BLESS ITS POINTED LITTLE HEAD ~

 

BLIND WILLIE MCTELL TONIGHT ~

 

CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS ~

 

R E A D   M E

 

University of California

2025

MURRAY KEMPTON GOING AROUND ~

R E A D   M E 

    Seven Stories

    2025

CHARLIE PATTON TONIGHT ~

 

2005 Shanachie

ARCHIVE ~ LUDMILLA PETRUSHEVSKAYA ~

 

R E A D   M E

Penguin 2006

JUAN RULFO ~

 

R E A D   M E

       University of Texas Press

      2024

REMEMBERING SHEILA JORDAN TONIGHT ~

 

ELLMANN'S JOYCE ~

 

R E A D   M E

      Harvard University Press

     2025

JIMMY WITHERSPOON TONIGHT ~

 

1963 Fantasy, Inc.

REFAAT ALAREER ~

 

REFAAT  ALAREER

If I Must Die

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze —
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself —
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love.
If I must die
let it bring hope,
let it be a story.

OR Books, 2024

AHARON SHABTAI ~

 

Tikkun

The horror

the calamity

the disgrace,

the rubble of folly

and religion's stupidities,

the dimness of vision

and violence of despair

won't be repaired by an officer,

a bomb or a plane,

and not by still more blood.

Only wisdom of the heart could mend it

only the surgeon, the doctor,

the good teacher, the teachers

the medic — an Arab, a Jew —

only the quiet traveler

riding a bicycle,

someone carrying a sandwich

and walking along a street,

someone opening their eyes,

someone who speaks with compassion,

someone listening

someone learning and wise

someone waiting and thinking

someone guiding someone

down a path of kindness, affection,

the painter, the poet,

disciples of peace —

only the gardeners of peace.

                                                                      October 10, 2023

_________________________________

Aharon Shabtai

Requiem

translated by Peter Cole

New Directions, 2025

YOSHITOMO NARA ~

 

R E A D   M E

    Guggenheim 2024

MEMPHIS SLIM TONIGHT ~

 

CONDITIONAL CITIZENS ~

 

R E A D   M E

       Pantheon 2020

THE MAGIC BAND TONIGHT ~

 

   1972

T E N   Y E A R S   L A T E R

BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET TONIGHT ~

 

   2023

LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS ~

 

R E A D   M E

      The Idol's Kiss, 20th Century by Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas

   Phaidon 2024

GERALD MURNANE'S BARLEY PATCH ~

 

R E A D   M E

       And Other Stories, 2025

ARCHIVE: HOWARD ZINN / THE BOMB ~

 

R E A D   M E

    City Lights Books,

    2010