AGNES VARDA ~

 

R E A D   M E

     A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering

 career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.

Norton 2024

DUBRAVKA UGRESIC ~

 

R E A D   M E

&

M O R E

A Muzzle for Witches

University of Rochester

2024

CATHY MERRICK ~

Cathy Merrick, Advocate for Indigenous People in Canada,

 Dies at 63

Ms. Merrick during a candlelight vigil outside a Winnipeg courthouse in April during the trial of a white man accused of killing four Indigenous women. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to her after she collapsed while speaking to reporters on Sept. 6. Credit...Sebastien St-Jean/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

C A T H Y   M E R R I C K 

CLIFFORD BURKE ~

 

     Desert Rose Press

     2024

JELLY ROLL BLUES ~

 

R E A D   M E

Censored Songs & Hidden Histories

THE BOOK AT WAR ~

 

R E A D   M E

Basic Books 2023

SUPREME CIDER DONUT ~

 

This is a supreme cider donut

melt in your mouth donut

the clincher of a September day

after picking blueberries at

Green Mountain Orchards in

Putney, Vermont ~

No promo — they don't

know us and we don't

know them — even if

we have been scrambling

their bountiful hillsides

 picking there for decades,

the best cider donut

we have ever had —

thank you!

    ______________________

NATIVE NATIONS ~

 

R E A D   M E

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF "THE DEBATE"

 

      Backroad Chalkie

     September 2024

KEITH JARRETT ~

 

1977

featuring his 'American Quartet' ensemble which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Paul Motian. 

 …

TRANSCENDENT ~

 

H E A R   M E

   Melville House 2023

PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND (1967) ~

 

   Elektra Records

  1967  

KUBRICK ~

 

R E A D   M E

Stanley Kubrick on the set of the film Barry Lyndon (1975)

IS THERE GOD AFTER PRINCE? ~

 

R E A D   M E

The University of Chicago Press

2023

WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM ~

 

R E A D    M E

      Saqi Books, 2023

CLIFFORD GIBSON~

 

RUSS TAMBLYN ~

 

R E A D   M E

Black Stone 2024

ANTHONY HECHT ~

 

R E A D   M E

I'll read a ton of poets before I sit down again with Anthony Hecht's poems,

but I have read him, and this biography performs a miracle raising the ante

on a somewhat dragged through the dust poet. Give me Stevens, of course,

and all by Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop

before Hecht, but read this biography — Hecht's literal writing 

and continuing and finally surviving is his poem.

    St. Martin's 2023

JOE HILL LOUIS ~

 

THE FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF THE NORTHERN SAMI ~

 

R E A D   M E

Minnesota 2024

RAJA SHEHADEH ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Other Press, 2024