World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol.17 - Romania (Alan Lomax) ~

 

MURAL ~

Wait til I pack my bag Death

my toothbrush soap after-shave and some clothes

Is the climate warm over there?

Do the seasons change in the eternal whiteness?

Or does the weather stay fixed in autumn or winter?

Will one book be enough to read in non-time?

Or should I take a library?

And what do they talk over there?

vernacular or classical?

__________________________

from MURAL

translated by John Berger & Rema Hammami

Verso, 2024

Mahmoud Darwish was the unofficial laureate of Palestine.

Darwish's poetry is an epic effort to transform the lyrics

of loss into the indefinitely postponed drama of return

EDWARD SAID

World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. IV - Spain

 

THE ESSENTIAL HARLEM DETECTIVES ~

 

H A R L E M    D E T E C T I V E S

Everyman's Library, 2024

(beautifully designed books —

paper, typeface, cloth feel, color)

DELMORE SCHWARTZ ~

 

Praise Is Traditional and Appropriate

I loved the wood because I found in it

Mushrooms, berries, beetles, birds and other words,

Hedgehogs, squirrels, memories, quarrels,

        and the damp smell

Of dead leaves, and former lives.

            I reached the first barn

— where wheat was stored—halfway up the slope

            of the ravine

And saw her dancing, glancing twinkly eyes

Full of the hope and love which all thought mean,

And slate-green, slate-blue, blue or black like the sunrise

Skies, and in their variety and in their sheen

I thought that she was looking down at me

As if she understood past, present, and futurity.

______________________________________

The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz

edited by Ben Mazer

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2024

one of the posthumously published poems

DANIEL KRAMER WAS THERE FIRST ~

 

                                                                                         Daniel Kramer, via Staley-Wise Gallery, New York

D A N I E L    K R A M E R

  May 19, 1932 ~ 2024

ALICE MUNRO ~

 

                                                                                                         Ian Willms for The New York Times

A L I C E    M U N R O

   July 10,1931 ~ 2024

JEM COHEN ~

 

   M O R E

PIRATES ~

 

R E A D     M E

ROGER CORMAN ~

 

R O G E R   C O R M A N

   1926 ~ 2024

MERCY DEE WALTON ~

 

TOMMY RIDGLEY ~

 

BLACK WALDEN ~

 

R E A D    M E

    University of Pennsylvania Press

MAX PORTER ~

 

R E A D    M E

Graywolf 2023

STEVE ALBINI ~

 

Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61

A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.

T H E   B E S T   T H I N G   Y O U ' L L   R E A D   T O D A Y 

FAREWELL, DAVID SHAPIRO ~

 

D A V I D    S H A P I R O

A friend of Longhouse ~ 

goodbye David

I'll forever remember

the phone call

from New York City

where you spoke

lovingly — poetry

art, the countryside —

nonstop

for an hour

THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE ~

 

D A N C E     M E

Verso, 2022

SEA CRUISE (REMASTERED) ~

 

NATALIA GINZBURG ~

 

R E A D    M E

New Directions, 2023

JOHN LEE HOOKER ~

 

JOHN  LEE  HOOKER