Lid: Pitoucat

Moonlight

As a pale phantom with a lamp
Ascends some ruin's haunted stair,
So glides the moon along the damp
Mysterious chambers of the air.

Now hidden in cloud, and now revealed,
As if this phantom, full of pain,
Were by the crumbling walls concealed,
And at the windows seen again.

Until at last, serene and proud
In all the splendor of her light,
She walks the terraces of cloud,
Supreme as Empress of the Night.

I look, but recognize no more
Objects familiar to my view;
The very pathway to my door
Is an enchanted avenue.

All things are changed. One mass of shade,
The elm-trees drop their curtains down;
By palace, park, and colonnade
I walk as in a foreign town.

The very ground beneath my feet
Is clothed with a diviner air;
While marble paves the silent street
And glimmers in the empty square.

Illusion! Underneath there lies
The common life of every day;
Only the spirit glorifies
With its own tints the sober gray.

In vain we look, in vain uplift
Our eyes to heaven, if we are blind;
We see but what we have the gift
Of seeing; what we bring we find.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

door theoldman op 7:06 am (EST) om Nov 29, 2009

Out of the beats came the hippies, though not without some antagonism between the former and the latter. That was my take on it back in 1967, in the East Village, when I lived on the next block up from Ginsberg's pad, which I visited once (he wasn't there at the time, was visiting his mother in Elizabeth), and now as well, years later, in Woodstock, where Ed Sanders is a majordomo of sorts and Helen Weaver lives up the road from me. (I'll catch her at a reading she's doing in town next Friday night.)

So you might be interested in my book, given that context: "I Think, Therefore Who Am I?" Memoir of a Psychedelic Year. It's been reviewed on LT, on amazon, on barnes&noble.com.

door copyedit52 op 8:23 am (EST) om Nov 28, 2009

Noticed you liked Clockwork Orange, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a group of violent kids (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

door cmtusa op 10:38 am (EST) om Sep 14, 2009

RE: Cassidy's Girl

I'm happy to scan this cover for your Goodis site, which is great btw. What resolution would you like? Busy week with students returning, might take me a bit to get to it.

--Dave

door Spitfire60 op 3:45 pm (EST) om Aug 20, 2009

Dear Dave:

Yes, I've been emailing furiously with Guido about it. I didn't know or remember that I sent you the dub, and you sent it to PWB. However, Bussard sent me an acetate with it on it, which was what I must have used, since he's got the only copy

door Romis78 op 2:20 pm (EST) om Oct 25, 2008

Dear Dave:

Yes, I've been emailing furiously with Guido about it. I didn't know or remember that I sent you the dub, and you sent it to PWB. However, Bussard sent me an acetate with it on it, which was what I must have used, since he's got the only copy

door Romis78 op 2:20 pm (EST) om Oct 25, 2008

Dear Dave:

Yes, I've been emailing furiously with Guido about it. I didn't know or remember that I sent you the dub, and you sent it to PWB. However, Bussard sent me an acetate with it on it, which was what I must have used, since he's got the only copy

door Romis78 op 2:20 pm (EST) om Oct 25, 2008

Dear Dave:

Yes, I've been emailing furiously with Guido about it. I didn't know or remember that I sent you the dub, and you sent it to PWB. However, Bussard sent me an acetate with it on it, which was what I must have used, since he's got the only copy

door Romis78 op 2:20 pm (EST) om Oct 25, 2008

Dear Dave:

Yes, I've been emailing furiously with Guido about it. I didn't know or remember that I sent you the dub, and you sent it to PWB. However, Bussard sent me an acetate with it on it, which was what I must have used, since he's got the only copy

door Romis78 op 2:20 pm (EST) om Oct 25, 2008

Dear Dave:

I don't know if the last comment was sent, as there was some trouble with the connection. Do you have the CD Hotwalker by Tom Russell? If not, I'll send you a dub.
Best wishes, Roger

door Romis78 op 2:30 pm (EST) om Oct 21, 2008

i love the page. i've loved it since I first discovered it, years ago.
i just started using it to upload pictures for librarything. i'm moving pretty slow at that. eventually, i'll probably scan what isn't represented on your page. then, i'll send along those pictures to you. sometimes, it's hard to look at your site. It's like being a dirty impoverished hungry child in a candy store. i can't touch or buy. but god knows, i know what that's like. hope all is well, brother.

door michaelstevens op 6:57 pm (EST) om Jun 18, 2008

Hey, thanks! I love that page and had no idea it was yours. Congratulations on the most complete W.S.B. cover gallery ever. I've often wondered who put that together. Now that I know it's updated regularly I'll visit it more often. Also, I'll let you know whenever I finish editing The Road To Interzone. I picked it up again after the beginning of the year. I've been away from it for four years. I feel like it's complete but it needs some work. I'll keep you updated. Thanks for writing. All the best, -Michael.

door michaelstevens op 10:41 pm (EST) om Jun 17, 2008

Hey Dave:

Of course I remember. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but I've not been on this site in a while & just now found your email.

How's everything going with you?

All best,
Jeff

door JWeddle op 9:34 pm (EST) om Jan 21, 2008

Yes, I did indeed have a piece about Goodis in Crimetime!

door eddieduggan op 6:04 pm (EST) om Jan 3, 2008

Oh, duh. Got all wrapped up about Bodenheim and I forgot to mention why I added you to my "interesting libraries" list. With the several shared interests I will be browsing among the authors you list with whom I am not familiar. Feel sure I'm likely to find some more gems.

cheers.

door wrayb op 11:34 am (EST) om Jan 1, 2008

Hi- I added you to my list of "interesting libraries" because of our several shared interests such as Fante, Bodenheim, and Chester Himes. Of course there is Bukowski, but he seems so popular on here that I've stopped using his writing as a barometer of common interests. Seems Bodenheim is hard to come by these days. I don't know of any reissues of his books and the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s books have gotten harder to find. I have one or two more not yet listed, including one of his poetry, which he regarded much higher than his prose. I agree. For me, his poetry contains some of the best verse I've read in English. His prose presents interesting slices of Americana.

door wrayb op 11:30 am (EST) om Jan 1, 2008

Hi!
I had to investigate the title "Bukowski's book"....I couldn't find it on my shelf, it seems like I added it together with some Bukowski titles frpm someone else's library and it was a mistake, I probably confused it with the other Jim Burns title I have. Anyway, I deleted it from my library but now I can't find it at all in the total database....interesting.
Anyway, I don't have that book - wish I had...sounds interesting...:-). I wonder if there is a book with that title? I must have added it from somewhere. You know Burns? Maybe you should ask Burns to write it..?
Let's keep in contact
Best wishes
---H

door HankD op 6:25 am (EST) om Dec 20, 2007

Hi!
Good to hear from you, I've been browsing your
interesting library as well...!
I will check out that Burns title and I'll be back.
Until later
---Henry

door HankD op 7:43 am (EST) om Dec 18, 2007

halloween eve,

i forgot my username
or my password.
so, here i am
under a new handle.

been surfing the reviews
of your library books.
one can drown
here.

san

door leftedgeart op 10:30 pm (EST) om Oct 31, 2007