Friday, June 30, 2023
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
LESLEY HARRISON ~
Kitchen Music
New York, 2017
collage = REALITY
— Joseph Cornell
i.
the morning after
with its "back to life" feeling.
manhattan breakfast:
a restaurant of
silver grey driftwood -
a feeling of water.
ii.
outside the coffee shop
a young bird alighted -
treethrushsong
iii.
a gulf of rain,
and the city sinks an inch.
at Penn Station, the lush tyres of yellow taxis -
umbrellas of Cherbourg
in the subway crush.
iv.
chance encounters:
old back yards,
reflections of the sun through curtains
from the sidewalk, gleaming
the city market,
"Hey Jude" among
bees and melons
a steel bridge, the Hudson
blank between the walls.
a corner bar.
a girl in a window.
v.
Thursday at the arboretum:
cool green
the cafe kitchen window open
and sounds tunnel in
- song sparrows,
butterflies that churr
vi.
downtown evening:
the sky towers of Manhattan
dark green against a stark aqua sky
then home, the sea
a new north blue.
the chill early March breezes
a wild piano music.
nostalgia wiped clear
vii.
this morning
among the tidewrack:
azimuth, whale bone
shoes and twine, a tedium of
cartons, floats
varia, et cetera.
a day owl, almost blue.
viii.
couch dream evening
entre chien et loup,
a high angelic sunset
"the earth with yellow pears
and wild with roses"
ix.
ephemera:
what minute (infinitesimal)
living can be
______________________
Lesley Harrison
Kitchen Music
New Directions, 2023
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Monday, June 26, 2023
Sunday, June 25, 2023
PAUL ICKOVIC ~
When a friend came to tea and impulsively donned a rabbit mask owned by Mr. Ickovic, the photographer quickly grabbed his camera for an “Alice in Wonderland” sendup.Paul Ickovic/Robert Klein Gallery
1944, England ~ 2023, Prague
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Friday, June 23, 2023
YEUGENIA BELOAUSETS: WAR DIARY (UKRAINE) ~
"How can the world put an end to this crime? This is not just a war
but a continuous terrorist attack. And it looks like these crimes that
subjugate and colonize the Ukrainian people are meant not only to
intimidate us, but also to terrify the whole world.
Despair and fear help make this terror possible."
from War Diary
New Directions / ISOLARII
2023
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
THE WASTE LAND ~
Reading a new superb book on Eliot and The Wasteland. I’m about to say on the Birdhouse the book has some of the same robust as The Pound Era. I wasn’t taking the book seriously until I was midway and then it dawned on me that I was the weakling here as a reader, the book is a marvel. I plan to continue where I woke up (midway) and finish the book and then out of respect must begin the book again and travel over everything I missed. I can pick up the thread midway in the book where I woke up since I know too well all the history and story but this is a fresh biography of the great poem, the great time, the great individual youngsters.
[ BA ]
Norton 2022
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Monday, June 19, 2023
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Saturday, June 17, 2023
A Home for Peace: Betsy Corner & Randy Kehler ~
A Home for Peace: Betsy Corner & Randy Kehler
Randy Kehler & Betsy Corner have been standing strong against paying for war for more than 45 years. They were especially notable because their witness for peace led to an attempt by the govt to take their home, something that happens to very few resisters. The peace community, both locally in Colrain, MA, and nationally, gathered in a years-long occupation to protect Randy & Betsy's home. Just recently Randy & Betsy were aided by the WTRPF (War Tax Resistance Penalty Fund) as the IRS still pursued them. Their story is told in the movie An Act of Conscience
Friday, June 16, 2023
DANIEL ELLSBERG ~
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press, surrenders at the U.S. Courthouse in Boston on June 28, 1971, accompanied by his wife at the time, Patricia.
Donal F. Holway/The New York Times
1931~2023
Thursday, June 15, 2023
JONATHAN GREENE ~
Forethoughts ~ Buying A Farm
We thought we knew what we wanted,
put earnest money down the day we first saw
the farm (fools rush in).
We wanted to be on water, and this has three-fifths
of a mile of river frontage. Did not know we'd be here
for five of the six highest floods on record.
We wanted to be secluded. Over a mile back
from a one-lane county road. Road work and
tons of rock that would cost a small fortune.
No access to potable water. Three wells dug but
no good water (sulphur and salt, the culprits)
but a cistern off the barn still works.
No electric. A right-of-way lawsuit
with our neighbors. Lawyers on all sides lying to us.
Turns out they had no clear title to their place.
After forty years we wake to our view
of the river bottom and the surrounding hill,
often socked in with river fog. Can't imagine
seeing anything else every morning.
_________________________
Jonathan Greene
Going Through It
Broadstone Books, 2023
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
ROBERT GOTTLIEB ~
Mr. Gottlieb, right, with Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1974. Mr. Gottlieb joined Mr. Knopf’s publishing house in 1968 as vice president and editor in chief.
Jill Krementz, all rights reserved
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