Good news from Open Books:
Dear Paul y SPLAB,
Good news today on the McClure book front. Our rep sent e-mail confirming we will have thirty copies of Mysteriosos to sell at the reading. I’m not sure when we’ll be getting them– sometime twixt now and then. Happy day!
until soon,
John (Marshall)
MYSTERIOSO O N E
LOVELY. LOVELY AND ANCIENT AND FOXED
with rusty brown spots as the oldest
IMMORTAL PRINCESS,
or the Bodhisattva Kwannon as a simpering
and infinitely generous
OLD WHORE.
How surprised we are at what passes
in past and future
for the scent of apples.
I
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T
know more about the skin and muscles
and the wall of stars two billion light years long;
I
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S
all
QUICK
! ! !
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
