Raúl Gómez Jattin ~

 

Urban Poet

That poet from Bogotá 

As a boy he never knew

the scent of wet earth

or the revealing touch of animals

or saw the river wash life away . . .

To make up for so many losses

he sets a bird free in every poem

Clouds come and clouds go

At each sunrise the sea

swells tides toward his forgetfulness

That poet

grows quiet when I write to him

about how man's most pressing tragedy

is his war against nature

He writes long poems

to a papier-mâché lover

You're no match for the flowers

Yours are tinplate stars

Your scenographic sea

doesn't reveal or give rise to memories

Poet

You must go to nature

To gaze upon it

To defend it

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Raúl Gómez Jattin

Almost Obscene

translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

& Olivia Lott

CSU,  2022

GARY PANTER'S PICTURE BOX ~

 

An intimate look at the work and life of a legendary artist. Gary Panter has been one of the most influential figures in visual culture since the mid-1970s. From his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon Jimbo to his visionary design for Pee-wee's Playhouse, he has left his mark on every medium he's touched. Working in close collaboration with the artist, PictureBox has assembled the definitive volume on Panter's work from the early 1970s to the present. This monumental, slipcased set is split into two 350-page volumes. The first is a comprehensive monograph featuring over 700 images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters and comics, alongside essays by Robert Storr, Mike Kelley, Richard Klein, Richard Gehr, Karrie Jacobs and Byron Coley, as well a substantial commentary by the artist himself. The second volume features a selection from Panter's sketchbooks--the site of some of his most audacious work--most of which has never been published in any form.
A three-time Emmy Award-winner for his production design on Pee-wee's Playhouse and the recipient of the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence, graphic artist Gary Panter has drawn inspiration from diverse vernacular and traditional art arenas over the course of the past four decades. Closely associated with the underground comics and music scenes on both coasts, he is responsible for designing the Screamers iconic 1970s poster, many record covers for Frank Zappa, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Residents and the ongoing comic character Jimbo. Most recently Panter has performed psychedelic light shows at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and at New York's Anthology Film Archives. He was a featured artist in the major 2006-2007 touring exhibition, Masters of American Comics.

PictureBox, 2008

ANN LAUTERBACH~

 

Door

I don't know who lives in those houses

with pastel doors, mint green

and pale salmon.  Whoever heard of a lavender

door in the middle of winter, as if

snow could dilute

alizarin crimson, saturated lapis,

deepest cobalt blue.  Perhaps

they imagine a kinder welcome.

Girls not able to reach the knobs,

their pink shoes and tired crayons;

boys with missing teeth; the dog barking.

Or an elder in slippers and gown

recalling the pale sprigs of April, the scent of lilac.

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Ann Lauterbach

Door

Penguin, 2023

THE CHILD AND THE RIVER ~

 

R E A D   M E

NYRB, 2023

EMILY DICKINSON FACE to FACE ~

 

R E A D    M E

McNally 2023

SAM RIVERS ~

 

Beatrice · Sam Rivers · Jaki Byard · Ron Carter · Tony Williams Fuchsia Swing Song ℗ 2015 Rivbea Music Released on: 2015-05-22 Mixer: Rudy Van Gelder Producer: Alfred Lion Composer: Sam Rivers Music Publisher: Rivbea Music (BMI)

AFFINITIES ~

 

R E A D    M E

New York Review of Books

2023

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

SIT BACK ~

 

THE  ENTIRE  CRITERION  FILM  COLLECTION  SUPERCUT

ALL YOU FONIES (WOODY GUTHRIE) NEVER GIT DRUNK NO MORE ~

 

Dropkick Murphys / Nikki Lane

lyrics:

Woody Guthrie

OPIKA PENDE AFRICA AT 78 RPM ~

 

"Opika Pende: Africa at 78rpm" is a 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78rpm recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD until now.

Dust-to-Digital

2011

BILL QUINN'S GOLD STAR RECORDINGS (TEXAS BLUES) ~

 

THE BUILDER ~

      Earth Dwelling

LOTS OF NEW TITLES AT LONGHOUSE ~

 

~ LATELY FROM LONGHOUSE ~

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A solar array of new fold-outs, bus-tickets and books

The "bus-tickets" and  foldout accordion chaplets 

are a survey of poetry as comprehensive 

and complete as a chapbook of poems

Most titles also come signed by the poet

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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

wishing to stay free despite the pitfalls. . .

Told from the perspective of a father's open letter

168 pages, perfect bound, prose

2024

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Bob Arnold, Full of Days

2023

4 color booklets of new poems

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Bob Arnold, To Be Of Use

~ a book of tools ~

poems

2023

 

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A book of many books!

Bill Bathurst, The Collected Bill Bathurst

w/ a forward by Clifford Burke

2022

poetry & prose

240 pages, perfect bound

_______________________________

Guy Birchard 

Ishmael

One poem postcard, many color

Winter 2020

Part of the "Fabulous Futures" Postcard series

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Samuel Green, A Swatch of Love Poems

2022

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Jonathan Green, Letters from a Hermit in the Eye of a Storm

2022

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Poetry

Kent Johnson, After Horace

2022

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Poems

Alexander Shalom Joseph, when it is so beautiful as it is

2023

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Book of new poems ~

Robin Magowan, An Eye in the Wind

2023

120 pages, perfect bound

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Poems

Jerry Martien, Border Lines

2023

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Poetry & Prose

Jerry Martien, Freeman House

2023

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Translations ~

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Rahim: Dohas

2023

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Resting Places 1 & 2

w/ a series of  photographs from India by the author

2023

Two booklets of poetry & photographs

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

"Love Thy Poet Forever" postcard poem series 2024

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Poems

Margaret Randall, Room 5007

2023

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Margaret Randall, Your Answer Is Your Map

2023

Poems & photographs by the poet

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Margaret Randall, translation of 

"Love Thy Poet Forever" postcard series 

2024

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Poetry 

Michael Rothenberg, The Death of Humanity

2023

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Poems

Andrew Schelling, Forest Temples Glacial Rivers

2023

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More Poems

Andrew Schelling, New Morning

2023

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 Even More Poems

Andrew Schelling, Persephone Thy Ancient Midden

2022

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New poems of the Sanskrit 

drawn by Andrew Schelling

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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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J. D. Whitney

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

136 pages, perfect bound

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J. D. Whitney

My Father Dead

One long poem broadside

a Longhouse Flip-Phone

Thanksgiving 2021

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J. D. Whitney

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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Issued from Longhouse

 2022-2023

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