Silent in the woods where snow is falling
Silent in their hoods where snow is falling
Snow-things
Tree-brown
And lovely snow
White and falling
Under the needled wing snow is falling
Fluffy white oh fluffy flight
In and out the wind night
Came snow and they
And the trees and the rocks
And the houses and the lights
Came snow and they
Through the woods
And light
And through the woods
And red children faces
And winter apples
And light and night.
and snow
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Ceremonies in Bachelor Space
Russell Edson
Tough Poets Press
Who in the hell is Tough Poets Press?
Who knows. I saw a listing for the book
and liked that it was Edson, one of his books
I didn't know, hadn't read, and the title and the
book design had Edson written all over it, and now
I see it was Edson's first book, published by
Black Mountain College, of all places, in 1951.
For some reason, and again holding to the Edson
aura, the contents of the book are in public domain
due to non-renewal of its original copyright, and so
the sharp-eyes in Arlington, Massachusetts at Tough
Poets Press, with the help of many (they list all the names)
on 49 Churchill Avenue, came through and published this book.
I'm very glad they did. I have a sneaky feeling Tough Poets is
onto a very good thing, re-issuing the likes of Kirby Doyle, Gil
Orlovitz, Gregory Corso, Marvin Cohen, Johnny Stanton,
Donald Newlove — what could go wrong! — Seymour Krim,
Dan Propper and Jack Micheline should be in the wings.
It seems the Edson is print-on-demand, so come one and
come all. NOTHING by Edson should be passed up.
I saw him read once in a cellar environment with
cellar people as his audience and it was beloved.
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