Saturday, July 20, 2019
Friday, July 19, 2019
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Monday, July 15, 2019
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.
Labels:
Bob Arnold ("Doe"),
Country Journal Magazine,
poetry
Sunday, July 14, 2019
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
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
PYOTR PAVLENSKY ~
“Lighting,” 2017, Paris.
CreditCapucine Henry/Associated Press
“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
Labels:
Art,
France,
Performance,
Pyotr Pavlensky,
Russia
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
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

Tuesday, July 9, 2019
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 ]
Labels:
Jamey Gambrell,
Marina Tsvetaeva,
Russian Poetry,
Yale
Monday, July 8, 2019
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