KENT JOHNSON'S ~ I ONCE MET ~

KENT JOHNSON

I  Once  Met

 A Partial Memoir of the Poetry Field 

New and available now from Longhouse ~

 

Prose
176 pages
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Link to these new reviews at :

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/08/i-once-met-reviewed-at-locus-solus/

https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/to-the-memory-of-joe-brainard-kent-johnsons-i-once-met/ 

http://longhousepoetryandpublishers.blogspot.com/2015/08/john-phillips-hold-everything-dear.html

http://www.raintaxi.com/the-hole-of-hypocrisy-a-conversation-with-kent-johnson-on-the-u-s-avant-garde-and-other-fictions/ 

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"R a i n   B e a r"

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LORINE NIEDECKER

  

A Cooking Book 

~ $15

CARSON ARNOLD
If I Blinked Through
These Windows

Collected Music Writings     
a big soaking book of youth     

 ~ $18.95

 


J.D. WHITNEY
Sweeping The Broom Shorter

Selected Poems    

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BOB ARNOLD & JASON CLARK

 Sapline     
maple sugaring in Vermont    

~ $12

 

ROBIN MAGOWAN

The Garden of Amazement 

Scattered Gems After Sâeb 

~ $15

 

 

MALCOLM RITCHIE
Small Lines On The Great Earth

poems from Scotland    

~ $15

BOB ARNOLD
My Sweetest Friend  

poems from brother to sister     

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DUDLEY LAUFMAN
The Islandian 

Poems & Fables
journey to another land  

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CID CORMAN
of 
Volumes 4 & 5

edited by Bob Arnold 
 848 pages perfect bound

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Go West

c'mon! travel westward by train 
in a full book of photographs
& poems


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OPENINGS 
JAMES KOLLER

selected poems 1959 ~ 1985 
edited by Bob Arnold 


~ $12

BOB ARNOLD  
Start With The Tree

150 photographs by Susan Arnold
a lifetime of building & marriage      


 ~ $20

 

GERALD HAUSMAN
Island Dreams
160 pages, selected and edited by Bob Arnold 

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Duo

The Collected Bird Poems 1974-2014  

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F O R T H C O M I N G

John Bradley

Janine Pommy Vega

HAYING ~

Haying

 

Missed the hawk

 
Watching its shadow

 
Cross the field





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© Bob Arnold

from  DUO
Longhouse 2015

RENE CHAR ~

"Imagination, my child."

 "Children perform the delightful

miracle of remaining children

while seeing the world through

our eyes."

"In the darkness of our lives,

there is not one place for Beauty.

The whole place is for Beauty."

HYPNOS
CHAR
SEAGULL BOOKS

2015

GARY SNYDER & the BICYCLISTS ~

We've been having many bicyclists going by today, in fact it's a bike tour, it happens now and then.

At 930AM when I was out pruning the lilac trees I overheard this conversation occur by one bicyclist

with his small band of 4 or 5 as they passed by our house. "Yeah, well I woke up early this morning, got my bike. . . OH Nice! A Gary Snyder Quote. . . on the car. . ." and they were gone.

Back Road Chalkie

Gary Snyder

as told to

Stewart Brand

SAM SHEPARD ~

Sam Shepard

 The Paris Review Interview

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1281/the-art-of-theater-no-12-sam-shepard

 

 

LOSS ~

Loss


 

Put no trust in nothing, not even yourself

Yesterday was like summer, today snow blows

I’ve walked six miles with an axe and wedge

Actually make my living near a river that runs bright water

Home to a small hawk found mangled in the woodshed

Eyes opening, I load my rifle but won’t use it

Instead talk with the closest thing to me right now

Heavy gloves moving back short feathers

The break in its neck, claws no use, eyes closing




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© Bob Arnold

from  DUO
Longhouse 2015

LAST WOMAN STANDING ~

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/science/sister-megan-rice-anti-nuclear-weapons-activist-freed-from-prison.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

PETER STAMPFEL ~

http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/mystra.records.html

JEAN RITCHIE ~

Jean Ritchie

1922 Viper, Kentucky ~ 2015 Berea, Kentucky

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/02/411533533/jean-ritchie-singer-known-as-the-mother-of-folk-dies-at-92



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/arts/music/jean-ritchie-who-revived-appalachian-folk-songs-dies-at-92.html

ZEN ~

Counterpoint, 2001

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenBookReviews/Shoes_Outside_the_Door.html

VICENTE ALEIXANDRE ~

Love's Cutting Edge



When I look at you, mountain or tiny rose,

when I hold you, blue mountain pressed to my heart,

butterfly that comes as lightly as love,

like two royal lips spread out on the sky.



When I look at your soft form stretched out,

your faithful dream where even the smiles are true,

body that seems to me a heap of ripened wheat,

golden harvest that sleeps on the ground like happiness. . .



I see your young face smiling without fear

while thin clouds pass before it,

and your skin feels the high-flying birds

like feathers that brush you gently and smile.



Yes. Lying down you never imitate a held back river,

nor a lake with the sky finally resting in its depths.

Nor are you a sweet hill that comes to life

whenever the moon makes the earth's softness shine.



Your arm that lies resting on the grass

could be, yes, it could be something warm, inviting,

a sweet light that blends with moons

or cool stars as the night comes on.



Who are you calling?

The earth turning like a slow head

leaves its wake or long, silver hair,

leaves a murmur  of voices or beloved words

that the stars hear, like a water flowing out.



All of your crystal, or love,

all the mystery that rolls on unaware of you,

all the joy that comes is speaking gently in your ear

while your mouth surrenders like a half-open sea.



Tell me: Who kisses like the stars?

Who feels a steely moon at the back of the neck?

Who understands that light is a shiny blade

that slices in two whenever earthly lovers kiss?


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VICENTE ALEIXANDRE
World Alone
(Mundo A Solas)
translated by Lewis Hyde and David Unger
Penmaen Press 1982


( The Birdhouse dedicates this poem
to Lisa & J.D. and the month of June )

ANNE SPENCER ~

Sacred Spaces:

The House of Anne Spencer

photographs by John M Hall

Introduction by Jeffery Beam

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Spencer_Anne_1882-1975

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN ~

John Edgar Wideman

Harper's Magazine

June 2015

 

MY BLACK ANGEL ~

My Black Angel

Kim Addonizio
Charles D. Jones

Stephen Austin State University Press

HUMMINGBIRD ~

Hummingbird


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Rarely pausing

Though I have seen

It stop the flutter

Of its amazing

Wings and perch

Nearly invisible

On a wire against

The evening sky —

And be sighted —

And being very

Still, be thought

Of as not there

© Bob Arnold

from DUO
Longhouse 2015