28 SEPT 05
Recently discovered the online journal APOCRYPHALTEXT. In the current issue there are 2 terrific poems by Brandon Shimoda and Phil Cordelli, the authors of The Pines, Volume One & Two. (If you haven't yet seen and read these beautiful chapbooks, do yourself a favor. Visit the blog "Peek through the pines"--the books are a steal at $3 apiece or $5 for both.) I look forward to learning more about the The Pines in the next issue of H_NGM_N.
Received in the mail (but haven't yet had a chance to more than open) Fanny Howe's The Lives of a Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken, new from Nightboat Books. Very handsome. (And I like the way it opens, nice and wide.) "Happy was I, then, to have a childish view of G-d. Like light on my hair, it was not an encumbrance. Many affections are, no matter how passionately held. Nonetheless, for one who accepts everything, I still have a lot of trouble swallowing it." (FH)
Also in the mail: interesting short interview with Harryette Mullen in the new issue of Rain Taxi. "I'm sincere in my intention to make meaningful poetry... I imagine an audience that includes people who are not just like me." (HM)
I'm halfway through the first half of No Direction Home. (This halfway-through thing is so indicative of my general situation that it's practically a style.) Hoping to reach the second half tonight.
"I felt like I had to write that song. I did not consider myself a songwriter--at all--but I needed to write that. I needed to sing it, so that's why I needed to write it. Because it hadn't been written."
"I was born very far away from where I'm supposed to be." (BD)
And from the Einstein Random Quote Generator this morning: "The faster you go, the shorter you are." Finally, an acceptable explanation.
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