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long and living
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word to the
city's streets and
universities,
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d.a.levy &
| the mi me ogr ap h rev olu tio n ed s. La rry Sm ith an d Ing rid Sw an ber g |
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movingly, the particularity of
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"This anthology, Evensong, is a celebration of the rich spiritual tapestry that is contemporary American religious
experience. If this book is flawed recall that to be spiritual is to have faith even when one doubts, to see the flaws yet find
belief. "When I write poetry, I try to give myself over to the sublime, to that which is great within, to that which knows what I
don’t know I know. When I participate in the writing life, I try to be giving to that which has given to me. And, let’s face it,
being a poet in America sometimes feels like taking a vow of poverty! But it also provides a community of others who share
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moment. "Please consider this anthology a meeting house: not everyone has shown up to services, but they’re all here in
spirit."
from "Introduction" by Gerry LaFemina
experience. If this book is flawed recall that to be spiritual is to have faith even when one doubts, to see the flaws yet find
belief. "When I write poetry, I try to give myself over to the sublime, to that which is great within, to that which knows what I
don’t know I know. When I participate in the writing life, I try to be giving to that which has given to me. And, let’s face it,
being a poet in America sometimes feels like taking a vow of poverty! But it also provides a community of others who share
a belief in the power of poetry to be redemptive, to change the moral, emotional or spiritual landscapes if only for a brief
moment. "Please consider this anthology a meeting house: not everyone has shown up to services, but they’re all here in
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from "Introduction" by Gerry LaFemina
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the police…What Tom Kryss does, more than any poet I know, is
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political activist Ed Sanders remembers d.a.levy and the
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chronicle of those times of underground publishing,
coffeehouse readings, and clashes with the authorities.
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a.levy: “d.a. levy/ the chaff of / genius/ blown/ up
above/harsh Cleveland./ It may take centuries/ to sort
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the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution and intimate friends of
the poet reads from a d.a.levy poem and shares memories of
the poet and the late 1960s era. levyfest was held at Cleveland
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Center, CSU Special Collections, Deepcleveland.com.,
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Production by The Camera Guy Video Productions,
Sandusky, Ohio. *Some poems contain explicit language.
Kryss, D.R. Wagner, Kent Taylor, Ingrid Swanberg, George
Fitzpartick, rjs (via taped interview). Each of these members of
the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution and intimate friends of
the poet reads from a d.a.levy poem and shares memories of
the poet and the late 1960s era. levyfest was held at Cleveland
State University, Oct. 29, 2005, co-sponsored by CSU Poetry
Center, CSU Special Collections, Deepcleveland.com.,
Bottom Dog Press, and the Ohio Humanities Council. 65 mins
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America Zen
A
Gathering
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Eds. Ray
McNiece
& Larry
Smith
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Gathering
of Poets
Eds. Ray
McNiece
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Smith
An
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Collection
With
Photo,
Biographic
al Sketch,
Zen
Statement,
and
Poems
Introducti
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Editors
Thirty
Poets:
* Nin Andrews * David Budbill * Thomas
Rain Crowe * Kathe Davis * Diane di
Prima * Stanford M. Forrester * Tess
Gallagher * Margaret Gibson * John
Gilgun * Netta Gillespie * Sam Hamill *
William Heyen * Jane Hirshfield * Holly
Hughes Mary Sue Koeppel * Mark
Kuhar * Mac Lojowsky * Ray McNiece
* Tom Montag *Shin Yu Pai * Paul S.
Piper * Maj Ragain * David Ray * Seido
Ray Ronci * Andrew Schelling * Paul
Skyrm * Larry Smith * Tony Trigilio *
Chase Twichell * Anne Waldman
Rain Crowe * Kathe Davis * Diane di
Prima * Stanford M. Forrester * Tess
Gallagher * Margaret Gibson * John
Gilgun * Netta Gillespie * Sam Hamill *
William Heyen * Jane Hirshfield * Holly
Hughes Mary Sue Koeppel * Mark
Kuhar * Mac Lojowsky * Ray McNiece
* Tom Montag *Shin Yu Pai * Paul S.
