CONVERSATION AT PRINCETON ~

 

R E A D    M E

NINA SIMONE ~

 

THE STROLL (IDAHO) ~

 

1958

SNOOKS EAGLIN ~

 

WALT WHITMAN, SPECIMEN DAYS ~

 

TWO SHERPAS ~

 

R E A D      M E

Charco Press

U.K.

UNRULY SAINT ~

 

R E A D    M E

PETE COSEY ~

 

October 9, 1943 – May 30, 2012

AFFIRMATIVE (THE GREAT MANDALA) ~

 

CISCO HOUSTON ~

 

JOZEF CZAPSKI ~

 

R E A D     M E

NYRB, 2022

LESLEY HARRISON ~

 

Kitchen Music

New York, 2017

                   collage = REALITY

                                       — Joseph Cornell

i.

the morning after

with its "back to life" feeling.

manhattan breakfast:

a restaurant of

silver grey driftwood -

a feeling of water.

ii.

outside the coffee shop

a young bird alighted -

treethrushsong

iii.

a gulf of rain,

and the city sinks an inch.

at Penn Station, the lush tyres of yellow taxis -

umbrellas of Cherbourg

in the subway crush.

iv.

chance encounters:

old back yards,

reflections of the sun through curtains

from the sidewalk, gleaming

the city market,

"Hey Jude" among

bees and melons

a steel bridge, the Hudson

blank between the walls.

a corner bar.

a girl in a window.

v.

Thursday at the arboretum:

cool green

the cafe kitchen window open

and sounds tunnel in

- song sparrows,

butterflies that churr

vi.

downtown evening:

the sky towers of Manhattan

dark green against a stark aqua sky

then home, the sea

a new north blue.

the chill early March breezes

a wild piano music.

nostalgia wiped clear

vii.

this morning

among the tidewrack:

azimuth, whale bone

shoes and twine, a tedium of

cartons, floats

varia, et cetera.

a day owl, almost blue.

viii.

couch dream evening

entre chien et loup,

a high angelic sunset

"the earth with yellow pears

and wild with roses"

ix.

ephemera:

what minute (infinitesimal)

living can be

______________________

Lesley Harrison

Kitchen Music

New Directions, 2023

BOB DYLAN RETROSPECTRUM ~

 

R E A D    M E

Skira /Maxxi

2022

Italy

PETER S. BEAGLE ~

 

R E A D    M E

Tachyon Publications

2023

PAUL ICKOVIC ~

 

When a friend came to tea and impulsively donned a rabbit mask owned by Mr. Ickovic, the photographer quickly grabbed his camera for an “Alice in Wonderland” sendup.Credit...Paul Ickovic/Robert Klein Gallery

P A U L    I C K O V I C

1944, England ~ 2023, Prague

JAMES BOOKER ~

 

YEUGENIA BELOAUSETS: WAR DIARY (UKRAINE) ~

 

"How can the world put an end to this crime? This is not just a war

but a continuous terrorist attack. And it looks like these crimes that

subjugate and colonize the Ukrainian people are meant not only to

intimidate us, but also to terrify the whole world. 

Despair and fear help make this terror possible."

from War Diary

New Directions / ISOLARII

2023

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER ~

 

b. June 22, 1947

Pasadena, CA.

THE WASTE LAND ~

 

R E A D     M E

Reading a new superb book on Eliot and The Wasteland. I’m about to say on the Birdhouse the book has some of the same robust as The Pound Era. I wasn’t taking the book seriously until I was midway and then it dawned on me that I was the weakling here as a reader, the book is a marvel. I plan to continue where I woke up (midway) and finish the book and then out of respect must begin the book again and travel over everything I missed. I can pick up the thread midway in the book where I woke up since I know too well all the history and story but this is a fresh biography of the great poem, the great time, the great individual youngsters.

[ BA ]

    Norton 2022

LESTER YOUNG ~