Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Punk Rockwell by Michael Rothenberg Punk Rockwell by Michael Rothenberg. Photo by Terri Carrion. UNHURRIED VISION, a year in the life of Michael, is really a deeply loving celebration & farewell to mentor Philip Whalen, poet, roshi, & all around confounder of boundaries. A day-book; a non-epic odyssey through routes & roots of living & dying; a gastronome's pleasure dome, but above all a deeply stirred & stirring affirmation of poetry's centrality in realizing mundane & profound instances in the everyday extraordinary. Rothenberg's raw footage is disarming; sly, self-effacing, proclaiming, doubting, affirming. You can read it in one sitting, say blurboligists, but it takes at least a lifetime. & then what? "Rothenberg's PUNK ROCKWELL follows and breaks all the rules of fiction simultaneously. A slow-motion, spiraling bullet aimed right between the eyes. original with a capital O." -Michael Largo, author Southern Comfort. "Michael Rothenberg has one of those genius takes on language. . . wit and wordlove, enough to move mountains, chip by chip." -Jack Collom, author 8-Ball. "Michael Rothenberg amazes me with his industry, talent, energy, focus, curiosity. " Punk Rockwell by Michael Rothenberg. Within one hour the phone will ring Begin tomorrow. If we're giving explanations Then we're hats off to the Emperors of Professionalism in a colony of rodents gnawing a rope hanging from the inside of a gold nipple cupola hanging from there until the Director instructs the Poet to give up the habit and cut the vermin down So we can all get on with our science After all, that's what science is meant for. * Olson was a great talker Lyrics under-rated Ponderous Gloucester yammering Poundian absurdiana amounted mountains of speed pills, alcohol When his liver gave out Whalen said he found himself crying big tears, unaccountably Crying there, then finished his pork noodles * Sourdough Mountain Lookout still standing in summer snow Letters between Snyder, Whalen, Kerouac And path to that Dharma Trail or Poet's Trail * They could trace the appearance of asterisks in his work with the concurrence of elephants bathing and fortune cookies that promise things we've always wanted, would be received. Patience will get us all we want. Ten numbers to bet on Lotto. There's no money only divine appreciation of mind moving over plate-- black bean sauce, shrimp and long beans Tea makes the belly warm, should be kept from women Beer makes a belly bigger * She read a poem over the phone It skipped around, about diphthongs, abstract Smattered with paraphernalia, medicines She massaged her nipples Nodded on Huckleberry Finn and went to sleep * And the phone never rang as the hour rang out it's drizzling remains. All my fears unfounded by-product of Jewish upbringing. I'll be loved like a brother Adored past complaint by a flame crowned dragon and my own child will remember me as a good guy * That duck wears a hat in the rain Navy surplus poncho. Cane down worn granite steps off curb into channel rushing Strong enough to climb laces, flood stiff foot That slow walk up to the second floor took 75 years * Most of us live in notebooks alone Some live and keep record in notebooks Either way the notebooks are put in storage We lose the pages, unable to correct punctuation or say what it was we meant the first time or when we said it 12/17/99 << ISBN 13: 9781484861400. Through the eyes of a private journal writer, poet Michael Rothenberg reports on the continual worldwide injustices, tragedies and killings we are forever made to bear witness to on the streets and via the media. What can be done? With compassion and humor, “Murder” begins the investigation. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org and co-founder of the global poetry movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change, www.100tpc.org. Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 and co-founded Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica, which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. While in Pacifica, he helped lead local environmental actions that stopped major coastal developments that would destroy wildlife habitat. His poems have been widely published in literary reviews such as Exquisite Corpse, Mudlark, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket, OR, Prague Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Tricycle, and Zyzzyva. His books include Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press), Man/Women with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), Choose (Big Bridge Press), My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing), and the eco-spy thriller Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press). Michael Rothenberg is editor of several books in the Penguin Poetry Series such as Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen, As Ever: Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger, David’s Copy: Selected Poems by David Meltzer, and Way More West: New and Selected Poems by Ed Dorn and Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan University Press). Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story is scheduled for publication in 2014 by both Shabda Press (USA) and Al Kotob Khan (Cairo, Egypt) in an Arab/English edition, translated by El Habib Louai. