AN INTERVIEW WITH BOB ARNOLD BY MUSIC ARTIST JOSHUA BURKETT

 

An interview with Bob Arnold

by music artist Joshua Burkett

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S. CLAY WILSON ~

 

S. Clay Wilson in 1967.

Tim Forcade

S. CLAY WILSON 

Riot In Cell Block Number Seven (1977)

POETS WHO SLEEP #37 ~

P O E T S     W H O     S L E E P

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                                           drawn & scribed by Bob Arnold

The complete series to date ~ please link here

ELDER CHARLES BECK ~

 

Elder Charles Beck from Mobile, Alabama was a popular gospel singer, evangelist and multi-instrumentalist. He started his career in the 1920s working as pianist with Rev. D.C. Rice and started his solo career in 1937 with an early recording of Thomas Dorsey's great composition "Precious Lord" 

JANINE POMMY VEGA ~

 

 Today is

Janine Pommy Vega's

Birthday

( 1942- 2010 )

and this

Spring

we will celebrate

Janine

with a

new book of

vintage

poems —

watch this

post

for

details ~

Happy

Birthday !

Janine

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drawing by bob arnold

NOT GOING TO END WELL ~

 

J. HOBERMAN

(Don't Miss the Film )

RE-READING ELSE LASKER-SCHULER ~

 

My edition of Concert (Konzert in German)

has for its front cover, naturally, one of Franz Marc's

wondrous postcard paintings which the artist sent to

Lasker-Schuler almost monthly over the years 1912-14.

Marc would perish in WW I at Verdun as a soldier in 1916,

one year after another of the author's associates,

the poet Georg Trakl, took his life after the horrendous

battle of Grodek. Misery traveled with Else Lasker-Schuler

whether the death of her beloved mother and brother Paul, and even her

only child, also Paul, from an ill-fated marriage, and still in

Concert we receive a dulcet style of stories, essays, dream-state

vignettes. It was one of the last books published by a Jew before

the rise of the Third Reich. Lasker-Schuler was out of Germany before

Hitler clearly showed his face, and wandering, wandering, eventually settling

elderly and unevenly in Palestine, struggling with the language and never

quite coming to terms with where she was and the Palestine of her dreams.

She would die of heart failure in 1945 after publishing her last book of

poems, My Blue Piano (Mein Blaues Klavier). In 1952

Gottfried Benn declared Lasker-Schuler "the greatest

poetess Germany ever had."

Poetry sails through her prose.

[ BA ]

SAVANNAH CHURCHILL ~

 

POETS WHO SLEEP #36 ~

P O E T S     W H O     S L E E P

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                                           drawn & scribed by Bob Arnold

The complete series to date ~ please link here

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"

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Lyle Glazier

Prefatory Lyrics

Coffee House Press, 1991

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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 ]

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 ]

RE-READING PAUL BOWLES (GERTRUDE STEIN) ~

 

Did you know Gertrude Stein

pointed Paul Bowles

toward his longtime

hangout of

Tangiers?

Read more!

P A U L     B O W L E S

EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH ~

 

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