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Thursday, April 10, 2014
BURLS ~
REDWOOD TREES HAVE SURVIVED LIGHTNING, FIRE, HIGH WINDS AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS
BUT NOT MAN ~
BUT NOT MAN ~
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
CARSON ARNOLD'S NEW BOOK ~
NEW FROM LONGHOUSE!
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Carson Arnold comes from a place where poetry is dignity and where nature
defines all. As any teenager will attest, you either scowl or smile away the
purity of realism, and in Carson’s case he expressed this dynamic in a
dialogue with music, primarily rock n roll and all its offspring. Owing to
nada, but going for the gold, and dreaming towards radical awareness.
And the kid done grown up.
— Thurston Moore
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Carson Arnold comes from a place where poetry is dignity and where nature
defines all. As any teenager will attest, you either scowl or smile away the
purity of realism, and in Carson’s case he expressed this dynamic in a
dialogue with music, primarily rock n roll and all its offspring. Owing to
nada, but going for the gold, and dreaming towards radical awareness.
And the kid done grown up.
— Thurston Moore
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Carson Arnold
If I Blinked Through These Windows
Music Essays & Interviews
Longhouse 2014
456 pages
$18
$3.95 shipping (USA)
International orders please inquire
ORDER NOW!
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or
with easy to use Paypal ~
By credit card, check
or
with easy to use Paypal ~
For International orders, please inquire as to shipping
Email : poetry@sover.net
AFTERWORD TO THE BOOK_______________________________
Most of the essays and interviews on Track and H(ear) can be found at the website: www.LonghousePoetry/hear.html
There were a few longer interviews with the musicians Dredd Foole and Peter Siegel — too long to manage in print — that are not in this collection but can be found at the same website.
The postcard series LISTEN! is shown here in facsimile copies, but there are real copies, in limited edition, available from Longhouse.
This book publication was made by Bob Arnold, with great help from Susan Arnold, the mother of the lode. One day, Bob said, he walked into Carson's music store and saw a young man busy at work helping customers with their requests and keeping good cheer with his fellow employees. It was the ultimate tribal experience of record stores around the world. The groove. You know one when you're in one.
He also saw that this young man had gone through some struggles. That this treasure chest of writing had been done, and while some from his website readers had sent back hurrahs and salutations (music energy is beautiful) there was something missing in his hands, and it may be this book.
So over one of the coldest and snowiest winters in the backwoods, or anywhere else, for years — two~hands set to work to compile a book and have this ready for Carson’s 29th birthday in June. Same birth date as Che Guevara's; same day as Flag Day — just to show you how much of a Gemini this young fellow is.
Age 29.
Not yet 30.
You can still trust him.
— Levi RoseThere were a few longer interviews with the musicians Dredd Foole and Peter Siegel — too long to manage in print — that are not in this collection but can be found at the same website.
The postcard series LISTEN! is shown here in facsimile copies, but there are real copies, in limited edition, available from Longhouse.
This book publication was made by Bob Arnold, with great help from Susan Arnold, the mother of the lode. One day, Bob said, he walked into Carson's music store and saw a young man busy at work helping customers with their requests and keeping good cheer with his fellow employees. It was the ultimate tribal experience of record stores around the world. The groove. You know one when you're in one.
He also saw that this young man had gone through some struggles. That this treasure chest of writing had been done, and while some from his website readers had sent back hurrahs and salutations (music energy is beautiful) there was something missing in his hands, and it may be this book.
So over one of the coldest and snowiest winters in the backwoods, or anywhere else, for years — two~hands set to work to compile a book and have this ready for Carson’s 29th birthday in June. Same birth date as Che Guevara's; same day as Flag Day — just to show you how much of a Gemini this young fellow is.
Age 29.
Not yet 30.
You can still trust him.
photos © susan arnold
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
KEM NUNN ~
I don't know. . .Thomas Perry can be quite good when it comes to the crime thriller, not always even, but good enough. He usually starts off with a bang, pads the middle, and when he's the best, creeps with you on all fours to the finish line. The Butcher's Boy certainly. Fidelity is pretty well twisted on tight, as is Pursuit, and the recent The Boyfriend isn't bad, except the boyfriend himself isn't all that memorable. Perry's had better women assassins.