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. (No Available Copies) If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you! Punk Rockwell by Michael Rothenberg. This issue is dedicated to Alex Grief, 1952-2004. UNHURRIED VISION, a year in the life of Michael, is really a deeply loving celebration & farewell to mentor Philip Whalen, poet, roshi, & all around confounder of boundaries. A day-book; a non-epic odyssey through routes & roots of living & dying; a gastronome's pleasure dome, but above all a deeply stirred & stirring affirmation of poetry's centrality in realizing mundane & profound instances in the everyday extraordinary. Rothenberg's raw footage is disarming; sly, self-effacing, proclaiming, doubting, affirming. You can read it in one sitting, say blurboligists, but it takes at least a lifetime. & then what? "Rothenberg's PUNK ROCKWELL follows and breaks all the rules of fiction simultaneously. A slow-motion, spiraling bullet aimed right between the eyes. original with a capital O." -Michael Largo, author Southern Comfort. "Michael Rothenberg has one of those genius takes on language. . . wit and wordlove, enough to move mountains, chip by chip." -Jack Collom, author 8-Ball. "Michael Rothenberg amazes me with his industry, talent, energy, focus, curiosity. " -David Meltzer author The Agency Trilogy. "It is a fantastic book. I really enjoyed it. It made me laugh and shudder. Just what a good raunchy book is supposed to do." -Lyn Hejinian, Author. Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Michael Rothenberg has been an active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 25 years, where he cultivates orchids and bromeliads at his nursery, Shelldance. He is a poet, songwriter, editor and co-founder of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. He is also co-editor and co-founder of JACK Magazine, a literary publication that relates to, but expands beyond, the beat generation. His poems have appeared in many journals online and in print, including 2river View, Berkeley Poetry Review, Bolinas Heresay News, Blue Book, Cafe Review, Canary River Review, Cortland Review, The Duct Tape Press, Ecopoetics, Exquisite Corpse, Fish Drum, Fulcrum, Ironwood, Jacket, Lungfull!, Light and Dust@Grist Mobile Anthology of Poetry, Moveo Angelus, Mudlark, Pearl, Poetry Motel, Puerto del Sol, Prague Literary Review, Prosodia, Rolling Stock, Shuffle Boil, Sidereality, Southern Ocean Review, Sycamore Review, Van Gogh�s Ear, Versal, XStream, Ygdrasil, Zuzu's Petals , and Zyzzyva . He has published several poetry books: What The Fish Saw (Twowindows Press, CA, 1984), Nightmare Of The Violins (Twowindows Press, CA, 1986), Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1988), Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1990), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum, Inc, 2000), Monk Daddy (Blue Press, 2003), and Grown Up Cuba (IL Bagatto Press, Amsterdam 2003). He is also the author of the novel Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press, 2000). Editorial projects include Overtime , Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2002), and As Ever , Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin Books, 2002). He is presently working on the selected poems of David Meltzer (Penguin, 2004), and selected poems of Ed Dorn (Penguin, 2006). His songs have appeared in Hollywood Pictures' Shadowhunter and Black Day, Blue Night, and most recently, TriStar Pictures' Outside Ozona . Other songs have been recorded on CDs including: The Darkest Part of The Night by Bob Malone, Difficult Woman by Renee Geyer, Global Blues Deficit by Cody Palance, The Woodys by The Woodys, and a soon to be released CD by Johnny Lee Schell. His poetry books and broadsides are archived at the University of Francisco, and are held in the Special Collection libraries of Brown University, Claremont Colleges, University of Kansas, the New York Public Library, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-Santa Cruz. His most recent book of poems is Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press 2003). He presently divides his time between Pacifica, California and Miami, Florida. Beat Poets will Continue Speaker Series. Acclaimed poets David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg will appear at Lindenwood University at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, as part of the school’s 2008-09 Speaker Series. The event, which will be in the Lindenwood Cultural Center auditorium (400 N. Kingshighway, one block north of Lindenwood’s main St. Charles campus), is free and open to the public. The two will talk about the cultural phenomenon of beat poetry, drawing on their rich experiences in their genre. Meltzer has been a central poet in the San Francisco and national poetry scene for decades. The youngest poet associated with the West Coast Beats, he was also a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance that preceded it. He has published more than 20 books of poetry and prose and edited collections relating to birth, death, ancient songs, Kaballah, and jazz. He currently teaches in the graduate MA/MFA Poetics program at New College of California, as well as in the school's undergraduate Humanities program.