Somewhere in North Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 13 August 2017
Somewhere in North Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 13 August 2017
Somewhere in North Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 13 August 2017
Oktoberfesta #3 [Munich]: photo by Riccardo Cattaneo, 30 October 2017
Portrait [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 30 October 2017
Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 17 August 2017
Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 17 August 2017
Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 17 August 2017
Sacramento, CA: photo by Bingley0522, 1 November 2017
Frosinone, Italy, 31/10/2016: photo by Marcello Iannotta, 17 January 2017
London 2017: photo by andy kochanowski, 20 August 2017
London 2017: photo by andy kochanowski, 20 August 2017
London 2017: photo by andy kochanowski, 20 August 2017
Skull rose window chair [Dia de los Muertos, Mission Road, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 29 October 2017
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1R8A2363 [Financial District, Toronto]: photo by Johnny [Shakedown], 31 October 2017
1R8A2363 [Financial District, Toronto]: photo by Johnny [Shakedown], 31 October 2017
1R8A2363 [Financial District, Toronto]: photo by Johnny [Shakedown], 31 October 2017
Untitled [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 28 October 2017
Untitled [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 28 October 2017
Untitled [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 28 October 2017
Starlord [Atlantic Beach, Florida]: photo by Dominic Bugatto, 17 October 2014
2017 269: photo by andy kochanowski, 31 December 1969
2017 269: photo by andy kochanowski, 31 December 1969
2017 269: photo by andy kochanowski, 31 December 1969
DSC06404: photo by Francesco Luppolo, 23 October 2017
DSC06404: photo by Francesco Luppolo, 23 October 2017
DSC06404: photo by Francesco Luppolo, 23 October 2017
Observatory faucet [Griffith Park, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 27 October 2017
Fire in the sunset: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 30 October 2017
Fire in the sunset: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 30 October 2017
Fire in the sunset: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 30 October 2017
Night pump, Baldwin Hills: photo by Andrew Murr, 1 November 2017
Milano, 2017: photo by Giovanni Luppolo, 27 October 2017
Milano, 2017: photo by Giovanni Luppolo, 27 October 2017
Milano, 2017: photo by Giovanni Luppolo, 27 October 2017
People waiting to present a flower in front of the temple entrance. Khok Saman, Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 26 October 2017
People waiting to present a flower in front of the temple entrance. Khok Saman, Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 26 October 2017
People waiting to present a flower in front of the temple entrance. Khok Saman, Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 26 October 2017
DSC05357 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 10 October 2017
DSC05357 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 10 October 2017
DSC05357 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 10 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 3 October 2015
Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 3 October 2015
Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iullis, 3 October 2015
Untitled [Jerusalem]: photo by Ilan Burla, 14 April 2017
DSCF8710n1: photo by ilan Ben Yehuda, 22 October 2017
DSCF8710n1: photo by ilan Ben Yehuda, 22 October 2017
DSCF8710n1: photo by ilan Ben Yehuda, 22 October 2017
Untitled [Tel Aviv]: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 11 October 2017
Untitled: photo by STUART PATON, 23 October 2017
Untitled: photo by STUART PATON, 23 October 2017
Untitled: photo by STUART PATON, 23 October 2017
Le petit boxeur: photo by Julie Hrudova, 6 October 2017
Le petit boxeur: photo by Julie Hrudova, 6 October 2017
Le petit boxeur: photo by Julie Hrudova, 6 October 2017
Rusty Pipes [NYC]: photo by JUSTIN Vogel, 2 July 2013
The weather this time of year [Seattle]: photo by Jeff Turner, 10 October 2016
The weather this time of year [Seattle]: photo by Jeff Turner, 10 October 2016
The weather this time of year [Seattle]: photo by Jeff Turner, 10 October 2016
Air [Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 22 October 2017
Abington Street [Northampton]: photo by Andy Feltham, 22 October 2017
Abington Street [Northampton]: photo by Andy Feltham, 22 October 2017
Abington Street [Northampton]: photo by Andy Feltham, 22 October 2017
Levitation: photo by Ben, 17 April 2016
#18 [London]: photo by Danielle Houghton, 28 October 2017
Political Altar - Dia de Los Muertos. One of many altars that had a political message, We All Belong Here, We Will Defend Each Other. [Hollywood Studio District, Los Angeles]: photo by joey zanotti, 28 October 2017
