LUDMILA ULITSKAYA ~

 

R E A D   M E

Body of the Soul

BY LUDMILA ULITSKAYA ; TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY

Yale University Press

2023

A DREAM IN THE CREAM ~

a selection 

_____________________

O the purity

of the aloneness

of pulling off socks

Dark kitchen

but the lights of

a distant bridge

An old woman

breaking teeth

off a comb

Ignorant of their own souls

monkeys swinging

between temples

Possibly the

largest shell on the beach

and it looks like a shoe

Being sad

and pissing

at the same time

During lunch

stories about

sandwiches

Making

dying flowers glow

the moon's best intentions

Dusting a mirror

she takes a moment

to check her eyebrows

Small bronze head with big nose

holding down

take-out menus

Garden diary

all that's left

of the garden

Such an elegant rainfall

even the dog refuses

to shake it off

Cold summer rain

piercing my shirt

slipping between ribs

A small grave of sorrows

on one branch

in one bird

____________________

Ronald Baatz

A Dream in the Cream

Black Fig Press, 2021

CLEMENS STARCK ~

 

FAREWELL, CLEM

 November 30, 1937 ~ March 21, 2024

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FLANNERY O'CONNOR ~

 

R E A D    M E

   Good Things Out of Nazareth

   Convergent, 2019

THE 5 ROYALES ~

 

SOCIAL FORESTRY ~

 

R E A D    M E

Synergetic Press

2023

HIROKO OYAMADA ~

 

R E A D    M E

      New Directions, 2020

MARJORIE PERLOFF ~

 

M A R J O R I E   P E R L O F F

1931 ~ 2024

BILL MONROE & DOC WATSON ~

 

OSAMU DAZAI ~

 

O S A M U     D A Z A I

R E A D    M E

LUCY SANTE ~

 

L I S T E N

R E A D    M E

   Penguin 2024

JOSEPH SPENCE, ENCORE ~

 

Smithsonian Folkways

2021

DIARIES OF EXILE ~

 

DIARY OF EXILE III

April 25

This year the blackbirds are the tiles

on the roof of summer.

Fear gropes like the blind man's hand

for the handle of the door.

You sit on a rock

You're calm because you're tired

you're good because you were afraid

you forget easily because you don't want to remember

you don't forget.

May 1

The soldier crushed his cigarette into the ground.

How easily every single thing can be crushed.

Across the water, Laviro.

Who is it who said: the women reapers

with the swallows' scythe?

Cover your ears with your hands.

Shame. Shame.

May 3

The people sit in the sun

they take off their jackets

their boots become tight

the soldiers' armpits sweat.

You rub a little thyme between your fingers.

This is how we slowly slowly age

above the second death.

May 4

Someone is smoking beside the guardhouse.

The evening star looks out above the mountain

as if it's knocked on the wrong door.

The utility poles darken

they stretch full length

afraid they'll bend.

May 5

They owe us a lot.

If we don't get it back

we'll owe that too.

The floorboards are moldy from the damp

the windows warped the panes broken

dirtied sheets loose boots

the bread has no odor

the people have grown very thin

like saints.

Concentration camp

Makronisos, 1950

_______________________

Yannis Ritsos

Diaries of Exile

translated by Karen Emmerich & Edmund Kelley

Archipelago Books, 2013

TIN FOIL TO VINYL ~

 

R E A D     M E

Bloomsbury 2023

        

VERMONTER ~

 

M. Emmet Walsh in “Blood Simple” (1984), the first feature film by Joel and Ethan Coen.Credit...

River Road Productions/Circle — Sunset Boulevard, via Corbis, via Getty Images

M.  EMMET  WALSH

1935 ~ 2024

PULLING THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN ~

 

R E A D    M E

Scribner 2023

CELEBRATING TANGRAM (JERRY REDDAN) ~

 

   Berkeley, California

World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol.3 - Scotland (Alan Lomax) ~

 

BOOT REBUILD ~

 

World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. II - Ireland (Alan Lomax) ~