WOODSHED 5 ~

( whispered to me as I passed

thru the woodshed into the tool room

bob)

RUTGER HAUER ~

R U T G E R      H A U E R

1944 ~ 2019, Netherlands

At the Sundance film festival in 2013

Photograph: Victoria Will/Invision/AP

GERTRUDE BENHAM (CLIMBER) ~

G E R T R U D E     B E N H A M

WOODSHED 4 ~

( in the woodshed )

bob

WOODSHED 3 ~

( passing through the woodshed )

bob

WOODSHED 2 ~

( on the woodshed wall )

bob

FAREWELL, PAUL KRASSNER ~

P A U L     K R A S S N E R

1932 ~ 2019

WOODSHED 1 ~

I'm posting a week of photographs taken in early spring 2019

as I pass through our woodshed and into my tool room to

fetch hammer, draw knife, axe, saws, level etc.,

since there is another woods cottage to build

and I'll build it over the 

spring, summer, fall

on stone

in fact very close to the stone hut

I built in 1985 —

I just may have more to say as I build over those months

but for now when I walk through the big woodshed

and into my tool room

these are photographs and drawings

showing up on the walls after the wood has been burned.

photograph by bob arnold

april late 2019

ARCHIVE — BRIAN DILLON ~

Penguin

Ireland

2005

R E A D       M E

THIS SPORTING LIFE ~

AMERICAN PRIMITIVE ~

ZORA AND LANGSTON ~

L I S T E N

"I'M THE ONE " (Annette Peacock) ~

BRAZENHEAD BOOKS ~

THE NEW YORKER PRESENTS: BRAZENHEAD C'EST MOI from wonderful6,inc. on Vimeo.

M I C H A E L   S E I D E N B E R G

STEVE CANNON ~

S T E V E       C A N N O N

1935 ~ 2019




Creditphoto ~Michael Nagle for The New York Times

BOMBINO ~

BOB ARNOLD "DOE" (ARCHIVE) ~

Donald Hall was the Poetry Editor at Country Journal.

He accepted poems of mine over some years and over the

next few weeks I'll show the magazine and the poems.

My book Yokel will be shown in its entirety starting in

September.

OKLAHOMA HILLS ~

ARLO & JACK ~

EAST TEXAS RED ~

OUR LAND ~

Here is one of the finest paragraphs in the book:
“Berlin and Guthrie shared a midcentury balance of confidence without machismo, a stoicism born of deprivation, a toughness born of struggle, a steadiness that neither sought nor feared difficulty, tempered with a hope and optimism born of having survived hard times. Our patriotic songwriters who have followed them haven’t had that mix.”



R E A D      M E

Public Affairs

2013

LITTLE LABORS ~

L I T T L E     L A B O R S

PYOTR PAVLENSKY ~

“Lighting,” 2017, Paris.

CreditCapucine Henry/Associated Press

PYOTR   PAVLENSKY

“The government’s aim is to suppress or neutralize art, to reduce me to a vandal, a madman, a provocateur,” he told me earlier, “but the criminal case becomes one of the layers of the artwork, the portal through which you enter and see the mechanisms of power exposed.”

 — PAVLENSKY

TELEX ~

GREATEST HITS ~

THE CIVIL WAR (MATMOS) ~

READ ME ~

In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine

DUY DOAN ~

Rickshaw Boy






The man I pulled tonight

carried a load of books.



When I felt him watching

me uphill, I grimaced.



He gave me lunar

cakes the size



of two camel humps.

When I answered him,



I smiled to his face.

He wore the moonlight



in his specs. Pant

seams clean as the embroidery



work of his book covers.

One cannot grow rich



without a bit of cleverness.

Should I have shown



him the secret of my deft

touch? The Circling Moon,



the Graceful Swan? How East

Wind beats West Wind



if other two winds say so?

Snow falls on cedars.






____________________


Duy Doan
We Play A Game
Yale, 2018

EARTHLY SIGNS ~

[ On a second reading

and finding the cloth edition from Yale

I find this an even more powerful reading from Tsvetaeva

as well as a lively translation and revealing

portrait of the Russian poet by Jamey Gambrell ]