#Lisa Jarnot

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February by Lisa Jarnot

What a sad life and great poems a certain slant of grapefruit slices in the sunlight, in the coffee, absolutely the morning of the cats, Hebrides and highlands, hills of running out there to the one I love.

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Neither angels nor vemilion clay.

— Lisa Jarnot, Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems (1992-2012), (2013)

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Lisa Jarnot

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Marcus Aurelius Rose 

BY LISA JARNOT

for Thomas

From the five good emperors

I have learned that there were five good emperors,

From the lemon tree I’ve planted

now I know that leaves unpummeled yet will drop,

From the clock, the time, it’s five p.m.,

from the sun the length of day,

From Quercus borealis, the queer names of the leaves

of all the trees,

From burning I’ve learned burning,

from the aster family chickory abounds,

From hawkweed of the colors bright,

from sleeping, of my dreams,

From mosquitoes, scratching, from fishes, fishing,

from turkeys how to run and how to hop,

From erect perennials I’ve learned to reach the shelf,

from my cats to lick the dark part of the tin,

From the sparrows I’ve learned this and that,

from Germanic tribes, to gather thoughts in herds,

From the window blinds, from the sun decayed,

from the heart, a brimming record braised and turned.

[gustaving]

By Lisa Jarnot

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The Iliad Book XXII: The Death Of Hector (2007)

Lisa Jarnot

Book Thug

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favourite poems of january

tony hoagland note to reality

henri cole middle earth: “myself and cats”

minerva s.m. kamra chronic

stacie cassarino zero at the bone: “in the kitchen”

bonnie jo stufflebeam barking dog nocturnal

ron silliman the alphabet: “you, part i”

sara borjas a heart can only be broken once, like a window

karen an-hwei lee song of the oyamel

louise glück afterword

kai nham follow the moon

elisabeth houston standard american english: “re-peat! re-verse! re-hearse!”

victoria stitt the carolina quarterly: “autumn convalescence”

noor ibn najam you smelled like an animal

ben still concept pest control

ray dipalma obediant laughter: “after midnight”

sasha pimentel cats

thanh-tam nguyen a lit match to burn what your country doesn’t remember

sarah abbas collecting words in attempt to keep them the same

julia wong kcomt (tr. jennifer shyue) woman eaten by cats

lisa jarnot ring of fire: “the bridge”

torrin a. greathouse i am beginning to mistake the locust’s song for silence

siaara freeman when i speak of hunger

vandana khanna train to agra: “evening prayer”

ouyang jianghe (tr. austin woerner) mother, kitchen

kayleb rae candrilli sand & silt

antony hecht an offering for patricia

sara ellen fowler shed project notes, august 30, 2019 - la madera, nm 

vincent hiscock voice in the air: afterthought

margie piercy mars & her children: “the cat’s song”

eva chen how to bleed a ghost

sayuri ayers cordella magazine: “in the season of pink ladies”

buy me a coffee

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Le 27 avril 2024 au CipM, la revue Watts était à l'honneur, pour une rencontre autour des pratiques de la traduction ! Merci à Hauer Philippe d'avoir défendu l'idée d'une telle rencontre, merci à toute l'équipe du CipM. La photo (copiée sur l'instagram du CipM) montre Philippe Hauer, Samuel Rochery, et Simon Brown (en direct du Québec). Excellent souvenir ! On a lu Lisa Jarnot, Sanya Noël, Amy Lawless, Carrie Bennet et Sylvester Stallone (et on s'est posé des questions au sujet de Sylvester)

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These images, Magnolia and Damsel Fly Nymphs (1979), Still Life with Chicken (1992), and Duck (1977), all by Bruce Kurland, are presented in accompaniment with Isaac (formerly Lisa) Jarnot's lecture, "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise," now available to listen to via the BWLS podcast.

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"Jarnot’s sudden shifts of tone and reference vivify a central conviction. Faith, the centering vision of 'the world tree' or mythological axis mundi, here depends on the 'weird but true,' the spontaneous overflow of odd delights ('llamas dream') that reinforce that center by virtue of their winning eccentricity."

Read the rest of Peter Campion's stunning review of A PRINCESS MAGIC PRESTO SPELL by Lisa Jarnot (Flood Editions) over at Public Books!

