Sunday, November 9, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
MY SWEETEST FRIEND ~
Honor
let me tell you one thing about suicide
if a loved one has the guts or the heartbreak
to pull this off, you better have the same to
say this is how it all ended
even if you argue with her or him in your mind
every day as you bake bread
rake leaves
drive to work
return library books
tie your shoes
walk a cross walk
mail a letter
split wood
and try to sing in the shower again
__________________
My Sweetest Friend by Bob Arnold
Longhouse 2014
72 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 6.25 inches
$15
order here through Paypal, plus $2.00 s/h (US shipping only)
"It's so beautiful and for the first time in my life I truly feel the umbilical chord double helix of life and death inseparable."
Donna Fleischer
Sherry, May 9, 2016
Friday, November 7, 2014
" 27 " ~
Forever 27 Club
Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse
'Now he's gone and joined that stupid club. I told him not to join that stupid club.'
Wendy O' Connor
Kurt Cobain's mother *
________________________
"Not a castaway or a waif, not a raftsman or a whale fisherman, Thoreau (1817-1862)
was a Harvard graduate, the son of a mildly successful pencil manufacturer
in Concord, Massachusetts, who, after floundering a bit, at the age of
twenty-seven"
27
"built himself a ten-by-fifteen foot cabin of pine logs and
"built himself a ten-by-fifteen foot cabin of pine logs and
secondhand boards beside Walden Pond and lived there alone
for twenty-six months, raising much of his own food.
This was not then a cliche, though twentieth-century back-to-the-landers
have sometimes threatened to make it so.
Like George Orwell, the great English essayist, a hundred years later—
an Eton boy who chose an urban form of self-denial while
"down and out in Paris and London"— Thoreau was seeking
special insight from a stripped-down existence. Both men were radicals,
but Thoreau was after rapture, not social realism. Both were essayists
but Thoreau in his rash and roosterly optimism is quintessentially
American."
EDWARD HOAGLAND About H.D. Thoreau (1991)
* 27,
A history of the 27 club
by Howard Sounes
Da Capo, 2014
A history of the 27 club
by Howard Sounes
Da Capo, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
THE BARK CANOE ~
The Bark Canoe and Skin Boats of North America
Smithsonian Institute, 1964
Once In Vermont Films
2014 © bob arnold
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
REMEMBERING A NATURAL WANDERER ~
L. M. Kit Carson, in 1991, was a script doctor and an advice-giver for young filmmakers
Credit
The Dallas Morning News
L. M. KIT CARSON
1941 ~ 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
APPLE OF OUR EYE ~
Emily Dickinson's gravesite
w/ family members
Amherst, MA.
20 October 2014
photo 2014 © bob arnold
Thursday, October 30, 2014
THE POSTHUMAN ~
Andrei Codrescu
photo Henke Olofsson
photo Henke Olofsson
"Hippies were often misconstrued as being
antimaterialistic and Zen inclined, a misconception
aided by poets Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Diane
di Prima, and Philip Whalen, who were Zen
trained. In fact, the baroque imagination of LSD
led most young counterculturists away from
emptiness and toward fulsome teeming matters like
instant communication, better bodies, cosmetics,
immortality, and youth potions, all of which
translated two decades later into the internet and
biotech."
ANDREI CODRESCU THE POSTHUMAN DADA GUIDE
Princeton 2009
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
GALWAY KINNELL ~
Galway Kinnell
1927 ~ 2014
"Through it all, he held that it was the job of poets to bear witness.
“To me,” he said, “poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and
saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or
her to be on earth at this moment.”
The New York Times, 29 October 2014
BRIAN JONES ~
Brian Jones
The Making of the Rolling Stones
Paul Trynka
Viking 2014
If you've read Keith Richards Life
— now read a biography of the founder of The Rolling Stones
it promises not to jive
it promises not to jive
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
CID CORMAN'S OF ( A PEEK ) ~
THE
CONTAGION
God is a symptom -
like philosophy.
We're sick to death of
each other and our
selves - contaminate
everything we
can get our minds on.
_____________________
Cid Corman
All last winter and into this winter approaching we have been working on editing, typing and designing the new issue from Longhouse of Cid Corman's final two volumes of.
Expect it to reside in one big book.
It will be out for release in 2015.
This is a massive undertaking since Cid left the manuscript in ten loose leaf notebooks, all typed, with revisions on the original transcript to be deciphered
(decades of receiving letters from him, no problem).
We're gaining and we thought we'd offer a peek with the poem above.
The poem is from Book 5, part III, under the heading "Transmutings."
The poem is from Book 5, part III, under the heading "Transmutings."
Considering the world at present, one can see Cid was twenty to thirty years ahead of himself.
[ BA ]
"Cid" drawing © bob arnold
Quiet Accomplishment
Remembering Cid Corman
by Gregory Dunne
Ekstasis Editions/Victoria, B.C.
In the meantime, here is Gregory Dunne's modest, well-built memoir of Cid Corman; concerning itself mainly with Cid's many decades in Japan, while threading throughout a fine juxtaposition of the poet and the poet's writings. Dunne also offers his sharp eye to the full opus of — quite valuable — as well as his interview with Cid Corman first published in American Poetry Review.
Monday, October 27, 2014
SMARTIES ~
YOUR SMART PHONE MESSAGE
you know
the social
order is
fucked
when the
assassin
ignores
his enemies
and instead
shoots
his
friends
you know
the social
order is
fucked
when the
assassin
ignores
his enemies
and instead
shoots
his
friends
no matter where my eye goes now — town & country —
everyone but me & the crazy guy
owns a smart phone
has their ears plugged with buds, wears head phones
is tuned IN while OUTdoors.
They see and feel but don’t hear the breezes
all parts of the day, their messages are constant
and when not there — expectant!
Life on the edge.
B O B A R N O L D
RAY JOHNSON ~
R A Y J O H N S O N
not nothing
Edited by Elizabeth Zuba
essay by Kevin Killian
SIGLIO 2014
www.sigliopress.com
Ray Johnson has forever been my favorite modern artist (USA) — a mixture of so many — Duchamp, de Kooning, Picasso, Cornell, Cage, Brainard, Warhol, Bruce Conner, and somebody I'm missing. It's good to miss somebody, keep a space open.
"Dear Andy,
I telephoned John Cage and t old him
that you wanted me to interview him for Inter
view and he laughed and laughed and said "That's
the funniest thing I've ever heard."
I said "Maybe we could not talk to each other
for a half hour?"
Ray"
____________
Sunday, October 26, 2014
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