Piper * Maj Ragain * David Ray * Seido
Ray Ronci * Andrew Schelling * Paul
Skyrm * Larry Smith * Tony Trigilio *
Chase Twichell * Anne Waldman
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America Zen: A Gathering of Poets (Bottom Dog Press, 2004) features the work
of thirty Zen-inspired poets, from veterans Seido Ray Ronci, Jane Hirshfield and
Andrew Schelling to newer faces on the scene, such as Shin Yu Pai and Paul Skyrm.
Editors Larry Smith and Ray McNiece include a selection of four or five poems by
each contributor, a biographical sketch and a personal statement from the author about
his or her relationship to Zen Practice. The poems, with titles like “on the galloping
cusp of the new now” and “Old Monks Drinking” are evocative and witty, often filled
with a sense of the poignancy and sensuality of the present moment. The introduction
provides a brief overview of Zen Buddhism in America and describes the American
Zen poetry as a movement of poets—beginning with the Beats—who experimented
with a Japanese aesthetic and were inspired by Buddhist truths.
– Holly Gayley, in Buddhadharma (winter 2004).
of thirty Zen-inspired poets, from veterans Seido Ray Ronci, Jane Hirshfield and
Andrew Schelling to newer faces on the scene, such as Shin Yu Pai and Paul Skyrm.
Editors Larry Smith and Ray McNiece include a selection of four or five poems by
each contributor, a biographical sketch and a personal statement from the author about
his or her relationship to Zen Practice. The poems, with titles like “on the galloping
cusp of the new now” and “Old Monks Drinking” are evocative and witty, often filled
with a sense of the poignancy and sensuality of the present moment. The introduction
provides a brief overview of Zen Buddhism in America and describes the American
Zen poetry as a movement of poets—beginning with the Beats—who experimented
with a Japanese aesthetic and were inspired by Buddhist truths.
– Holly Gayley, in Buddhadharma (winter 2004).
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Poems by: Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost,Gertrude Stein, Louise Bogan, Frank O’Hara,
Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, James Wright,William Carlos Williams, Maggie Anderson, Susan Kelly-
DeWitt, Susan Azar Porterfield, Susan Jelus, Karen Rigby, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Flanagan, Thom
Tammaro,Terry Kirts, Edmund Conti, Gabriel Welsch, Barbara Crooker, David Lee Garrison, Ingrid Wendt,
Lynn Powell, Lois Beebe Hayna, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Carolyn Forché, Cathy Lentes, Ayelet Amittay, Gail
Bellamy, Kevin Prufer, Susan Terris, Susan McGowan, Sarah Kennedy, Stuart Lishan, Li-Young Lee, Wendy
Bishop, Grey Held, Grace Butcher, Susan Grimm, Lynn Powell, Ann Stanford, Steve Wilson, Don Bogen,
Robert Hass, Deanna Pickard, Hershman, Kathrine Varnes, Julia Levine, Wendell Berry, Ann Townsend,
Pattiann Rogers, Allen Braden, Imogene Bolls, Mark Doty, F. Richard Thomas, Jonathan Andersen, James
Cummins, Kay Sloan, William Heyen, Myrna Stone, Charles Simic, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Jim Heynan, David
Hassler, Annie Finch, W.S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Vivian Shipley, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Rebecca McClanahan,
Gerald Stern, Michael Waters, Pamela Uschuk, John Logan, Diane Wakoski, Erica Jong, Natasha Sajé, Larry
Smith, Judith Strasser, Joyce Sutphen, David Starkey, Betty Greenway, Karen Kovacik, Kathy Fagan, Paola
Corso, Jared Carter, Bonnie Jacobson, Robert Brimm, Tara Miller, Ira Sadoff, Robert Fox, Jane Hirschfield,
