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The Deep Middle (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Many pics of final fall color over the last two warm weeks. This cornucopia of color has to hold us all until April and May, so imbibe deeply (and those stupid icicle Chistmas lights where only a few odd sections blink irregularly do not count). One good thing about wandering the garden this time of year is finally seeing all the places where the monarchs got their pupation on. I found an empty chrysalis...
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Ode to Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
When I am suddenly a very, very wealthy woman, here are just a few (a very small few) the poetry books I'd like to own: Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry , The Academy of American Poets. This nifty little collection is poems to tear out, and just as the title suggest, read and carry. There is something immensely appealing to me about this whole idea. Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book...
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Dragoncave (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
As further evidence that haiku's popularity has spread all over the world, and continues to both inspire new writers, and new haiku-like forms, we present the Filipino-born variant on haiku, the hay(na)ku. A brief history, taken from the publication blurb of an inaugural anthology of poems in this form: The "hay(na)ku" is a poetic form invented by Eileen Tabios, as inspired by Richard Brautigan,...
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Ode to Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tonight, trying to find which Brautigan poem I wanted to share, I stumbled on a gold mine. Brautigan Bibliography and Archive is an awesome resource I have only begun to touch. Below is a nibble of Brautigan. Also, check out other poems of Brautigan I've posted in the past. If you like what you see, check out the above posted website. "Alas, Measured Perfectly" Richard Brautigan Saturday,...
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Ode to Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Sorry to be neglectful of this dear little blog. I have just been having so much fun with a new project, 365 Days of Twenty . Please, check it out. Hope you enjoy. But alas, don't worry. I am still an avid poetry lover. What am I reading these days? Well, in a class I'm taking I've been examining the works of Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. But, these...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
You may know Devendra Banhart as the hirsute dude who briefly dated Natalie Portman, but the 27-year-old Californian is a seriously gifted (and slightly eccentric) singer-songwriter who’s released six records of wonderfully experimental folk-rock. This month, he returns with What Will We Be , his first album for major-label Warner Bros. Vulture caught up with Banhart to talk about recording...
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MANUEL PAUL LOPEZ (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you. --Richard Brautigan
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1984 Oct. 26: Author Richard Brautigan, whose 1967 novel "Trout Fishing in America" made him a literary celebrity, was found dead yesterday at his...
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rob mclennan's blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
after Craven, after Spicer, after Rimbaud Here’s a novel I started in Toronto way back in October 1998, according to my notes. The idea of the book has been coming up again, after reading that Jack Spicer biography that Kevin Killian co-wrote , hearing rumours of a Brautigan biography as well, and receiving the new edition of Keith Abbott’s Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir...
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9th St. Laboratories (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
About the Spicer Series. The name, Jack Spicer, entered my consciousness for the first time in early September, 1971. A professor at a small private crossroads college had read my initial scribblings and immediately loaned me the book, “Trout Fishing in America” by Richard Brautigan. Not having read a great deal of what might be referenced as “literature,” I was blown away by...
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PICNIC CANNIBAL (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
My copies arrived! I'm stoked. The book looks great. I had to fix a few things from the galleys. "Irreverent" in one of the blurbs got misspelled as "irrevernet," which I admit was kind of of cool. Irrevernet is irreverent internet stuff. And of blurbs, this is what they say: If Mary Robison listened to more punk, grew up in Las Vegas in the 80s before the 80s sucked, did whippits...
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How May I inconvenience You Today? (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis affectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes me feel beautiful. 3 A.M. January 15, 1967 Tagged: beautiful, penis, poetry
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How May I inconvenience You Today? (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren’t you at all. Tagged: fear, identity, love, quotes
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The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Curtis remarked on today's today's masthead (Bisbo's biplane flying over Bisbee, Arizona): On this September 11th, how beautiful it was to fire-up the good old JWB and see Bisbonian's wonderful little plane against the sky. That may be happenstance, but I'll take it as another example of Richard Brautigan's notion that one day we'd be "watched over by machines of loving grace." Here's the...
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Ode to Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Tonight's mood: Odd. Restless. Anxious. Melancholy. Stubborn. Contemplative. Today I checked out a few books of Richard Brautigan's. I'd briefly explored his poetry last year, gave up on him, and once again I have returned. It's not that I think his work is particularly good. In fact, I think most of it's pretty pathetic, cheap, and of no literary merit whatsoever. And yet, I like it. So there. I Live...
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