…just reissued by Metambesem Press: When A Single-Minded Bestiary was first published in 1974, Ted Berrigan wrote: ““What we have here is ANIMAL MAGIC. Pierre Joris is the fox crossing the water; he is the forest from which the fox came and to which the fox goes; he is the hawk circling above it in the sun; and he is the foxfire. He is also the grandfather clock watching it … Read more A Book of Foxes…
We flew to New Orleans in the first week of November 2005, i.e. two months after Katrina had struck, for readings & meeting with friends. From notes I took while there I put together the following poem when we returned East. Here it is again, 10 years later, in memory of that disaster, of those who perished, of the friends we found devastated — but already energetically rebuilding Nola. A great city … Read more Remembering Nola 2005
via the excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 28, 2015 • ( 0 ) “Who’s Shakespeare?” a character asks in a new translation of Tunisian-Swedish writer Jonas Hassan Khemiri’s Invasion: Arab adaptations and appropriations of the bard are numerous; Margaret Litvin, Saffron Walkling, and ArabLit’s Raphael Cormack look at three (Tunisian, Iraqi, and Palestinian) in her recently published “Full of noises: when ‘World Shakespeare’ met the ‘Arab Spring.’” The publication … Read more World Shakespeare and the ‘Arab Spring’
Dismaland from Alex Jefferis on Vimeo.
Travel well, old friend. & Charles Olson on SR: ” “Youthful what? Where is Rodefer, he’ll know. That damn Lycidas. Whatever else England draws upon, it’s native talent will out. The damn Lycidas! Where did Rodefer go? Youthful what?” To the Barracks to the list Members, remember how I missed you when my aim was dead and your quivers bulged with passionate intensity. That slide’s not blue enough … Read more Stephen Rodefer (1940-2015)
via the great Arab literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 11, 2015 • ( 0 ) Laila Lalami and Rabih Alameddine were the two headliners on the 2015 Arab-American Book Awards winners’ list. Both their winning novels have already taken major laurels: Alameddine’s acclaimed An Unnecessary Woman was a finalist for the US’s National Book Award, while Lalami’s The Moor’s Account was a Pulitzer finalist, a winner of the American Book award, and is currently longlisted for the … Read more 2015 Arab-American Book Awards Go to Much-lauded Novels
Uri Avnery August 8, 2015 Divide et Impera BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is not known as a classical scholar, but even so he has adopted the Roman maxim Divide et Impera, divide and rule. The main (and perhaps only) goal of his policy is to extend the rule of Israel, as the “Nation-State of the Jewish People”, over all of Eretz Israel, the historical land of Palestine. This means ruling all … Read more Avnery’s Lucid Assessment
via Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 8, 2015 • ( 0 ) The Associated Press recently ran a brief story about digitization and restoration efforts at the Iraqi National Library in Baghdad: Digitization efforts have been ongoing for several years, as noted in this 2013 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) interview with Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq National Library and Archives. The hook in … Read more The Digitization Process at Iraq’s National Library