Billy Collins, Christopher Merrill, Terry Hermsen, Jeff Gundy, William Greenway, Nan Arbuckle, Collette Inez,
Francis Smith, Frank Polite, Patti Capel Swartz, Cyril Dostal, Martha Silano, Colleen J. McElroy, Daryl Ngee
Chinn, Elton Glaser, Daniel Lusk, Willis Barnstone, Richard Hague, David Petreman, David Citino, Herbert
Martin, Andrew Hudgins, Clarinda Harris, Maggie Jaffe, Susan Rich, Eugene Gloria, David Baker, Ralph
Black, Cathryn Essinger, Charlene Fix, Linda Kittell
Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, James Wright,William Carlos Williams, Maggie Anderson, Susan Kelly-
DeWitt, Susan Azar Porterfield, Susan Jelus, Karen Rigby, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Flanagan, Thom
Tammaro,Terry Kirts, Edmund Conti, Gabriel Welsch, Barbara Crooker, David Lee Garrison, Ingrid Wendt,
Lynn Powell, Lois Beebe Hayna, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Carolyn Forché, Cathy Lentes, Ayelet Amittay, Gail
Bellamy, Kevin Prufer, Susan Terris, Susan McGowan, Sarah Kennedy, Stuart Lishan, Li-Young Lee, Wendy
Bishop, Grey Held, Grace Butcher, Susan Grimm, Lynn Powell, Ann Stanford, Steve Wilson, Don Bogen,
Robert Hass, Deanna Pickard, Hershman, Kathrine Varnes, Julia Levine, Wendell Berry, Ann Townsend,
Pattiann Rogers, Allen Braden, Imogene Bolls, Mark Doty, F. Richard Thomas, Jonathan Andersen, James
Cummins, Kay Sloan, William Heyen, Myrna Stone, Charles Simic, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Jim Heynan, David
Hassler, Annie Finch, W.S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Vivian Shipley, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Rebecca McClanahan,
Gerald Stern, Michael Waters, Pamela Uschuk, John Logan, Diane Wakoski, Erica Jong, Natasha Sajé, Larry
Smith, Judith Strasser, Joyce Sutphen, David Starkey, Betty Greenway, Karen Kovacik, Kathy Fagan, Paola
Corso, Jared Carter, Bonnie Jacobson, Robert Brimm, Tara Miller, Ira Sadoff, Robert Fox, Jane Hirschfield,
Billy Collins, Christopher Merrill, Terry Hermsen, Jeff Gundy, William Greenway, Nan Arbuckle, Collette Inez,
Francis Smith, Frank Polite, Patti Capel Swartz, Cyril Dostal, Martha Silano, Colleen J. McElroy, Daryl Ngee
Chinn, Elton Glaser, Daniel Lusk, Willis Barnstone, Richard Hague, David Petreman, David Citino, Herbert
Martin, Andrew Hudgins, Clarinda Harris, Maggie Jaffe, Susan Rich, Eugene Gloria, David Baker, Ralph
Black, Cathryn Essinger, Charlene Fix, Linda Kittell
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| “Ra y McN iece is a born poet and born perfo rmer .... Ray has man y spar ks to shar e with thos e longi ng for that fire.” - Yevg eny Yevt ushe nko, Poet- Laur ete of Russ ia |
| “From Venice, Italy to Venice, California, there’s one poet who dares control the road — Ray McNeice puts pedal to metal, ink to papyrus, mouth to ear. In the Super Heroes of Poetry, he’s Power Man, able to blast meaning at unsuspecting audiences from around the corner and around the globe. Heed him!” -Bob Holman Ray McNiece Homepage Harmony Series ISBN 0-933087-85-3 124 pgs. $12.00 |
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| Als o Ava ilabl e thro ugh Bot tom Do g Pre ss Poe ms by Lar ry Smi th |
| 23 2 pag es $2 0 A Wo rdT ech Edi tion |
Larry Smith’s A
River Remains
embodies the
waterway of its title:
in these poems the
world is at once
evanescent and
permanent, always
changing,
yet always there. A
collection of large
scope built mostly
from brief lyrics,
narratives and
meditations, it
stands as the most
compelling work
from an already
distinguished career.