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Today’s Poem

After Catullus --Lisa Jarnot

For Thomas

In the beginning there was grief, a garden in the center of a city lit in rose and green, a quickening of the air across the wing of a plane upon the tip of the Labrador Sea there was gleaming there, a torque not finished or forestalling there was the promise of Paris’s perpetual pomme pressed in gold, there was only the hole in the heel of a sock, the steam of a since in a fore-flung damp hotel there was nothing baked or boiled there was a stiffness, a whiteness, a heaviness of limbs and chips and silvered peas, there was this about it—a dipping of the sun, a singular spoon, a grid of hymns buried under the finances of a pickled cork, there was finally that sense of it, pharmacies or chemists or high streets or the shape of an ear of a baby asleep, heavily there was that, let me explain it again let it be turned by the heave of a hundred craven wivers of verse, let the pendulous balls of finest quality lead render it into what I think it is. Let me go back to that garden in the center of that city to know I who I loved.

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June after Lisa Jarnot, February

What a sad life and great poems the held note of roses climbing through the window, the full-bodied orange tipping the glass, and the honey yawn of morning pouring over the maple, Murray Hill and fresh meadows, rivers of rushing back to the place I call home.

- Cora Finch

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My love […] self-conscious in the dusk.

— Lisa Jarnot, Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems (1992-2012), (2013)

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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography 

by Lisa Jarnot

call # PS3507.U629 Z72 2012  

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Peter J. Grieco is former professor of English and retired school bus driver. His poems have been widely published in small magazines on-line and in print. His blog “At the Musarium and Other Writings” [https://pjgrieco.wordpress.com/] archives much of this work.

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–Lisa Jarnot, author of Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography (University of California Press, 2012), and Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems 1992–2012 (City Lights, 2013).

Peter Grieco has always been an inveterate museum-goer, and one feels his engagement with the pictures he has studied at every step. These poems are brilliant, in almost the literal sense of the word: if the phrase had not been used too often, one would be inclined to say that they “leap off the page.” Grieco’s effort to achieve the tangibility of the painterly medium in words can be sensed in every line, and is successful to an astonishing degree. One can feel, and almost taste, “the blind man’s bread.” The violence of physicality breaks through: “Shall I strip, paint my body / blue & roll across the scissors?” Grieco is a poet of great versatility (see, for instance, his “procedural” poems) and of deep quality. His work will be read when many other poets now popular will have been forgotten.

–Irving Massey, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo (Emeritus), author of Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology, Ohio State UP, 2018.

Peter Grieco is an excellent poet, versatile but always genuine. In addition to writing on the classical themes of poetry, Peter has done series on Freud’s ‘ Interpretation of Dreams’ and on works of art (‘ekphrastic poetry’.) I urge the publication of his work, which I hold in the very highest regard.

–Arthur Efron, Professor Emeritus of English, University at Buffalo

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Midwinter Day Reader List

Here is our up to date list of confirmed readers for St. Rocco’s 4th Annual Midwinter Day Marathon on December 18th, 2021. Register on Eventbrite to watch, and be sure to donate to Bernadette’s fundraiser!

Part 1 (Beginning at 3pm)

Bernadette Mayer

Shelly Marlow

Laura Henriksen

Vincent Katz

Lydia Davis

Cat Tyc

Jennifer Firestone

Laura McLean-Ferris

Alexis Bhagat

Shanna Compton

Oliver Ray

Emily Brown

Hana van der Kolk

Kyle Schlesinger

Luisa Giuliano

Tess Caroline

Sophia Dahlin

Yasmine Shamma

Violet Spurlock

Michelle Tea

Eleni Siklianos

Elisa Albert

max warsh

Part 2 (Beginning around 4pm)

Brenda Coultas

Matthew Klane

Julie Patton

Christina Strong

Marcella Durand

Part 3 (Beginning around 4:30pm)

Liz Janoff

Marie Warsh

Mo Ritter

Kay Gabriel

Nada Gordon

Lynne Sachs

Chris Kraus

Lee Ann Brown

Laynie Browne

Phil Good

Part 4 (Beginning around 5:15pm)

Katy Bohinc

Bethany Ides

TBC

Aida Muratoglu

Michael Ruby

Sophia Warsh

Jenn McCreary

Suzanne Goldenberg

Dorothea Lasky

Alystyre Julian

Eileen Myles

Kennedy Coyne

tanner menard

Raymond Maxwell

Kenning JP Garcia

Part 5 (Beginning around 6:00pm, or earlier, or later)

JJ Rowan

TBC

Rebecca Wolff

Don Yorty

Joe Elliot

Ray Daniels

Lisa Jarnot

Adam Fitzgerald

Sarah Archer

Anna Gurton-Wachter

Part 6 (Beginning around 7pm, or earlier, or later)

Sam Truitt

Elizabeth Guthrie

Sarah Steadman

Shira Dentz

Rider Alsop

Thom Donovan

Tara Ahmadinejad

Becca Klaver

Erica Dawn Lyle

Sara Jane Stoner

Kimberly Alidio

Stacy Szymaszek

Tony Torn

Elizabeth Willis

Anne Waldman