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Walter Benjamin

"If there is a counterpart to the confusion of a library, it is the order of its catalogue."---------Walter Benjamin   

John Ashbery

  The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits  in thunder,  Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment,  From livid curtain's hue, a tangram emerges: a country."  Meanwhile the Sea Hag was relaxing on a green couch: "How  pleasant  To spend one's vacation en la casa de Popeye," she  scratched  Her cleft chin's solitary hair. She remembered spinach  And was going to ask Wimpy if he had bought any spinach.  "M'love," he intercepted, "the plains are decked out  in thunder  Today, and it shall be as you wish." He scratched  The part of his head under his hat. The apartment  Seemed to grow smaller. "But what if no pleasant  Inspiration plunge us now to the stars? For this is my  country."  Suddenly they remembered how it was cheaper in the country.  Wimpy was thoughtfully cutting open a number 2 can of spinach  When the door opened and Swee'pea crept in. "How pleasant!"  B...
 NOV. 28 SIGHTINGS Ron Silliman way out at Pima College reading Unfortunate---I don't really know why UA Poetry Center parking lot Alice Notley  said m y n are across the lot! Riding in a car with Billy Collins lookin at real estate
WEDNESDAY nov. 9 HORROR SOW, POSTS IN creation turned to HTML. Got turned on somehow
 David Foster Wallace used the word "lovely"

PLACES

 Bucket list Places Santorini Barcelona Morrocco Quebec City Montreal Vancouver Taos Chichen Itza Peru New Zealand China (River Cruise) Tibet  Maldives

NOV 13

 NOV 13 WALKED Up TO STARK ST THE Economy IS life according to experts. Oh so what about inflate, except for poorest who might starve. So much a middle class problem. the poor are left out as usual

BERG---Ted Berrigan

  b.  210 Letter to Simon Schucat   b.  169 Letter to Charles Upton   b.  184 Letter to Ann Charters   b.  13b 27 Handmade book.   b.  13b Letter to Lewis Warsh   b.  212 Yo-yo's with money   b.  212 Somethings With Brainard/Padgett.   b.  213 Poster and announcement.   b.  213 Sonnet workshop   b.  213 Announcement   b.  213 Letter to Andrew Wylie   b.  80a Letters from Conrad Aiken   b.  45 Letter/postcards from Barbara Guest   b.  211 Letter from Bernadette Dorn   b.  80a The ars poetica machine typescript draft of poem   b.  120 The Sonnets, Publisher's archive Corr. Typescript with letters/ NOTE: Discovered missing 10/1/2005.   b.  51f Berrigan airplane flyer Original art work.   b.  51e Miscellaneous 1 folder  

BERG---Grenier

  SS Grenier, Robert   b.  152 Sentences Typescript on 103 cards, with autograph letter signed to Clark Coolidge, June 29, 1972.   b.  120 Did You. Cottonwoods (or K. Irby) typed manuscript with holograph editions?   b.  51e Language/site/world   b.  51e Writing times- talk / discussion   b.  51e Letters to Joanne and Donald Kyger   b.  51e A day at the beach from Joanne Kyger.   b.  51e Loose pages   b.  51e Twenty-six poems   b.  51e What I believe in Poems.   b.  51e Phantom anthems Poems.   b.  51e The lovers, thinkers Poems.