GARY SNYDER COLLECTED POEMS ~

 

I finished the Snyder COLLECTED POEMS (Library of America, 2022) yesterday (then started Nelly Sachs, the new translations are refreshing, as they have been for Celan and Rimbaud). No doubt Snyder is the central river after Pound — it’s both in his poems, translations and far better than Pound, his psyche. I read every page. Some more than once. I maneuvered the many excellent notes and chronology by constantly referring to them, like a fine relief map. Ran my fingers over.

        DO NOT MISS THE TRIBUTE TO GARY           AT THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA

                                                   T H I S   E V E N I N G

KEITH JARRETT ~

 

CLAES OLDENBURG ~

 

C L A E S     O L D E N B U R G

Stockholm 1929 ~ Manhattan 2022

M O R E !

YOU DON'T KNOW US NEGROES ~

 

R E A D     M E

HOME SERVICE ~

 

With Home Service are several guest musicians — Andy Findon/saxophones, flute & clarinet; Phil Langham/fiddle, accordion and vocals; Eve Matheson/backing vocals; Philip Pickett/ recorders & shawm, etc. Also John Tams and Bill Caddick plus guest vocals from Linda Thompson.  Graeme Taylor plays some sstirring electric guitar solos.

MY MONEY DONE RUN OUT ~

 

Bob Corritore & Friends

RYOKAN ~

Replica of Zen Master Ryokan’s hut – Gogo-an

 

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My hut lies in the middle of a dense forest;

Every year the green ivy grows longer.

No news of the affairs of men,

Only the occasional song of a woodcutter.

The sun shines and I mend my robe;

When the moon comes out I read Buddhist poems.

I have nothing to report, my friends.

If you want to find the meaning, stop chasing after so many things.

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Ryokan (1758-1831)

Tr. John Stevens

BOBBY BYRD ~

 

T H E    G R E A T

B O B B Y     B Y R D

Memphis, April 15, 1942 ~ El Paso, July 11, 2022

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A Poem for my 79th Birthday 

Please

when it’s over 

scatter my ashes 

bones 

whatever 

in the Milky Way. 

Thank you.

Lee & Bobby Byrd, El Paso, Texas

 

ANAKANA SCHOFIELD ~

 

ANAKANA  SCHOFIELD

                                                                                New York Review of Books

2019

REMEMBERING L. Q. JONES ~

 

1927 ~ 2022

L.Q. Jones was born Justice Ellis McQueen in Beaumont, Texas. His first film role was in the 1955 film “Battle Cry,” playing a character named L.Q. Jones which he adopted for his stage name. He mostly appeared in Western films and TV series, becoming a favorite of revisionist Western director Sam Peckinpah. He played bounty hunter T.C in the Peckinpah film “The Wild Bunch,” and appeared in “Ride the High Country,” and “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” among others. On TV, he had guest roles in “Gunsmoke,” “The Big Valley,” and “The Virginian.” He directed, wrote, and produced the independent film “A Boy and his Dog” in 1975, based on a novella by Harlan Ellison.  

ANGELS< DEMONS, AND SAVAGES ~

 

R E A D     M E

Yale, 2013

NAJA MARIE AIDT ~

 

R E A D     M E

Coffee House Books, 2019

THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES ~

 

NATIVE AMERICANS OF NEW ENGLAND ~

 

ROBERT M. PIRSIG ~

 

R E A D      M E

DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA JULY 7, 1956 (NEWPORT) ~

 

Paul Gonsalves

THE BARTENDER ~

 

J O E     T U R K E L

Joe Turkel in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” (1980). Mr. Turkel’s ominously stoic presence shifted the film into a darker register.Credit...Warner Bros.

JACKIE SHANE ~

 

THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS ~

 

R E A D      M E

HAROLD BUDD, COMPOSER ~

 

H A R O L D    B U D D

M O R E  

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ~

 

R E A D     M E

CLIFFORD BURKE ~ THE ACCIDENTAL ART MACHINE ~

 

Deer Creek

2022

LINK DAVIS ~

 

RACHAEL ALLEN ~

Crying girl

in the canopy

branch held

unstable

a face drawn

pendant-

shaped, from

the bark

marks

how like

a tree is

a woman

crumbling

with age

conversations

inaudible

without a

stethoscope

to the forest

floor and

even then

we whisper.

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Rachael Allen

Kingdomland

Faber & Faber, 2019

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUAIT ~

 

R E A D      M E

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ~

 

R E A D      M E

Lawrence Hill, 2020

FRANCO ~

 

IAIN SINCLAIR ~

 

R E A D     M E

THE HIGH SIERRA ~

 

R E A D     M E

You're going to meander

but it's a fine Sierra Nevada

geological, historical, personalized

portrait, with chapters on the

masters of the place: 

John Muir, Mary Austin,

Clarence King, Norman Clyde

& Gary Snyder —

 for a more unique and

textural Sierra, see Norman Schaefer's

Records of a Broken-Down Mountaineer

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