LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS ~

 

R E A D   M E

      The Idol's Kiss, 20th Century by Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas

   Phaidon 2024

GERALD MURNANE'S BARLEY PATCH ~

 

R E A D   M E

       And Other Stories, 2025

ARCHIVE: HOWARD ZINN / THE BOMB ~

 

R E A D   M E

    City Lights Books,

    2010

KONG NAY, CAMBODIA ~

 

K O N G    N A Y 

Kong Nay teaching the chapei dang veng, a long-necked lute, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2003.Credit...

                                                                               Andy Eames/Associated Press

TONI AT RANDOM ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Amistad 2025

BOB ARNOLD'S MUSEUM ~

 

       Purchase MUSEUM

~ Update ~

BTW, Birthday wishes for Bob with all love, Sweetheart!

Stone work by Bob Arnold, Summer Flowers 2025

JOHN LEE HOOKER TONIGHT ~

 

1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.

IS A RIVER ALIVE? ~

 

R E A D   M E

Norton 2025

THE CRACKING OF THE GLEN CANYON DAM ~

 

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in the short, poetic film on Earth First’s legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of 1981. The film contains one of the only interviews ever given by the late, great, Monkey Wrench Gang author Edward Abbey along with his classic speech from the back of a pick-up truck. Produced by Christopher (Toby) McLeod, Glen Switkes and Randy Hayes.

BOOK ANGELS: PETER HOWARD ~

 

      Serendipity Books

YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH ~

 

from Photo Studies

AUGUST STUDY

august the heat of a scorching pot

roofs and portals yellow flashing

a book carelessly flipped through

suddenly dazzlingly blooming like heat

august is a river unspeakably mellow

the old secession buildings flow

a clean thin membrane of light

covers the noon processions of trees

august my relentless idyll

the oily state of warm wax

a street violin sonata sunday

sharp as a sting

                           anxious

                                           dense

____________________

YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH

Set Change

translated John Hennessy & Ostap Kin

New York Review of Books, 2024

HOW TO ~

 

   No One Is Defying Trump          Like Brazil’s President

R E A D   M E

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA ~ "Small Holdings" ~

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Small Holdings

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Longhouse, 2025

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THE LIFE OF ROBERT FROST AND HIS POEMS (THE LATEST VERSION) ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Farrar, Straus, Giroux

    2025

FATS DOMINO LIVE TONIGHT ~

 

RUTH KRAUSS ~

 

H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y,   S W E E T H E A R T

Ruth Krauss

Maurice Sendak

DICTEE ~

 

R E A D   M E

Tanam Press

First Third Woman Press

University of California Press

1982, 1995, 2001, 2009, 2022

MICHAEL OCHS ~

 

Michael Ochs, right, with his brother Phil, the protest singer, in 1968 in Mill Valley, Calif. For a time, Michael served as Phil’s manager. Credit...Alice Ochs/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images

M I C H A E L   O C H S

Top Collector of Rock ’n’ Roll Photos, Dies at 82

CLIFF CARLISLE TONIGHT ~

 

DAVID GIANNINI ~

              

Something Else

Losing a good-luck charm does not mean losing

good luck or that bad luck will occur more

frequently. That is why Husband looked into

the pickle jar, with its lone occupant.  Husband

thought that if he could remove the lid, after

years of having the jar tightly sealed away

in the dark, good luck might befall him in a

charming, if not charmed, way.

"My view is kind of difficult to explain," said

Husband to Wife.

"It's a belief, that's why," said Wife.  Good luck

with it.

Husband and Wife stood in the root cellar as

Husband held the pickle-in-its-jar to the dim

light of a 20-watt bulb.

"I believe the pickle is still in there, dear," said

Husband.

"Yes, I believe he's there, too," said Wife,

"though the jar is so cloudy."

"Let's call him Something Else," said Husband.

"That won't change the fact that he's still our

pickle in the clouds," said Wife.

"No, I suppose not," said Husband, and he

placed the boy-in-the-brine back on the shelf,

and turned out the light.

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David Giannini

Porous Borders

Spuyten Duyvil, 2017

JETHRO TULL TONIGHT ~

 

     Reprise 1969

THE WISDOM OF SHEEP ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Penguin 2024

ATLAS OBSCURA ~

 

SACAGAWEA, AMERICAN HISTORY ~

R E A D

or

    L I S T E N 

Christoper Cox, NYT

James Patrick Conin

WILLIE NELSON TONIGHT ~

 

OFF THE TRACKS ~

 

R E A D   M E

ECW Press, 2024