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Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody)

Tonight , the dead pray for us

About Me

The novel is called Corpse Meditation ; parapetic without being Aristotle or shadow - Ghostbone - uncleching; skeleton fists breaking from teeth - the covering of loved ones breathing with eyes - hearing their heart beneath yr chestcage - exhuming the living / cleaning the dead.It's a novel i wrote ; A diptych when seen alongside current novel writing called Mahoning Falls.two more novels leaking from mind.a little homespun hanamuke chapbook verse for your joy. i hand deliver if my car will take me to where you are before the string and mud holding the exhaust manifold in place burn off. otherwise, i gotta mail the parcel.read my recent blog post if you want a copy for yourself. or for them."Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" - Gavin Bryars & Tom Waits
Manage"If i am to find a cosmos of my body, i must think it that way!""THE BONES OF SILENCEPlain MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider
You Are Surrealism
Dreamy and idealistic, you've created a world that is all your own.
It's very likely that you've either dabbled in drugs or are naturally trippy.
You are always trying to push beyond the boundaries of your culture and society.
You believe that art, love, and freedom can change the world. What Art Movement Are You?/aHarry Partch - Delusions of the Fury, Part IV

My Interests

Jess Willard (L) trying to survive Jack Dempsey (R), a mauler he was - Dempsey - flesh, blood & iron.poetics, ecology, women, bare-knuckles boxing, theater, sports, 8-pound glove boxing, music, Native Indian mythology, ancient cermonial rites of the Australian Aborigenese/African tribes/Germanic/Peruvian/Central and South American/Icelandic,Eskimos rites/women Take the quiz:
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Cleveland
You are blue collar and Rock n Roll. You Work hard and party harder.

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I'd like to meet:

NICHI NICHI KORE KO NICHI
Utah-Northern Railroad; a crag & a steedEven though slow and sluggishevening comes,and stops as with a gestureyour song;even though you are alonein the infinite sky,and your body weary,and in terror you uttera silent mantrato horizons hidden by the veil-bird, O my bird,though it is darkening,do not fold your wings. Rabindranath Tagore& from William Blake....."If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise."

Music:

(how) Harry (is your) Partch, The Jarts, Matt Thompson, Troy Gregorino twirling his girl on the green, Andrew Bird, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Jacqueline DuPre and the cello between thigh shroud, Ravi Shankar, Genesis, Gustav Holst, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Iannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, John Zorn, Henry Cow, King Crimson, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, Joe Jackson, Bruce Hornsby, Elvis Presley, George Crumb, Doc Watson, Fred Eaglesmith, Toru Takemitsu, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Ryan Adams, Kasey Chambers, Patsy Cline, Joplin, Rachmaninov, Jeff Buckley, Howlin' Wolf, Chris Cornell, Brandi Carlile, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Bjork, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ma Rainey, Ella, Billie, Elgar, Hildegard Von Bingen,Mozart, Captain Beefheart (and the Magic Heart Band) Yes, Daniel Johnston,Elmore James,Anton Webern, Arvo Part,Bonnie Raitt,Yoakam, Edgard Varese, Ornette Coleman, Sigur Ros, Steve Earle, Terry Riley, Tim Buckley, Rickhard Buckner, Gunshy

Movies:

Two Bits, On The Waterfront, Death of A Salesmen, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Blood of the Poet and Cocteau en general, The Proposition, Guy Maddin, Director/Writer, check in on what he does; Ingmar Bergman en masse, Jesus' Son, Un Chien Andalou, The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, M , Broken Wings , Winter Passing, Battleship Potemkin, The Prestige, Carl Theodore Dreyer films, The Ghost and The Darkness, The Godfather I & II, Scarface, Mean Streets, Once Upon A Time In America, Indian Runner, The Exorcist, Serpico, Being John Malkovich,Raging Bull, Hard Times, The Source, Young Frankenstien, Laurel-n-Hardy flicks, The Deer Hunter, The Exorcist III, Office Space, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Grapes of Wrath, In Cold Blood, The Onion Field, A Streetcar Named Desire, Stan Brakhage films, The Love of Lord, Jonas Mekas, Don Hertzfeldt films, Delusions of the Fury (a Partch corporeality, Elling; Spring, Summer, Fall Winter....& Spring, Two Soldiers, M, The Triolgy, The Devil & Daniel Johnston, Vampyre, Babel, The Wind Will Carry Us .."http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e248/artneo/love_liza.j pg"border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket" .."http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e248/artneo/blood_of_a_ poet.jpg"border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket" .."http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/artneo/laurel_hardy_mur der_case.jpg"border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket"