Political Altar - Dia de Los Muertos. One of many altars that had a political message, We All Belong Here, We Will Defend Each Other. [Hollywood Studio District, Los Angeles]: photo by joey zanotti, 28 October 2017
Political Altar - Dia de Los Muertos. One of many altars that had a political message, We All Belong Here, We Will Defend Each Other. [Hollywood Studio District, Los Angeles]: photo by joey zanotti, 28 October 2017
Mictlantecuhtli en la city... CDMX 2017... [Mexico City]: photo by Fermin Guzman, 31 October 2017
Mictlantecuhtli en la city... CDMX 2017... [Mexico City]: photo by Fermin Guzman, 31 October 2017
Mictlantecuhtli en la city... CDMX 2017... [Mexico City]: photo by Fermin Guzman, 31 October 2017
Chimalhuacán, EDOMEX 2017...: photo by Fermin Guzman, 29 October 2017
Chimalhuacán, EDOMEX 2017...: photo by Fermin Guzman, 29 October 2017
Chimalhuacán, EDOMEX 2017...: photo by Fermin Guzman, 29 October 2017
Untitled [Marina Beach, Chennai]: photo by Naveen Jamal, 26 October 2007
A man stands on a boat, which capsized with a group of Rohingya refugees at Bailakhali, near Cox's Bazar REUTERS Photo @hannahmckay88: image via Reuters Paris Pix @ReutersParisPix, 31 October 2017
Photographers help a Rohingya woman as refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar cross the Naf River into Bangladesh: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 November 2017
Rohingya refugees cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar in the dark of night Photo @hannahmckay88: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 November 2017
Muslim
man prays for peace in ceremony for unity in country seared by
ethnically-charged violence against the Muslim Rohingya @ye_aung_thu:
image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 31 October 2017
a kid in a white sheet wearing a MAGA hat would have been too on-the-nose: image via MATT HAUGHEY @mathowie, 31 October 2017
I’m
going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight and give it to some kid who
sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism.: image via Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldTrumpJr, 31 October 2017
Former VP Joe Biden referring to Pres. Donald Trump today during a speech in Chicago “Its time to grow up”. #gettyimagesnews: image via scott olson @olsongetty, 1 November 2017
Guy sitting in the back row of breakout session at #obamasummit looks sort of familiar: image via Karen Tumulty @ktumulty, 1 November 2017
Today we released nearly 470,000 files recovered in 2011 raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: image via CIA @CIA, 1 November 2017
ICYMI A Day in the Life of a CIA Cyber Threat Analyst: image via CIA @CIA, 1 November 2017
Muslims are out in full force at the scene of the NYC #ISIS attack today rubbing it in everyone's face. Aimlessly walking around in hijabs. - at 200 Chambers Street: image via Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer, 1 November 2017
Just look at them walking around, living their lives, pretending the US has freedom of religion. How fucking dare they.: image via shauna @goldengateblond, 1 November 2017
Several blocks away from the rally, walking down the street, they were chanting “hey hey ho ho Donald Trump has got to go”: image via Maura quint @behindyourback, 1 November 2017
Several blocks away from the rally, walking down the street, they were chanting “hey hey ho ho Donald Trump has got to go”: image via Maura quint @behindyourback, 1 November 2017
Scene from last night in NYC as heavily armed police guard people watching the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. | Photo @AndresKudacki: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 1 November 2017
Ezra Pound: Canto CXIII: preparation for sky burial
Vultures flock overhead as ethnic Tibetans gather for a sky burial near the Larung valley, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. Relatives and onlookers gather for sky burials in which bodies of deceased people are offered to vultures. Such burials are practiced by some Tibetans and Mongolians in China as an extreme type of Buddhist “self-sacrifice almsgiving”. It is believed that feeding vultures with decomposed corpses of relatives on top of a mountain is a respectful way to pay tribute to passed-away beloved ones: photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 3 November 2015
Thru the 12 Houses of Heaven
seeing the just and the unjust,
tasting the sweet and the sorry,
Pater Helios turning.
“Mortal praise has no sound in her ears”
(Fortuna’s)
θρήνος
And who no longer make gods out of beauty
θρήνος this is a dying
Yet to walk with Mozart, Agassiz and Linnaeus
‘neath overhanging air under sun-beat
Here take thy mind’s space
And to this garden, Marcella, ever seeking by petal, by leaf-vein
out of dark, and toward half-light
And over Li Chiang, the snow range is turquoise
Rock’s world that he saved us for memory
a thin trace in high air
And with them Paré (Ambroise) and the Men against Death
Twedell, Donnelly,
old Pumpelly crossed Gobi
“no horse, no dog, and no goat.”
