DAVIS ~

DOROTHY B. HUGHES ~

That's Humphrey Bogart & Gloria Grahame

from the stylish film noir (1950) of the same title

directed by Nicholas Ray.

Dorothy Hughes, a Yale Younger Series poet (1931)

wrote a masterpiece (1947) right up there with Raymond Chandler

if you're looking for a unbeatable read in the crime genre.

ROSANNE CASH ~ TELL HEAVEN ~

ALBERT AYLER ~

THE KID ~

F A C T S     A B O U T      B I L L Y      T H E     K I D



BILLY THE KID
PUBLISHED FROM
LONGHOUSE ~

LAND OF GOLD ~

THOMAS BERNHARD ~

B L A S T     B O O K S    2016

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Over the course of three days, June 5, 6, and 7 in

1970, simply sitting on a white bench in Hamburg

park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful

monologue for Three Days (Drei Tage), filmmaker

Ferry Radax's commanding film portrait of the great

Austrian writer. Radar interwove the monologue

with a variety of metaphorically resonant visual

techniques — blacking out the screen to total

darkness, suggesting the closing of the observing

eye; cuts to scenes of cameramen, lighting and

recording equipment; extreme camera distance and

extreme close-up. Bernhard had not yet written his

autobiographical work Gathering Evidence, published

originally in five separate volumes between 1975

and 1982, and his childhood remembrances were a

revelation. This publication of Bernhard's monologue

and stills from Radax's artful film allows this unique

portrait of Bernhard to be savored in book form.

KOLLER & CORMAN ~

TWO OLD FRIENDS OF LONGHOUSE

READING

CALL IT HOLIDAY GIFT FROM

BERTIE KOLLER

& 

JOHN LEVY

J A M E S      K O L L E R      R E A D I N G

A variety of links —

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THE KEEPER ~

"The Keeper is an unusual exhibition in

 that it multiplies the function of the

 museum by presenting, within one show, an

 array of imaginary museums and personal

 collections — what one might consider to be

 museums of the individual."

N E W   M U S E U M

LONG TIME TOGETHER ~

Bob on Sugarloaf
winter 2016
photo by Susan Arnold

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Long Time Together

4 dollars I paid

For this dark scarf

Of large red roses,

And love’s fortune

Is that I had you

There with me, out

On the sidewalk to

Fold it, and wear

Around your neck

From His Hand

From his hand

Awakening us

In bed, two small

Carrots brought

Out of the garden

Barely washed he

Wants us to bite

Down into what he

Terms a surprise

And we gamely do —

Watching his smile

At this given sweet —

Knowing five years ago

He was our surprise

Small Difference

We bought

a jackknife

for our son,

his first

I thought the

blade was sharp,

you liked the

pretty handle

Like Poem

He stands to mimic —

Young boy in

T-shirt & jeans

Arms out like

Balancing a high

Wire tipsy

& immediate

Joy

When we ask

To see it

Again it’s

Not even close

Two Spoons

It’s Valentine’s Day —

We are 22 years married

And share strawberry shortcake

At midday, the waitress saw

To bring two spoons

Our son comes home from

Fifth grade, says Kevin

Gave Angela a $30 bracelet

And she didn’t want it — all he can

Remember is most of the class cried all day

Break Away

Break away from the world

Even a loving child, friends

That travel long distances

To be with us; cross the

Shallow river to a bank of

Ferns, undress while wild

Chatter of the kingfisher

Hunts the long summer water

And years between us since

We’ve done this — naked but

For your necklace — under

Trees, evening in the leaves,

My arms circled around you

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Bob Arnold

Once In Vermont

Gnomon