Thursday, June 9, 2011

Past All Traps: Pittsburgh City Paper and The Improvised Life

Photograph by Heather Mull


In anticipation of Saturday's Book Launch at ModernFormations Gallery for my poetry collection, Past All Traps, Justin Hopper has done a very generous profile (with 4 poems), which you can find here, in which he very much "got it."

In addition, two poems from the collection are featured on The Improvised Life: A Guide to the Daily Possible (poems as gifts: don wentworth’s ‘past all traps’).  Thanks very much to Sally Schneider, proprietor of The Improvised Life, and Maureen Rolla for passing the book along to her.

I'm looking forward to Saturday's reading, with Renée Alberts, Nikki Allen, Kris Collins, Jerome Crooks, and Angele Ellis, which should be a gas.  More info on the reading may be found on Facebook. Past All Traps may be purchased at the blog (top of the right hand sidebar via Paypal, otherwise known as the top right side of this very page, or from amazon). 



sitting straight   —   Crow knows.
                                from Past All Traps








the ants rush
to make a road...
Buddha's birthday flowers

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue








best,
Don


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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM

    Fire caught up to you on your way out of the house that day with Fred. It's in your eyes, "past all traps".

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  2. Issa's Untidy HutJune 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    !!! Thanks, Donna.

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  3. AnonymousJune 9, 2011 at 6:21 PM

    This is a really nice story. I just ordered the book and am looking forward to reading it. - Mark

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  4. adityaJune 10, 2011 at 4:55 AM

    Wonderful poems - the few I could read. I read the story and the picture is lovely as well.


    "Stop counting syllables, / start counting the dead."

    Oh ! Like a knife in the ribs!

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  5. Issa's Untidy HutJune 10, 2011 at 6:40 AM

    Mark:

    Many thanks ... got the order really appreciated, both that and your kind words.

    Don

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  6. Issa's Untidy HutJune 10, 2011 at 6:41 AM

    aditya,

    Thanks very much ... it's get to know something touches someone half a world a way ...

    Don

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  7. banditJune 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM

    I was taken aback by the anecdote of the woman who gestured with Buddha's hand. I want to read more . . . w

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  8. Issa's Untidy HutJune 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM

    Ask, bandit, and you shall receive:

    http://www.newyinzer.com/archive/spring09/20d.html

    Don

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