CARNIVAL OF SOULS ~

 

WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE ~

 

SUPERNATURAL AMERICA ~

 

R E A D     M E

University of Chicago Press

2021

THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE ~

 

Flatiron 2015

JULIE FELIX ~

 

JERRY LEE LEWIS (1983) ~

 

FROM MONTANA: BOB LOVE POEMS ~

Bob Love

Kinnikinnick

Longhouse 

2021

A fine sheaf of poems from a

Montana logger

many-colored

& limited

$10

postpaid

We accept Paypal

Please use our email address of 

longhousepoetry@gmail.com

Payable by check ~

Longhouse 

PO Box 2454

West Brattleboro, Vermont 05303

THE GREAT MORT SAHL ~

 

M O R T      S A H L

GUIDO MORSELLI ~

 

R E A D     M E

New York Review of Books

2020

JOHN BRADLEY KNOWS VALLEJO ~

 

Hotel Montparnasse

Written in soap on the mirror in Vallejo's room:

Paul Celan does not like to be touched.

Remedios Varo does not like talking turnips.

Frida Kahlo will not eat uncooked termites.

Robert Desnos does not like to wear a tether.

Lenora Carrington does not like to be tickled.

Jerzy Kosinski does not like to cut his toenails.

Kiki will not go near a jar of pickled tonsils.

Frederico Garcia Lorca is allergic to pasta a' la Franco.

Charlotte Corday does not like a wet wig.

Apollinaire does not like to ride in a blimp.

Mayakovsky does not like to be truncated.

Julio Cortazar does not like a wet matchstick.

Gertrude Stein does not like to be called Twinkle Toes.

Joyce Mansour cannot tolerate the sound of a tuning fork.

Pablo Picasso will not dine near Charles Baudelaire.

Cesar Vallejo does not like giving birth to Cesar Vallejo.

[ Unsigned ]

_________________________

John Bradley

Hotel Montparnasse

Letters to Cesar Vallejo

Dos Madres, 2021

This glorious book of poems (portraits)

is an ideal finished film script for

Wes Anderson to now take over

THE SORRENTINOS ~

 

Christopher Sorrentino’s parents, Gilbert and Vicki, circa 1972. Sorrentino examines their confounding marriage in his memoir, ‘Now Beacon, Now Sea.’Credit...via Christopher Sorrentino

R E A D     M E

(an excellent review

of this son's memoir)

Catapult, 2021

BLANCA VARELA ~

 

Railing

which is the light

which the shadow

Game

within my grasp

the angel burned

Then

beyond the rose

shadow

Night

old craftswoman

see what you've made by lying

another day

Justice

along came the bird

and devoured the worm

along came the man

and devoured the bird

along came the worm

and devoured the man

Eve Leaves

animal of salt

if you turn that head

on your body

you will become

              and you will have a name

and the word

slithering

will be your footprint

Curriculum Vitae

let's say that you won the race

and that the prize

was another race

that you didn't drink champagne

but your own sweat

that you didn't hear cheering

but dogs barking

and that your own shadow

was your sole

and disloyal competitor

____________________

Blanca Varela (1926-2009)

Rough Song

translated by Carlos Lara

The Song Cave, 2020

TONGO EISEN-MARTIN & SONIA SANCHEZ ~

 

Blood on the Fog, Tongo Eisen-Martin

City Lights Books, 2021

Collected Poems, Sonia Sanchez

Beacon Press, 2021

SAMUEL R. DELANY ~

 

R E A D       M E

Yale University

NEW ANNE WALDMAN FROM LONGHOUSE ~

By Anne Waldman 

                                      Antonin Artaud & Ear Collage ~  

                               Diana Lizette Rodriguez  (artist)

Two new titles by Anne Waldman

and Anne with Diana Rodriguez

Foldout booklet long poem by Anne Waldman

&

Broadside poem by Anne with Diana's

artwork on the reverse, quite suitable for framing.

All signed by both artists & bound in

wrap-around band

$25 postpaid

Longhouse 

2021

We accept Paypal

Please use our email address of 

longhousepoetry@gmail.com

Payable by check ~

Longhouse 

PO Box 2454

West Brattleboro, Vermont 05303

RY COODER ~

 

DOROTHY DAY ~

 

Dorothy Day's final arrest,

protesting with striking farm

workers in California, 1973

Photo by  Bob Fitch

R E A D     M E

CLARICE LISPECTOR ~

 

R E A D      M E

JENNY DISKI ~

 

J E N N Y     D I S K I

JONI MITCHELL ~

 

KAY RYAN ~

 

R E A D      M E

a lovely sized book for the hand —

sincere and quite relaxed essays

all accomplished with the right touch —

Marianne Moore, Stevie Smith,

Philip Larkin and Gerard Manley Hopkins

are her preferred dishes,

and William Bronk was a surprise

THOMAS BERNHARD ~

 

R E A D     M E

JIM TOLPIN, BUILDER ~

 R E A D      M E 

SOME RONALD BAATZ "WOODEN NOODLES" ~

   

from WOODEN NOODLES

                   __________________________

In spring

birds teaching leaves

how to sing

leaves teaching birds

how to whisper

Milky Way

a blissful spray of light -

we did cross this river

I remember that

little bridge

Usually

I sin in the house

and pray in the garden.

although on some nights

it happens the other way around

I make paper airplanes

out of love poems which

from so much practice

I am able to land

at her feet

Lightning

hitting a dead apple tree -

in childhood I thought nothing

of eating a

stick of butter

The house I lived in as a boy

good and bad angels

hanging in the closet

like bats the size

of overcoats

The rat I saw

down by the river

the rat that saw me

in dusty evening light

carrying a bag of cookies

Not so uncommon

a moth dying in its sleep

outside a diner

serving breakfast

at any hour of the day

Found in a pocket

of a jacket

in the closet

a desert night

from long ago

Do the ghosts

of childhood dogs

refusing to get out of my bed

have anything to do

with insomnia

A cheap clock wakes me

then a breeze from

a nearby burning field

lulls me back

to sleep

Throw my ashes

in the pond at Mt T

I have seen glints of heaven

in the eyes

of frogs

___________________

Ronald Baatz

Wooden Noodles

Black Fig Press

 2021

RUSSELL LEE ~

 

R E A D     M E

Norton 2021

SIBERIAN HOUSE FROM BIRCH BARK AND FISH! ~

 

Gordon Clarke