"Medium" back tonight at 10...

Isola di Rifiuti reads reads Scroggins, Zukofsky & Einstein--

"What has been overlooked . . . is the irrational, the inconsistent, the droll, even the insane, which nature, inexhaustible operative, implants in an individual, seemingly for her own amusement. But these things are singled out only in the crucible of one’s own mind. This is as it should be. For, otherwise how could the isolation of distance be approximated?"

the new onedit has complete books by Miles Champion, Elieni Sikelianos, Khaled Hakim and (above) Stephen Rodefer & (click on image!) Harry Gilonis/Erica van Horn...

Vinyl Sleeve Heads

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Nonist has a bunch of interesting bookbinding=related links up...

from Stravinsky/Auden's
"Rake's Progress" here's the great Dawn Upshaw singing "No Word From Tom"...

nice set of gently supernatural movies on TCM tonight derived from the writings of Thorne Smith including Constance Bennett & Cary Grant in both "Topper" films & Veronica Lake in Rene Clair's "I Married a Witch"...

(US TCM only for some reason alas)

good review of the new Robert Creeley Selected--

"Dante's verses took for granted a practical knowledge of falconry; Sidney's a practical knowledge of dressage. Creeley's work, in turn, involves a fundamental experience of modernity--more often than not, someone else is driving the machine in which we're riding. He is the poet laureate of the back seat, that place of erotic encounter and unacknowledged legislation..."

YouTube - The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges 70's

a mess of great links here--Festival of the Trees, #19

Local trees