BEN LERNER ~

 

No Art

Tonight I can't remember why

everything is permitted or,

what amounts to the same thing,

forbidden. No art is total, even

theirs, even though it raises

towers or kills from the air,

there's too much piety in despair

as if the silver leaves behind

the glass were politics

and the wind they move in

and the chance of scattered

storms. Those are still

my ways of making and

I know that I can call on you

until you're real enough

to turn from. Maybe I have fallen

behind, am falling, but

I think of myself as having

people, a small people

in a failed state, and love

more avant-garde than shame

or the easy distances.

All my people are with me now

the way the light is.

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Ben Lerner

The Lights

Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

DAZAI : SELF PORTRAITS ~

 

R E A D     M E

Kodansha International

1991

MILAN KUNDERA ~

   

Who is a vandal? It is absolutely not the illiterate peasant who in a fit of fury sets fire to the rich landowner's mansion. The vandals I myself run into are all of them educated, pleased with themselves, socially well situated, and not especially resentful toward anyone. The vandal, rather, is that prideful narrow mind, pleased with itself and ever ready to claim its rights. That proud narrow-minded fellow believes that the power to fit the world to his own image is among his inalienable rights and, since the world is largely made up of matters beyond his capacities, he adapts the world to his image by destroying it. Thus, an adolescent knocks the head off some statue in a park because the statue infuriatingly seems a better human than he; and since any act of self-affirmation brings man satisfaction, he does it with delight. Men who live only their only contextless present, who know nothing of the historical continuity around it and who lack culture, can transform their nation into a desert with no history, no memory, no echoes, and untouched by beauty.

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MILAN KUNDERA

"Address to the Czech Writers' Congress:

The Literature of Small Nations"

( 1967 )

translated from the French by Linda Asher

from:

Milan Kundera 

A Kidnapped West

The Tragedy of Central Europe

Harper, 2023

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A memoir, giant photo album, and selected poems 1974-2022

Bob Arnold, Faraway Like the Deer's Eye

2022

442 full-color pages

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The story of Wes, a young man born free and

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168 pages, perfect bound, prose

2024

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2023

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2023

 

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2022

poetry & prose

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Ishmael

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Winter 2020

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2022

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2022

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2022

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2023

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2023

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2023

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2023

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2023

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2023

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

"Love Thy Poet Forever" postcard poem series 2024

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Poems

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2023

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Margaret Randall, Your Answer Is Your Map

2023

Poems & photographs by the poet

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2024

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2023

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2023

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2023

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2022

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Vinod Kumar Shukla, 

translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

I Step Out To Go Next Door

2023

w/ photographs by Shashwat Gopal

 of the poet at home

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Margaret Randall, translator

"Love Thy Poet Forever" postcard series 2024

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Anne Waldman (text) / Diana Lizette Rodriguez (art)

Strange Light in the Lodge

"Fabulous Futures" Postcard Series 2021

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"130 poems to take you over the moon" [ BA ]

136 pages, perfect bound

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My Father Dead

One long poem broadside

a Longhouse Flip-Phone

Thanksgiving 2021

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My 

A Fabulous Futures Flip-Phone long card poem

Winter 2020

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J. D. Whitney

Oklahoma

"A Fabulous Futures" many color postcard 2020

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Finn Wilcox, Six Poems for Maor

2022

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