NOTES

It Never Entered My Mind Miles Davis Quintet Radio Broadcasts (1955)
Cadenza II John Ogdon Opus Clavicembalisticum (Sorabji)
Solar Passage David S. Ware QuartetCryptology
Volo Vivace Tuxedomoon Half Mute / Scream With A View
Hop, Skip And Jump Coleman Hawkins & Johnny Hodges The Vogue Recordings
La Vie En Rose Madeleine Peyroux Dreamland
Direct download: podfall.mp3

This morning an uncorrected proof copy of Kenneth Koch’s Collected Poems (almost 800 pages) reminded me of the pleasure finding his work gave me back in the early 1960s. I remember even using a line of his, and looking back from this distance I detect rhythms and points of view that went into my mulch.

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, Knopf, November 2005, $40

The North Side, at noon on August 18th. 2005

From Nate Dorward’s website you can also get to his archived music reviews and his weblog: worth a visit.

Steve Emerson, one of my favourite prose-writers (check, if you can find copies, Neighbors and The Wife ) is toying with a website that’s to my taste: fast, elegant, simple, interesting and amusing.

I’ve added a link to Tony Trehy in the sidebar because I like him and think what he’s trying to do is worthwhile and interesting. Who else will bring Bob Grenier to England?

a walk through

I know Flood Editions is listed in the links, but a packet I just opened jogs me to make a more visible and personal recommendation.

Flood has only been publishing for four years and has a list of perhaps twenty books. Like those in this morning’s packet some are new (Merrill Gilfillan’s Undanceable ), some welcome republications (Ronald Johnson’s Radi os ); but all are well-designed and produced with an attention to detail rare these days.

Please look / and buy a book.

The same stroll around Cambridge

but with different people

Jonathan Williams’s New & Selected Poems: JUBILANT THICKET (Copper Canyon Press)
Portrait of JW by Guy Davenport, lifted from Jargon Books

Play from the sidebar as usual: or download mp3 below

It Never Entered My Mind Johnny Smith
Smells Like Teen Spirit Paul Anka
Such Great Heights The Postal Service
Quanto Tempo Derek Bailey & Cyro Baptista
Love WIll Tear Us Apart Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha
Nostalgia Readers Wives
Direct download: mixed.mp3

Michael Horovitz writes:

Poetry Olympics Twenty05 – Sunday 25th September

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A mother speaks directly to The Joker (Cindy Sheehan Gold Star Families for Peace). Anyone home at the ranch?

This is a small fast-stream movie

Joy Laurence died, peacefully, at 4.50 this afternoon in hospital in London. Fast-acting cancer. She leaves three daughters and many friends. I’d like to remember her here at a happier time…. just twelve months ago.

including Florence at eight months

Some of it today

of the day to Anne-Marie Albiach.

To mark it, here is STRATA from Mezza Voce (Flammarion, 1984) translated by Joseph Simas, as it appeared in infolio 13 on July 17th. 1986.

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This morning

Friday lunchtime in Cambridge

Dub Will Tear Us Apart Jah Division
Too Much Sugar Henry Threadgill
It Never Entered My Mind Nancy Wilson
Jitney Number 2 Cecil Taylor
Anthrax Gang of Four
Song Thrush

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Direct download: august4.mp3

Some photos of lunch today with John Higgins, Phili and Thomas

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Some photographs of the weekend at Bore Place