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If this is indeed the final installment in Bob Dylan’s famed Bootleg Series as many predict, then it will be a fitting conclusion to the greatest series of record albums ever released in popular music –  as we end at the point the song-poet began his journey. Through the Open Window features a photograph of a young Bob Dylan circa the 1963 Times A-Changin’ sessions, this collection taking us back to the roots and flames of the singer’s seminal inspiration: folk music.

I am returning to my original sources – like an act of nature. Philip Lamantia Philip Lamantia was one of the unsung heroes of the Beat Generation, as well as of one of its most original voices. Along with Jack  Kerouac and Michael McClure, Lamantia changed the shape of how poets think and write, helping them to find the freedom to follow the wandering paths of the secret mind. This volume reprints the classic collection of Lamantia’s selected poems (1943-1966).

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Elena Evangelo is so much more than an actress, which is often the first word you see tacked to her name. In actuality, a better description of her would be artist, since she has continually attempted to incorporate various mediums into her screen work. In addition to acting, Evangelo is also a serious poet drawn to the sweet nuances of language like moth to flame. This fact becomes apparent in the way she delivers her lines and consumes her characters – looking to embody rather than depict.

Some people have what is known as a photographic (or eidetic) memory, and I happen to have a pronounced ability to recall the spoken word. I remember, virtually verbatim, every significant conversation I’ve taken part in since the age of seven or eight. In 1955 a football scholarship took me all the way from Honolulu to Boston University. Some of my teammates became friends and invited me to their homes for weekends.

If your life is burning, well then poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen Words. God, I love them. Unpredictable. Knotted. Liquid. Percussive. Baked and flat. Round. Grainy. Leached and slim. And the silences. I love them more than words. Empty. Heavy. Thorned. Sometimes taut. Sometimes fat. Glassy and stilled. Ridged. Slicked. Stuffed and flexed. I wrote my first poem when I was 4. I would like to say it was mensa material, but frankly, it was terrible.

In Ephemera, the colors are muted, while flowers, bushes and trees, exuberant in their abundance, dominate every page. But it’s the colors that stay with us – the pastels, the golds, the oranges and the yellows set against that particular greyscape of depression and loss. Yet, in this profound graphic novel recently published by Oakland, California artist Briana Loewinsohn, all the objects created by humans are damaged. Walls and windows have cracks, and so do the flower pots.

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