reading desk (affinities/correspondences) Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje Selected Poems 1965-2000 by Merrill Gilfillan Chinese Poems by Arthur Waley Of Least Concern by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
The Little Lady of Ch’ing-Ch’i Her door opened on the white water Close by the side of the timber bridge; That’s where the little lady lived All alone without a lover. -a children’s song (tr. Arthur Waley)
A crow flew down and stood on a stone. The crow flew away and the stone was alone. -after Kunjunni Mash (for children)
The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling, And the settled rain, dripping, dripping, In the Eight Directions—the same dusk. The level lands—one great river. -T’ao Ch’ien, from “Flood” (tr. Arthur Waley)
Shigeo Anzai / Isamu Noguchi’s grave in Mure, Shikoku, Japan, 1989
Isamu Noguchi / Shiva Lingam in Hampi, Karnataka, India, ca. 1950s
Heavy rain: landslides have caused the river to overflow … towns, villages along its banks flooded … main roads closed, we’re isolated … no electricity for several days … only now has the internet come back
In the South the mountain-villages bear river-names. -after Wang Chien & Arthur Waley
Felice Beato / Shore with Ships on Horizon and Five Figures Standing on Beach, 1871
passing villages under the moon night train . hare in the moon distant drums deepen the silence (1996) __ (after Buson) perched on a mound of paddy straw crow at dawn . riverlight wings of a kingfisher (1992)
literary works praised by Werner Herzog: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz Del Castillo The Poetic Edda The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway The Georgics by Virgil All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
books loved by Bruce Chatwin: In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam Planet and Glow-worm by Edith Sitwell The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Notebooks containing the first draft of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, 1988 (Ransom Center, Austin, Texas)
The shrine rests in the shade of a great pipal tree filled with black and silver birds.
from @parisreview's Art of Poetry, no. 69 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1790/the-art-of-poetry-no-69-yves-bonnefoy
7 a.m. The river is as still as the burnished face of an Aranmula mirror.
1777: Garden much torn by the wind. Only two or three swifts to be seen.
Shapes: An albumen silver photograph from late 19th/early 20th century, sadly without title or the photographer's name. The addition of "Qajar" period hints at Central Asia/Persia, I guess? Image and slightly more info: www.brooklynmuseum.org/de-DE/object...
“I’ve forgotten the name of my hotel” Yves Bonnefoy, The Wandering Life (tr. Hoyt Rogers)