Television:


Wolf
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Books:

William Blake, Whitman, Takahashi, Li Po, Tu Fu, Cormac McCarthy, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Melton, Skovensky, Gregorino, Pershey-Willis-Pershey, Ragain, Lajowsky, Thompson Matt, Gary Snyder, Sherwood Anderson Ralph Waldo Emerson, Han Shan, Henry David Thereau, Rabindranath Tagore, Diane DiPrima, Denise Levertov, Anne Waldman, Garcia Lorca, Langston Hughes, Bob Kaufman, Gregory Corso, Jack Micheline, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Sandburg, Dante, Odin, Dostoevsky, Chekov, Virginia Woolf, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, Merlin Bridges, David Hassler, Russell Vidrick, Daniel Thompson, Buddha, Lady Fire, Neese, Weatherman, Brother Kafka, Brother Grover, Sister Cat, Sister Aurora, Brother Duke Handsome, Brother Mingo, Brother Teric, Kafka itself, Gabriel Garcia Marquezimg src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b194/findingatlantis/ 086.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"

Heroes:

Would not call them heroes. People of important note to me:my family and friends. Charles Bronson, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, all Black women, Cold Mountain, James Dean, Paramahansa Yogananda, Buddha, Jane Russell, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basillio, Willy Pep, Tony Zale, Cassius Clay, Jake LaMotta, Chuck Wepner, Rocky Graziano, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmelling, Jimmy Carter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ed Norton, Billy Crudup, Denis Leary, Tina Majorino, Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman, Holl Hunter, Emily Watson, Robert Downey Jr., Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Laura Linney, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn, DeNiro, Pacino, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Robbie Coltrane and any of the underground poets/thespians/dancers/painters/sculptors/musicians/boxers/ Buddhas who have yet to be recognized in the Sun and Moon

My Blog

Exogenesis

surfacing from the shadows of sun and cloud; trees, squirrels dashing 'cross white oak branches stretching out like skeletons' reach, there is a new novel finished written and going-through revisions ...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:29:00 PST

grains of thought moving in the dust

http://literarycafe.net/blog/?paged=2 head over to the Literary Cafe website, Tremont Ohio treehouse zendo, where Beth Ann Sadowski and her stunning gridiron poesy and i gave a featured reading someti...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:31:00 PST

puttin’ up the shack

i'm stokin' again a blog i haven't frequented for awhile, just for the hell of it. footprints do well in rain and snow, washing away in both. let the words purge our stretching......   this, the ...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:59:00 PST

a poem from Alan Kaufman

I Know How It Feels My parakeet is trying to kill himselfHe pops his head through the rungs of his ladderand tries to twist off his headThen he climbs to the top of the cagehangs upside down, and lets...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:29:00 PST

What Whitman Took With Him

i'm tired of the trees looking exultant mendicantspraising the gossamer sky for it's streaked mammatus webs& muted presence the abject sun buttes againstwhile people mill about boulevards tossing ...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:18:00 PST

Mahoning Falls proceeds

what shows from the novel in-working:            What earth there was formed itself out of shadows itinerant to umbra & penumbra. He dragged himself al...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:25:00 PST

for amanda

(yes, la biblioteca....)once punctured, the mud yields the shovel it's polygamy & turns sweet-lips towards for whose trespass awakened it's slumber from myriad serpentines;o...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:23:00 PST

what the day has found

from "Mahoning Falls":              & the wind tells the dead which way the wheel turns; the gristmill, a palanquin dragging clouds, dragging ...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:46:00 PST

Brother Grover & His Word

and if Brother Grover's poesy hasn't been seen by your mind & eye-rain, it should; his is a poetry that lifts & demands. thank you for this review MDG.....mitakuye oyasin; we are all family. &...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:46:00 PST

A Story As I Write

             Seagulls took to the salt-box church's palsied shadow somehow given rigidity with it's timid skeleton from the discordant slathering ...
Posted by Paul (with a P, as in Psalmody) on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:53:00 PST