Published by
WordTech
Communications.
River Remains
embodies the
waterway of its title:
in these poems the
world is at once
evanescent and
permanent, always
changing,
yet always there. A
collection of large
scope built mostly
from brief lyrics,
narratives and
meditations, it
stands as the most
compelling work
from an already
distinguished career.
Published by
WordTech
Communications.
"A River Remains is Larry Smith's most
ambitious book, and his most rewarding; I
suspect readers will develop loyalties to
particular sections of the book and return to
the poems in those sections again and again.
Those new to Smith's work will discover the
talent, skill, and insight of one of the wise
elders of Ohio's poetic tribe, and those who
know, and have known, Smith's work will
recognize this for wat it is--his finest book
yet." Robert Miltner, Ohioana Quarterly
(January 2007)
ambitious book, and his most rewarding; I
suspect readers will develop loyalties to
particular sections of the book and return to
the poems in those sections again and again.
Those new to Smith's work will discover the
talent, skill, and insight of one of the wise
elders of Ohio's poetic tribe, and those who
know, and have known, Smith's work will
recognize this for wat it is--his finest book
yet." Robert Miltner, Ohioana Quarterly
(January 2007)
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"Brooke Horvath is a cosmologist
of moments, one who maps the
meteor showers in the night sky and
also in a child's unguarded eye.
Upon his maps, we may read the
farewell greeting of all things real
and near, imagined and far: 'nothing
is ever wasted/although nothing
lasts.' If these poems were not so
beautifully made, they'd be the end
of the world. Thank heaven, they
are."
-Donald Revell, author of
Pennyweight Windows: Selected
Poems
of moments, one who maps the
meteor showers in the night sky and
also in a child's unguarded eye.
Upon his maps, we may read the
farewell greeting of all things real
and near, imagined and far: 'nothing
is ever wasted/although nothing
lasts.' If these poems were not so
beautifully made, they'd be the end
of the world. Thank heaven, they
are."
-Donald Revell, author of
Pennyweight Windows: Selected
Poems
“Through the opening poems of loss and anguish, to the
final more objective pieces where ‘the moon [still]
gladdens. . .in a sin-sick world,’ Brooke Horvath leads
us by his frayed yet resilient hope. Separation, lost
love, a difficult fatherhood, death behind him and
ahead, here's a man standing in his suburban garden
who plants only what ‘does its growing underground’
because he needs to know possibility does exist, if
only ‘beneath me / fretfully, unseen.’ The collection is
deeply felt. The ‘Shoshaku Jushaku’ series is simply
wonderful!" -Alice Friman, author of Inverted Fire
final more objective pieces where ‘the moon [still]
gladdens. . .in a sin-sick world,’ Brooke Horvath leads
us by his frayed yet resilient hope. Separation, lost
love, a difficult fatherhood, death behind him and
ahead, here's a man standing in his suburban garden
who plants only what ‘does its growing underground’
because he needs to know possibility does exist, if
only ‘beneath me / fretfully, unseen.’ The collection is
deeply felt. The ‘Shoshaku Jushaku’ series is simply
wonderful!" -Alice Friman, author of Inverted Fire
"Lecture on Dust is in good
part an exploration of the
triumph of love and
companionship, but it’s much
more than ‘All you need
is.....’ ‘What the hell’s the
deal with serenity anyway?’
the poet exclaims in his
extended work, ‘Shoshaku
Jushaku.’ Indeed, what’s the
deal? The deal is that poetry
is the ultimate exploration.”
-Ed Sanders, author of The
Family and Tales of Beatnik
Glory
part an exploration of the
triumph of love and
companionship, but it’s much
more than ‘All you need
is.....’ ‘What the hell’s the
deal with serenity anyway?’
the poet exclaims in his
extended work, ‘Shoshaku
Jushaku.’ Indeed, what’s the
deal? The deal is that poetry
is the ultimate exploration.”
-Ed Sanders, author of The
Family and Tales of Beatnik
Glory
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