BILL RUSSELL ~

 

Bill Russell with his coach, Red Auerbach, in December 1964 after scoring his 10,000th career point in a game in Boston Garden. In a 1980 poll of basketball writers, he was voted the greatest player in N.B.A. history.Credit...Associated Press

B I L L      R U S S E L L

1934 ~ 2022

COUNT BASIE & OSCAR PETERSON ~

 

ART PEPPER `

 

"The first five-four tune ever written. I wrote it in

1950, way, way before "Take Five" came on the scene.

Unfortunately I went to the federal penitentiary right after that and

Paul Desmond and what's-his name went on ahead playing in the clubs

and all that, became big names, and I just sunk to the depths of zero."

A R T   P E P P E R

FOR SUSAN ~

 

July 29, 2022

happy birthday!

JAY WRIGHT ~

 

from Thirteen Quintets for Lois

Death arrives as the body's memory,

becomes expression and promissory

note in a generative relation.

Leibniz might point to an aberration,

or scout an asymmetric assumption

for a flowing body, transitory,

an occasion for light's authority.

In Mali, the owner of water finds

a stolen seed and the logic that binds

the mask to its event, depth of matter,

true signature and motive, the flatter

change in direction, all set to shatter

the indivisible and instant lines.

Logic brings no temper to these designs.

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Jay Wright

Thirteen Quintets for Lois

Flood Editions 2021

KENT JOHNSON — AFTER HORACE

 

Three color booklet of new poems

by Kent Johnson

 in fold-out splendor

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with free shipping

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NEWPORT ~ JONI MITCHELL, PAUL SIMON ~

 

VIVIAN MAIER DEVELOPED ~

 

R E A D     M E

Atria Books, 2021

MURDER IN THE AMAZON ~

 

Mr. Pereira and Mr. Phillips as they headed off on their trip.

A M A Z O N      J O U R N E Y

REVEREND GARY DAVIS ~

 

Live in Seattle, WA 1967

MALCOLM NANCE ~

JULES SUPERVIELLE ~

 

Homesick for the Earth

One day we'll say 'The sun ruled then.

Don't you remember how it shone on the twigs,

on the old, as well as the wide-eyed young?

It knew how to make all things vivid

the second it alighted on them.

It could run just like the racehorse.

How can we forget the time we had on earth?

If we dropped a plate it clattered.

We'd look around like connoisseurs,

alert to the slightest nuance of the air,

knew if a friend was coming towards us.

We'd pick daffodils, collect pebbles, shells —

when we couldn't catch the smoke.

Now smoke is all we hold in our hands.'

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Jules Supervielle (1884-1960)

translated by Moniza Alvi

THE LATEST WORLD OF JOE NAPORA ~

 

BullHead Books

509 North Main Street

Piqua, Ohio

45356

LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY ~

 

Eurreal Wilford Montgomery

GARY SNYDER COLLECTED POEMS ~

 

I finished the Snyder COLLECTED POEMS (Library of America, 2022) yesterday (then started Nelly Sachs, the new translations are refreshing, as they have been for Celan and Rimbaud). No doubt Snyder is the central river after Pound — it’s both in his poems, translations and far better than Pound, his psyche. I read every page. Some more than once. I maneuvered the many excellent notes and chronology by constantly referring to them, like a fine relief map. Ran my fingers over.

        DO NOT MISS THE TRIBUTE TO GARY           AT THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA

                                                   T H I S   E V E N I N G

KEITH JARRETT ~

 

CLAES OLDENBURG ~

 

C L A E S     O L D E N B U R G

Stockholm 1929 ~ Manhattan 2022

M O R E !

YOU DON'T KNOW US NEGROES ~

 

R E A D     M E

HOME SERVICE ~

 

With Home Service are several guest musicians — Andy Findon/saxophones, flute & clarinet; Phil Langham/fiddle, accordion and vocals; Eve Matheson/backing vocals; Philip Pickett/ recorders & shawm, etc. Also John Tams and Bill Caddick plus guest vocals from Linda Thompson.  Graeme Taylor plays some sstirring electric guitar solos.

MY MONEY DONE RUN OUT ~

 

Bob Corritore & Friends

RYOKAN ~

Replica of Zen Master Ryokan’s hut – Gogo-an

 

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My hut lies in the middle of a dense forest;

Every year the green ivy grows longer.

No news of the affairs of men,

Only the occasional song of a woodcutter.

The sun shines and I mend my robe;

When the moon comes out I read Buddhist poems.

I have nothing to report, my friends.

If you want to find the meaning, stop chasing after so many things.

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Ryokan (1758-1831)

Tr. John Stevens

BOBBY BYRD ~

 

T H E    G R E A T

B O B B Y     B Y R D

Memphis, April 15, 1942 ~ El Paso, July 11, 2022

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A Poem for my 79th Birthday 

Please

when it’s over 

scatter my ashes 

bones 

whatever 

in the Milky Way. 

Thank you.

Lee & Bobby Byrd, El Paso, Texas

 

ANAKANA SCHOFIELD ~

 

ANAKANA  SCHOFIELD

                                                                                New York Review of Books

2019

REMEMBERING L. Q. JONES ~

 

1927 ~ 2022

L.Q. Jones was born Justice Ellis McQueen in Beaumont, Texas. His first film role was in the 1955 film “Battle Cry,” playing a character named L.Q. Jones which he adopted for his stage name. He mostly appeared in Western films and TV series, becoming a favorite of revisionist Western director Sam Peckinpah. He played bounty hunter T.C in the Peckinpah film “The Wild Bunch,” and appeared in “Ride the High Country,” and “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” among others. On TV, he had guest roles in “Gunsmoke,” “The Big Valley,” and “The Virginian.” He directed, wrote, and produced the independent film “A Boy and his Dog” in 1975, based on a novella by Harlan Ellison.  

ANGELS< DEMONS, AND SAVAGES ~

 

R E A D     M E

Yale, 2013

NAJA MARIE AIDT ~

 

R E A D     M E

Coffee House Books, 2019

THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES ~

 

NATIVE AMERICANS OF NEW ENGLAND ~

 

ROBERT M. PIRSIG ~

 

R E A D      M E

DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA JULY 7, 1956 (NEWPORT) ~

 

Paul Gonsalves

THE BARTENDER ~

 

J O E     T U R K E L

Joe Turkel in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” (1980). Mr. Turkel’s ominously stoic presence shifted the film into a darker register.Credit...Warner Bros.