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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Get your tickets now ...

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8 Comments:

Lord of Erewhon said...: Would you be so kind to tell me the source of this photo, author, year?

Cheers!; 12:53 AM
Jeff Davis said...: It was taken by Jonathan Williams at Black Mountain College -- so, in the early fifties. There's a note about the photo with the post, though it's after the "update", and would be easy to miss: "Thanks to Jonathan Williams and the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center for permission to use Jonathan’s photograph, 'Portrait of the Artist as a Spanish Assassin', taken at Black Mountain College."; 2:15 AM
Lord of Erewhon said...: Thank you so much. A friend of mine wrote a poem for Robert Creely, which refers him becoming blind in one eye at 4 y.o. Would the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center mind we post the photo (with the source) in our blog O Bar do Ossian along with the poem?

Cheers!; 6:50 AM
Lord of Erewhon said...: P. S. Creeley (sorry).; 9:19 PM
Jeff Davis said...: You can contact the museum at bmcmac@bellsouth.net and inquire. You'll be corresponding with Alice Sebrell, who directs the center's programming, and is generally very helpful in working out permissions.; 9:27 PM
Lord of Erewhon said...: Thank you for being so helpful yourself. It's the «spirit of the golden beatniks» still...

Cheers!; 9:33 PM
Lord of Erewhon said...: P. S. It will be an honor to translate one of your poems to Portuguese and post it in O Bar do Ossian.

Would you send me one?

renascimentolusitano@gmail.com; 9:51 PM
Lord of Erewhon said...: Thomas Meyer said yes. Posted.

Thank you so much once again.; 10:00 PM

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Praise for NatureS

"Way back when, a literary gent by the name of E.L. Pound, from Hailey, Idaho, announced to the world: 'I divide poetry into what I can read and what I cannot read.' I am new to Jeff Davis's work but hit'll read!!! It reminds me that writers named Robert Creeley and Charles Olson once taught at Black Mountain College in Buncombe County NC - and made a difference."

~Jonathan Williams

"These poems are succinct in language and insights - no waste of words here - lovely and moving jewels of the Eleusinian luminous darkness, a magnificent shining in the dark. Poems (all of them) that are gifts, with a sassy bit of awareness to ground them all. At their best, they show an excellent eye and ear for the images and rhythms of nature - fresh, clear, as any sparkling mountain stream - and sing with that limpidity Olson was always trying to drum into my head at Black Mountain. Jeff Davis is a poet who knows what most males thirst to know - and die, not knowing. 'I am written,' Rimbaud said, and he is just that in these poems."

~Michael Rumaker

"Being human and part of nature, what we have in common with the natural world is something we gain then lose, gain then lose, over and over. The continual process of holding and letting go makes up the world we smell, we taste, we see, we feel, we hear, we share. As the custodian of this experience we have none better than Jeff Davis. He has been tireless in his practice of recording these dark and luminous encounters: the flicker of love, or the shadow of leaves in the wind."

~Thomas Meyer