The author won’t need a headstone . . . This monumental omnibus will do . . . Five hundred and eight-six gorgeous pages of verbal pleasure . . . Intimate collaborations with esteemed artists . . . Landscapes of descriptive simplicity . . . Pure thought objectified . . .
New from Moloko
David Hockney Liked to Draw by Other Means
David Hockney’s departure has drawn obituaries from across the art world and the popular press, which is testimony to his eminence whether his paintings and drawings are considered a simple pleasure to look at or regressive to contemplate. Whatever it comes down to, he loved to experiment.
Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to Sleep’
A simple poem becomes an otherworldly love song with the collaboration of a singer and composer.
Stadtlichter Presse Makes My Heart Beat Stronger
It’s a wonder that the most intriguing publisher of American poets of the Beat Generation happens to be a German publisher, Stadtlichter Presse. Its “Heartbeat” series features not only the most notable — Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, and Ferlinghetti — in bilingual editions, but also dozens of less famous Beats and Beat-era or Beat-related poets.
Statement of Fact
In my
generation’s war,
our peaceful protests
kept the peace
the best we could —
yet could not.
without my interference
the world
slips gently by
even when
it’s shouting
Mayday
New From Moloko
Taking a Trip with A. Robert Lee’s Travel Painting
UPDATED
Verse and vignette. New and selected writings. The title phrase belongs to the great haiku master Matsuo Bashō
Awaiting an Uncrackable Code
If poetry make nothing happen, as W.H. Auden once wrote, it sometimes uncannily anticipates what will.
The Bard Died 410 Years Ago Today. His Poems Live On
Sometimes he rewrote them. See an example and decide which you prefer: the early or the later version.
THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is coming soon . . .
It Probes the Secret Prison History of American Music
Colin Asher, author of the critically acclaimed biography of Nelson Algren “Never a Lovely So Real,” now focuses on five emblematic figures — Huddle Ledbetter, Elmo Hope, Johnny Cash, Ike White, and Tupac Shakur — as he explores the influence of incarceration on blues artists, jazz musicians, country singers, rock’n’rollers, and hip-hop creators.
We Bloviate Therefore We Are
You have to go behind the billboards to understand what’s happening in America. So said the novelist Nelson Algren, who was as sharp a social critic as H.L. Mencken ever was. Seems to me that the British author A. Robert Lee would agree with Algren. But Lee has taken it upon himself to cite the billboards themselves as diagnostic proof.
Visual Culture Taking a Break
Buster Keaton has an idea about that..
Days of Judgment
Poems and Drawings That Speak for Themselves
New from Moloko Print — ‘Days of Judgment’ by Mark Terrill with drawings by Gerard Bellaart.
It Looks Like Spring Has Come, But Don’t Be Fooled
Two days of suddenly warm weather here in New York City brought a poem to mind, though it’s really too early to think about it.
Looking Back at NYC with Nostalgia and Dismay
In a newly recorded video, three noted writers look back at their experience of New York City with nostalgic affection — and, it must be said, with considerable dismay — from their vantage points in Switzerland and Germany.
Swiss Composer-Musician-Videographer Takes a Bow
They’re celebrating Steff Signer’s 75th birthday at the Palace tonight in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Paul Zelevansky’s Absurdist Tale of ‘Monkey & Man’
It began as a performance piece. That was a long time ago . . . 1985, to be precise, in Brooklyn. The author presented Individual stories as performances and installations. The texts also began appearing in little magazines.