Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
RE-READING LYLE GLAZIER ~
" You be Harry Glazier's boy, bean't ye?"
Sugaring Off
Easter vacation
he tramps the Gutter Road
from Gramp's to Uncle Maurice's
where the whole family's sugaring
Lynn and Orman and Calvin
trip metal caps off buckets
under spiles
draining the sugar bush
Merle bossing the gathering,
tub slewing, team
straining, bobsled runners
grating on a ledge
Perry shoves another slab
in the firebox
"a gallon to the barrel, boys,
get a move on!"
Maurice tips the dipper, testing
In the kitchen Aunt Pluma
boils down a batch for
fancy sugar cakes:
stars, hearts, scaled fish
Loyce and Thelma spoon snow
from a dishpan into ie pie plates
the thick glaze pulls at the fork
"a little goes a long ways"
_________________________
Lyle Glazier
Prefatory Lyrics
Coffee House Press, 1991
___________________________________
It was the poet and editor Cid Corman
who had the great ear and tenacity to
promote, publish and persevere
so many fine back country poets —
be it Gary Snyder's early book of poems
Riprap, or Lorine Niedecker's entire workbook,
Theodore Enslin's musical memory, and gone into
the bushes forgotten Lyle Glazier's tramps in the sugar bush,
and this is a mere touching of the Corman radiance.
So few could restore that moment of lyrical movement
and visual care as Lyle Glazier works his tablet in
Prefatory Lyrics.
[ BA ]
Saturday, January 30, 2021
STAN BRAKHAGE ~
Another one from my little books bookcase —
ideal and still easy enough to find a copy,
a few bucks used, and neat leathery
feel cloth, brought forth from
Harvey Brown's Frontier Press —
you can almost smell the past!
Stan Brakhage writing as if an
open letter his loves and lumber
about making film.
Reads closely, Brakhage
always gives more than he's asked.
[ BA ]
Friday, January 29, 2021
RE-READING PAUL BOWLES (GERTRUDE STEIN) ~
Did you know Gertrude Stein
pointed Paul Bowles
toward his longtime
hangout of
Tangiers?
Read more!
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
NEW BOOK! ~ HOLY GHOST (BOB ARNOLD) ~
"Very happy evenings to sit by the fire and read through Holy Ghost. You have been at this particular work of poetry, documenting in unswervingly clean verse, the life around you, that you have built with Susan, for so long. A book like this is doubly enjoyable. One for the clarity and ethos of its poems, unlike anyone else’s these days. And like an intimate extended letter from a long time friend. You may be the only poet I can think of who does something I like to do in poems: show that we live among books. How many volumes of poetry do you read in which no matter what items of life show up, it is as though the poet is shy or even ashamed to depict him or herself as a steady, serious reader? You’ve got gift for portraits of people, mostly the locals of course, and in a Niedecker offhand way you manage to get their vernacular speech into a poem, as well as your own."
_________________
Andrew Schelling
~
Bob Arnold
Holy Ghost
Longhouse 2021
_________________________________
Witness
was the one with you—
whether you knew it
or not
______________________________________
Bob Arnold
212 pages
perfect-bound
$20
$3.95 shipping
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Monday, January 25, 2021
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
RE-READING ANTLER
Antler — always startling fresh poems
come from this poet, and in a variety
of venues: early book from City Lights FACTORY (1980)
I highly recommend, plus his selected poems of a sort
in LAST WORDS (hope not) will keep you company
for the rest of your life. Born Brad Burdick in Wisconsin
in 1946, whenever I read Antler he seems ageless.
One of my most favorite poems by him
is the one we published
shown above.
[ BA ]
Thursday, January 21, 2021
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