Gary Snyder speaks, poet via video link
+ Poetic Convo & Reading w/ hero Gary Snyder + Legendary poet and naturalist and my personal hero, Gary Snyder […]
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Collections of Artifacts, Records
Items in kura, inventoried: (scrapbook poetry, letters, wallets, records, map)
Rare hang out out in the kura barn (while wife’s band rehearses inside so a bit too much commotion for me) So instead, I’m putting away books and *trying to* tidy up stacks of scrapbook materials, ephemera, maps, passports, other treats / so much goodness! But first need space on the Workbench
What follows are artifacts, mildly documented, in situ, with brief annotations:
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Writing Life
My Dharma riff in Ginsberg newsletter
Quick hit to say: The Allen Ginsberg weekly newsletter of goodness included a gracious name check and link to my
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Writing Life
Dharma Bums on auction (*only* a significant spark which arc’d the transpacific poetry renaissance)
Dharma Bums Typescript at Sottebys auction as part of “Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker” Any
Kinfolk + Pals
So we go on (Dad, me, Ichi / axe handles
Everything new is old again / axe handles My dear Dad passed on on this day (3:30 AM PST at
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Guest + Greetings Pods
“Early Sht” writer riffs with J. Emde, MFA on WRTES pod
Have i encouraged you to listen to be recap my glory days from 1979-1989ish in “Writers Read Their Early Sh*t
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“Kerouac in Kobe” – *On the Road scroll* in Japan / video interview + exhibit
A rollicking mixed-media revue of a groundbreaking exhibit in Japan featuring a stunningly-reproduced facsimile of the taped-together sc/roll manuscript of
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Museum Exhibit: D. T. Suzuki Zen / Kanazawa, Japan, 2019
As such, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (a city filled with exceptional museums – by my standards, especially small, specialized, and a little
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Personal Musings
Musing: fires, volcanos, axe handles & cycle of children
March 13, 2022: I went to sleep last night – first night without a fire in the stove for some
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Riff: We are a *new/old* movement whether it has a “name” or not
Written (maybe March 2021?) in reply to an association/community of creatives riffing off the Jack Kerouac writing for Japhy Ryder
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Writing Life
Gary Snyder Tribute from Library of America
The great poet Gary Snyder’s “entire” collection of published – and previously uncollected works – was recently assembled and published by
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Books, by post: Kerouac, Snyder, Rimbaud, Murakami Ryu + Bowles, Proust, Dylan
Books, arrived by post, including: Jack Kerouac “on the road” 2 more copies (I have several) Gary Snyder “axe handles”
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Items: Concorde in Jordan, Everest Aerogramme, stamps from Katin, and poetry from Sierras
These Postcards come with a scribble note of unexpected affection from my official fountain pen, meanwhile, items by post of
Collections of Artifacts
Items (from archive): mountain flyers, rock newspaper clippings etc.
Did some sortganizing in the archive & took a few quick snaps of interesting items, snip’d, collect’d, curat’d. Now into
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Curiously Punctuated (and Ready) ~ Beat Sushi with Jason Emde
Spontaneous riffs and readings from world rambling renegade letter writer with a new master’s thesis, Jason Emde who, as it
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Beat Sushi
Community & Correspondence ~ Beat Sushi for Dan in Mass & Jack Kerouac 100
Taking a break from chainsaw noise cutting down bamboo, DaveO rambles on about the importance of community and correspondence (yes
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