Enough on Perry. It's Kem Nunn I'm here for. His books are three Perry's-in-one for dynamo, and unlike Perry, Nunn isn't writing a cookbook method mystery. He's writing powerful, well-built novels, often starring a surfing culture, or bikers, or outcasts of some model and misshape, or a Native American tribe; and for what Raymond Chandler did for his time in Los Angeles, I believe Nunn is doing it now in present California, all with a certain knowing click and hipness that Chandler owned in his era.
Nunn's first book, the best novel ever written about surfing, Tapping the Source, should be showcased here with The Dogs of Winter. Again, surfers, but this time not in southern California as with Tapping, but in the outback of northern California. It turns out a dangerous corner of the woods.
Chance is brand new. With characters clumsy and tattered and even boring in some ways which in the hands of Nunn he can handle with his eyes closed. You can almost feel him enjoying playing with this role as a writer making something grand out of nothing. Barely a surf in this book, but surf is there, because we're all the time in San Francisco. I couldn't put the book down, but I did, because I wanted the pleasure of fine writing over a few days.
As soon as I finished Chance...I ordered, used, Tijuana Straits. The only book of Nunn's I haven't read and could have when it first appeared, but like I say, I want his books to last. So I've been saving this one. While I wait for the book to show, I reread The Dogs. . .since it's been over ten years since I last read the novel, and I might be a wee bit smarter now having the second reading grabbing me by the arm. Taking me under.
[ BA ]
Enough on Perry. It's Kem Nunn I'm here for. His books are three Perry's-in-one for dynamo, and unlike Perry, Nunn isn't writing a cookbook method mystery. He's writing powerful, well-built novels, often starring a surfing culture, or bikers, or outcasts of some model and misshape, or a Native American tribe; and for what Raymond Chandler did for his time in Los Angeles, I believe Nunn is doing it now in present California, all with a certain knowing click and hipness that Chandler owned in his era.
Nunn's first book, the best novel ever written about surfing, Tapping the Source, should be showcased here with The Dogs of Winter. Again, surfers, but this time not in southern California as with Tapping, but in the outback of northern California. It turns out a dangerous corner of the woods.
Chance is brand new. With characters clumsy and tattered and even boring in some ways which in the hands of Nunn he can handle with his eyes closed. You can almost feel him enjoying playing with this role as a writer making something grand out of nothing. Barely a surf in this book, but surf is there, because we're all the time in San Francisco. I couldn't put the book down, but I did, because I wanted the pleasure of fine writing over a few days.
As soon as I finished Chance...I ordered, used, Tijuana Straits. The only book of Nunn's I haven't read and could have when it first appeared, but like I say, I want his books to last. So I've been saving this one. While I wait for the book to show, I reread The Dogs. . .since it's been over ten years since I last read the novel, and I might be a wee bit smarter now having the second reading grabbing me by the arm. Taking me under.
[ BA ]
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Saturday, April 5, 2014
CROWNED ~
Crowned
A book fell on my head today while building up in the cottage with Sweetheart. All day slugging out new shelving. Sweetheart moving lots of books as well with me over snow. With a sled. Have to be very careful, one tipsy with the sled and many books ruined in the mud and snow-melt puddles. The puddles are now deep. We'll take it if it means the snow is melting. It says it is melting. We say keep up the good work. So back to the book that crowned me. Sure enough, one by Codrescu. One I have been lugging around from building to building waiting for it to sell over 10 years. Never did. I dropped the price down to $3.95 hardcover, brand new. The problem is it crowned me on the head at an inopportune time for me and the book (but not Codrescu, he didn't feel a thing), and on the second floor, with the windows wide open (double window shutter style, lots of wide opening) I took the book in one hand and motion flung it out the window to never never land. Into snow. Near a brook running well, the cover flew off mid-flight. Ah, well. Temper temper. Two hours later we got back to the house and sure enough, there was an order for the book, we sold it. You can bet in the split second before I tossed the book I knew we had another copy, this was a double, so expendable with my wrath. All is well.