“I’d eat his liver, told that son of...
and now bigod I have done it”
17 Maggio,
why not spirits?
But for the sun and serenitas
(19th May ’59)
H.D. once said “serenitas"
(Atthis, etc.)
at Dieudonné’s
in pre-history.
No dog, no horse, and no goat,
The long flank, the firm breast
and to know beauty and death and despair
and to think that what has been shall be,
flowing, ever unstill.
Then a partridge-shaped cloud over dust storm.
The hells move in cycles,
No man can see his own end.
The Gods have not returned. “They have never left us.”
They have not returned.
Cloud’s processional and the air moves with their living.
Pride, jealousy and possessiveness
3 pains of hell
and a clear wind over garofani
over Portofino 3 lights in triangulation
Or apples from Hesperides fall in their lap
from phantom trees.
The old Countess remembered (say 1928)
that ball in St. Petersburg
and as to how Stef got out of Poland...
Sir Ian told ‘em help
would come via the sea
(the black one, the Black Sea)
Pétain warned ‘em.
And the road under apple-boughs
mostly grass-covered
And the olives to windward
Kalenda Maja.
Li Sao, Li Sao, for sorrow
but there is something intelligent in the cherry-stone
Canals, bridges, and house walls
orange in sunlight
But to hitch sensibility to efficiency:
grass versus granite,
For the little light and more harmony
Oh God of all men, none excluded
and howls for Schwundgeld in the Convention
(our Constitutional
17...whichwhat)
Nothing new but their ignorance,
ever perennial
Parsley used in the sacrifice
and (calling Paul Peter) 12%
does not mean one, oh, four, 104%
Error of chaos. Justification is from kindness of heart
and from her hands floweth mercy.
As for who demand belief rather than justice.
And the host of Egypt, the pyramid builder,
waiting there to be born.
No more the pseudo-gothic sprawled house
out over the bridge there
(Washington Bridge, N.Y.C.)
but everything boxed for economy.
That the body is inside the soul --
the lifting and folding brightness
the darkness shattered,
the fragment,
That Yeats noted the symbol over that portico
(Paris)
And the bull by the force that is in him --
not lord of it,
mastered.
And to know interest from usura
(Sac. Cairoli, prezzo giusto)
In this sphere is Giustizia.
In mountain air the grass frozen emerald
and with the mind set on that light
saffron, emerald,
seeping.
“but that kind of ignorance” said the old priest to Yeats
(in a railway train) “is spreading every day from the schools” --
to say nothing of other varieties.
Article X for example -- put over, and 100 years to get back
to the awareness of
(what’s his name in that Convention)
And in thy mind beauty,
O Artemis.
As to sin, they invented it -- eh?
to implement domination
eh? largely.
There remain grumpiness,
malvagità
Sea, over roofs, but still the sea and headland.
And in every woman, somewhere in the snarl is a tenderness.
A blue light under stars.
The ruined orchards, trees rotting. Empty frames at Limone.
And for a little magnanimity somewhere,
And to know the share from the charge
(scala altrui)
God’s eye art ‘ou, do not surrender perception.
And in thy mind beauty, O Artemis
Daphne afoot in vain speed.
When the Syrian onyx is broken.
Out of dark, thou, Father Helios, leadest,
but the mind as Ixion, unstill, ever turning.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972: Canto CXIII, May 1959
Vultures flock overhead as ethnic Tibetans gather for a sky burial near the
Larung valley, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province.
