THE VILLAGE VOICE ~

 

R E A D    M E

    PublicAffairs 2024

Walter Murch (CINEMA) ~

 

Jul 25, 2024

Walter Murch, the Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer, talks about his work on The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola's Coppola’s thriller about our surveillance society. The Palme d’Or-winning film, 50 this year, is a film that continues to grow in relevance and stature. Gene Hackman has rarely been better than he is in this conspiracy thriller, playing surveillance expert Harry Caul. A solitary, intensely private individual, Harry strives for an ethical approach to his work, even as he struggles with pangs of guilt for his past mistakes. His obsession with latest job – he believes he may have discovered a murder plot – makes him increasingly paranoid. Coppola wrings every last drop of tension from his lean screenplay while an impressive supporting cast and David Shire’s celebrated score contribute to a sense of unease. Released at the height of the Watergate Scandal in the US, the film now feels prophetic in its portrait of an all-pervasive surveillance culture.

Summer Colors

 Summer Colors

~ a hummingbird visits ~buildings, stone & firewood built by Bob ~ flowers by Bob & Susan

Green River, July 2024

all photos by sea

EDNA O' BRIEN ~

 

E D N A   O' B R I E N

b. 1930, Tuamgraney, a rural hamlet in County Clare, Ireland

THE CHANTELS ~

 

NATASHA TRETHEWEY ~

 

R E A D   M E

The 2022 Windham Campbell Lecture

Yale 2024

JIM GORDON, DRUMMER ~

 

RE A D   M E

Diversion Books, 2024

BYTHER SMITH ~

 

THE DISTORTED HISTORY OF THE CASSETTE TAPE ~

 

R E A D   M E

The University of

North Carolina Press

2023

JOHN MAYALL GOODBYE ~

 

J O H N   M A Y A L L

born in Macclesfield, England, just outside Manchester, on Nov. 29, 1933 ~ (2024)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvU5X5NTcM4

REPEAT (HENRY NILSSON) ~

 

JOAN ACOCELLA ~

 

R E A D    M E

Acocella was lost to us early in 2024 —

read this collection of diverse portraits,

essays, mind-sweeps, whatever you wish to call them —

even one on Gianni Rodari — and

know what we have lost.

Farrar Straus Giroux

2024

HELEN HUMPHREYS ADDRESSES THOREAU ~

 

R E A D   M E

Farrar Straus Giroux

2024

EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA ~STORIES FROM THE ARCTIC ~

 

R E A D    M E

   Thames & Hudson

2023

FRANTZ FANON ~

 

T H E   R E B E L ' S   C L I N I C

Adam Shatz

Farrar, 2024

HAPPY TRAUM ~

 

H A P P Y   T R A U M

b. Bronx, NY 1938 ~ 2024

Happy Traum, left, in performance with his younger brother, Artie, at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village in 1970. The brothers performed at the Newport Folk Festival, toured the world and released five albums.Credit...

Sherry Rayn Barnett/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images

EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDENING LIFE ~

 

R E A D   M E   &   L I S T E N

  Timber Press, 2019

THE MIND OF A BEE ~

 

THE   MIND   OF   A   BEE

      Princeton, 2022

NEW AT LONGHOUSE: ALEC FINLAY ~

 

New poems and photographs of the poet

on his footwork travels

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$10 postpaid in the USA

Overseas please add $5

We accept Paypal

Please use our email address of 

longhousepoetry@gmail.com

Payable by check ~

Longhouse 

PO Box 2454

West Brattleboro, Vermont 05303

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NEGATIVES (MUSIC) ~

 

"Emo is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and post-hardcore from the mid-1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore. "

    Chronicle Books

  2023

T H E   B E S T   T H I N G   T O   R E A D   R I G H T   N O W

CHOPPING WOOD ~

 

R E A D   M E

  Jawbone Press

  2024

SECRET SACRED SITES ~

 

R E A D / S E E

Jonglez 2023

LUCILLE CLIFTON ~

 

won’t you celebrate with me

what i have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model.

born in babylon

both nonwhite and woman

what did i see to be except myself?

i made it up

here on this bridge between

starshine and clay,

my one hand holding tight

my other hand; come celebrate

with me that everyday

something has tried to kill me

and has failed.

_________________

Lucille Clifton

The Book of Light

Copper Canyon Press, 2023

MARIE-CLAIRE BANCQUART ~

 

Scent of linden trees

their pollen in rain.

I inhabit the visible

by that, I will never be deserted

under the trees

stones and beetles    

are enough for my geography

my vertical green

the night under my feet:

ecumenical landscape.

Where on earth, it doesn't matter

it's here, in the moment,

beginning and end.

_________________

Marie-Claire Bancquart

Every Minute Is First

selected late poems

translated from the French by Jody Gladding

Milkweed Editons, 2024

CHARTER WEEKS, PHOTOGRAPHER ~

My  

I began studying photography with Harry Calahan at RISD in the 1960s. I was deeply influenced by the extraordinary images coming out of Viet Nam and the civil rights movement in the south. In 1965 I went to London and studied at the London School of Film Technique and then returned to New York where I worked as commercial photographer shooting for major agencies, magazines and the music industry. I also was a principal in a film company and for two years we were the primary film resource for the BBC shooting both news and documentary projects. A most memorable experience was shooting in Harlem the night after Martin Luther King was killed (utter chaos.) I also did a series of photographs in the south for The National Sharecroppers Fund to use in fund raising.

I returned to New Hampshire in 1971 and worked partly as an art director at a small agency and cutting film for an independent film company in Manchester NH. I built my own house in rural southern New Hampshire and started an Industrial Advertising Agency (Isinglass) since it was not possible to make a living as a full time photographer during that period.

I have been a photographer for 50 years, much of it documentary in nature. I have photographed in Europe, Asia and Africa, been exhibited in galleries around the US and published in a variety of magazines including The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, South Loop Review, Drunken Boat Corvette Fever and other journals.

My archives reside at Keene State College.

There is much important history that has been preserved by photography. Mathew Brady, Louis Hine, Bruce Davidson, and Walker Evans just to mention a few. My motto is “Photography keeps yesterday safe for tomorrow.”o

              Charter was a close friend with Longhouse. He passed away in Asheville, NC 9 July 2024 

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