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Jim’s 2023 Year in Books
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Jim Coughenour
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Sexton occupies a unique moment in American poetry. I read her mostly in the 70s and 80s. Her dark poems were a high-wire act, a feminist version of t
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I'm puzzling my way through Life: A User's Manual. I rate my chances of finishing about equal to the fate of his characters.
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"Nelson aims to confess; such occurs along a route littered with heady citations. This was likely more successful than The Argonauts, perhaps as burdensome memory was of a lost lover, this is merged with the fate of another friend, one paralyzed and i"
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“George, fix those kids a drink.” My favorite line in the play (garbled no doubt in memory). This book was a gift, not something I’d have picked up for myself – so a double surprise in a way. I enjoyed it throughout. Details about the reclusive Edward ...more |
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“If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-historical authority agrees about that.”
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“Pessimism all along the line. Absolutely. Mistrust in the fate of literature, mistrust in the fate of freedom, mistrust in the fate of European humanity, but three times mistrust in all reconciliation: between classes, between nations, between individuals. And unlimited trust only in IG Farben and the peaceful perfecting of the air force. But what now? What next?”
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“That was a pretty one, I heard you call
From the unsatisfactory hall
To the unsatisfactory room where I
Played record after record, idly,
Wasting my time at home, that you
Looked so much forward to.
Oliver's Riverside Blues, it was. And now
I shall, I suppose, always remember how
The flock of notes those antique Negroes blew
Our of Chicago air into
A huge remembering pre-electric horn
The year after I was born
Three decades later made this sudden bridge
From your unsatisfactory age
To my unsatisfactory prime.
Truly, though our element is time,
We're not suited to the long perspectives
Open at each instant of our lives.
They link us to our losses: worse,
They show us what we have as it once was,
Blindingly undiminished, just as though
By acting differently we could have kept it so.
- Reference Back”
― The Complete Poems
From the unsatisfactory hall
To the unsatisfactory room where I
Played record after record, idly,
Wasting my time at home, that you
Looked so much forward to.
Oliver's Riverside Blues, it was. And now
I shall, I suppose, always remember how
The flock of notes those antique Negroes blew
Our of Chicago air into
A huge remembering pre-electric horn
The year after I was born
Three decades later made this sudden bridge
From your unsatisfactory age
To my unsatisfactory prime.
Truly, though our element is time,
We're not suited to the long perspectives
Open at each instant of our lives.
They link us to our losses: worse,
They show us what we have as it once was,
Blindingly undiminished, just as though
By acting differently we could have kept it so.
- Reference Back”
― The Complete Poems
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Happy New Year, Jim!
Dear Jim,Actually I just "friended" you as a way to communicate to you that if you wish to remain on my "Bureau of Public Secrets" mailing list you need to send me your current email address -- the old one no longer seems to work.
Ken Knabb
knabb AT bopsecrets DOT org
Move over Mescaline, Bolaño's going to get that vibe for you. I don't know where you're starting with him, it doesn't matter, his genius is splattered across his books & poems & fictional memoirs like a plane disaster. Dig around anywhere & you'll get a jolt of pure Roberto.Sometimes even in most prosaic sentence is something astonishing, ominous, soul-chilling. But throughout its his physical mind making love on the page, suffering rejection, suicide attempts, travesties beyond charting. Let him have his way with you.In the meantime, if you need to detour from the eminent profane to scabrous comedy that will make you scrub your sticky hands and check your bedclothes, check out Dirty Havana Trilogies by Pedro Juan Gutierrez. As soon as you've read the first 3 pages you'll either be grooving or gag. "Sex isn't for the squeamish," Pedro Juan cautions, and proceeds to prove his point and little else. Appalling. Makes me want to wander the warm wet winds of El Malecón Habanero all night with my zipper half down, drenched with seaspray, heady with some caramel kiss.
Hi Ed, I look forward to catching up on your list. Right now I'm distracted by the upcoming election - which, happily, will soon be over.
Thank you for the friends add, Jim. Much success and good reads to you. Have a great week.Ed Lynskey
Author, PELHAM FELL HERE