Friday, April 4, 2014
CEDAR SIGO ~
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Language Arts
Cedar Sigo
Wave Books, 2014
www.wavepoetry.com
Thursday, April 3, 2014
FRANK SAMPERI ~ TRILOGY ~
Coming very close to mirroring the masterpiece three volumes first published by Mushinsha/Grossman in the early 1970s,
here we have the Trilogy all under one roof, in one volume, from Skysill Press in England. Once again, an American poet has to be taken across the Atlantic only to be brought back home. With three authors writing appreciations of Samperi — Robert Kelly, Peter O'Leary, and Elizabeth Robinson — something new for this new edition.
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Frank Samperi
Trilogy
Skysill Press
3 Gervase Gardens
Clifton Village
Nottingham NG11 8LZ
skysillpress.blogspot.com
Then the dwelling of the angel in the road
or rather the odor
sign
of the dwelling
continuing
habituating the man
to the daily
drawing out radiance
preparing
rendering
transparent
the surroundings
the universe
the aureole
receiving
truest
ray
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
POSTCARD 34 ~
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley arrived at the White House carrying a commemorative world war II colt .45. Being a badge collector he wanted to trade the gun to President Nixon for a narcotics bureau badge. Elvis received the badge and the gun is now on display at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. The irony is too thick & bewildering to measure.
Anyway, no one looks stoned here.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
J.D. WHITNEY'S SELECTED POEMS ~
NEW FROM LONGHOUSE!
J.D. Whitney
Sweeping the Broom Shorter
Selected Poems 1964-2014
Longhouse 2014
192 pages
ORDER NOW!
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or
with easy to use Paypal ~
$15.00
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For International orders, please inquire as to shipping
email: poetry@sover.net
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
WATERS ~
Paul Wellstone
Senator (D)
Minnesota
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I had Paul Wellstone in mind today and thought it a good idea to pay my respects to the loss of a fine fellow, most likely murdered for being a fine fellow, eleven days before his re-election to the Senate (October 2002), where he would have provided the Democrats with a majority vote.
While we're in Minnesota, let's drop over to Wisconsin and have a look around:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/the-fight-for-wisconsins-soul.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0
and then out to the Pacific Northwest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/egan-at-home-when-the-earth-moves.html?hp&rref=opinion
and then out to the Pacific Northwest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/egan-at-home-when-the-earth-moves.html?hp&rref=opinion
Remember, rivers run through us.
wikipedia
the ny times
the atlantic
the ny times
the atlantic
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
THOREAU'S HUT AFTER WALDEN ~
The paragraph above will shine some light on the whereabouts of the hut by the pond, after the fact
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
Michael Sims
Bloomsbury, 2014
page 315
photo © bob arnold
Thursday, March 27, 2014
POSTCARD 33 ~
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Colorado
On the high line, 400 feet above the Animas River in Colorado runs the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Once upon a time I rode the RR with someone I bought a ring for in the old mining town of Silverton that fit perfectly, and by the time we returned down from the high altitude to Durango, the ring fell loose. She's still with me.
photo by Kim Todd
POSTCARD 32 ~
Many of the most dangerous criminals in the United States were sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentary to serve their sentences. Al Capone, George Kelly and Robert Stroud were three of the well known convicts that spent time on "the rock". While two of the three used bullets, Robert Stroud handled birds and wasn't as handsome as Burt Lancaster who portrayed Stroud in the 1962 film The Birdman of Alcatraz.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
WE ARE STILL HERE ~
Visually stunning portrait of The American Indian Movement through its deep historical roots (arguably more "American" than anyone else) through its battles, defeats, radicalization, honor.
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We Are Still Here
A photographic History of
The American Indian Movement
photographs ~ Dick Bancroft
text ~ Laura Waterman Wittstock
Borealis Books
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