Relatives and onlookers gather for sky burials in which bodies of
deceased people are offered to vultures. Such burials are practiced by
some Tibetans and Mongolian in China as an extreme type of Buddhist’s
“self-sacrifice almsgiving”. It is believed that feeding vultures with
decomposed corpse of relatives on top of a mountain is a respectful to
pay tribute to their passed-away beloved ones: photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 3 November 2015
Vultures in Africa and Europe could face extinction within our lifetime, conservationists have warned. Veterinary drug diclofenac that wiped out 99% of vultures in India, Pakistan and Nepal, has been commercially available in at least two European countries. And in Africa they are facing increasing threats mainly due to poisoning.: photo by Ramon Elosegui/BirdLife International, 12 September 2014
Beautiful Egyptian #Vulture in #Greece. Thanks to @Birdwingeu for photo: image via WildHils @WildHils, 29 October 2015
Aerial view of Turkey Vulture gliding over forested area, Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Texas: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 12 April 2008
CONSERVATION: 11 of #Africa's #Vulture species are flying towards extinction @Ken_Birdlife: image via Wako Joel @WajoJoel, 29 October 2015
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), beak sideview: photo by Thermos, 2006
Traditional Tibetan Sky Burial in which vultures pick clean the bones of the dead: photo by Alistair Coombs via Ancient Origins. 27 October 2015
The Vulture Stone, Göbekli Tepe archeological site, southeast Turkey. The vulture pictogram is one of the most graphically charged and complex reliefs so far excavated at the site. Müslüm Ercan describes the scene as a sky burial, in which the ‘soul’, sometimes symbolized as a head, is figuratively carried up to the sky world.: photo by Alistair Coombs via Ancient Origins, 27 October 2015
In Rock's World: A lovers' sky burial
Panel from Naxi pictographic manuscript containing myths detailing Sacrifices to the Highest Deity (lovers' suicide ritual): [Yunnan Sheng][1500?-1934]; transliteration and translation by Joseph F. Rock (Naxi Collection, Asian Division, Library of Congress)
And over Li Chiang, the snow range is turquoise. Yulong Xueshan on the left, rising above Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China: photo by ZiCheng Xu, 28 December 2006
House where Joseph Rock lived in old Lijiang, Yunnan, China: photographer unknown, 29 July 1998, from Joseph Rock's Images, Harvard University
Rock's World that he saved us for memory / a thin trace in high air: Joseph F. Rock with some of his Naxi assistants: photographer unknown, 14 November 1928, from Joseph Rock's Images, Harvard University
Cloud's processional and the air moves with their living: The backbone of the Min Shan Range, Gansu, China: photo by Joseph F. Rock, 18 October 1926, from Joseph Rock's Images, Harvard University
Cloud's processional and the air moves with their living: The Snow Peaks of the Liang-chow Nan Shan, Gansu, China: photo by Joseph F. Rock, 11 November 1925, from Joseph Rock's Images, Harvard University
Cloud's processional and the air moves with their living: The Ta-pan Shan Range, Gansu, China: photo by Joseph F. Rock, 9 October 1925, from Joseph Rock's Images, Harvard University
And over Li Chiang, the snow range is turquoise: Lijiang Snow Mountain summit, Yunnan, China: photo by Corymgrenier, 22 October 2009
3 comments:
TC,
Weekend past did receive from my dutiful daughter a pristine copy of Poetry Wars for my 65th b'day. But with it came news that my best friend Doug Pippin(UM'73) had passed. He was half of the duo that requested "Bill Lee" at your legendary St. Mark's reading (your postcard to me reads, "No one has ever asked for Bill Lee before!") The other half, occasional contributor here, Bruce Shlain(UM'74), made the call to me and we'll be flying together tomorrow night to NY for DP's memorial. btw, Bruce was in Boulder during the war period researching "Acid Dreams" interviewing AG, Burroughs, et al and even found time to sit-in on Dorn's classes. ED was Doug's favorite poet period. Sorry to hijack your blog, but wanted you to know I'm bringing along gift PWars and my copy of Baseball Poems. I think they'll manage to somehow make their way into our joint salute of our own personal Ezra Pound. Your glimpse of Ez's Stairway to Heaven made this post impossible to avoid. Thanks for listening, Tom. kent
Kent,
A sad day at the bagel factory cafe, very sorry to hear about dp's passing.
On the other flipper, congrats on becoming a Senior. Or possibly, commiseration?
No longer recall 65, but and still moreover therefore it must have been a very good year. (Any year one survives pretty much qualifies.)
Let us not get ahead of ourselves however.
Hope your daughter will speak to you again.
But who will go and bake the bagels in the bleak dawn, with you absent, I esk ya?
Kate Upton?!
TC,
Sorry, I hadn't seen this till this pm. As you now know Kate had to split on the being my replacement gig for some wedding in Italy. Why not just grab a pizza here?
Anyway, Bruce & I felt like celebrities sharing stories with the loving crowd in our faux Detroit swagger. Tales of A2 lore. One-and-only distinctions like his playing hoops against both Spencer Haywood (high school) and John Sayles (80sNYC). B&D's trip to Cooperstown where Bruce signed and handed over to HOF curator his tome on baseball's craziest characters, "Oddballs," to which DP chides, "You're now in the Hall of Fame."
Finished my tribute, "Required reading list? Doug's demand I reconsider the experimental American poet, Tom Clark, and somehow find his new one on baseball, FAN POEMS." I concluded with your conclusion, "The Great One." Not a dry eye in sight.
If I ever make it back to your acres, I'll find you. Lunch on me.
k
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