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THE MYSTERY OF FALSE ATTACHMENTS, NOW AVAILABLE FROM WORD PALACE PRESS. I’m using today’s Poems and Poetics to give a preview of a new book of mine: a gallery ...of 165 poem-fragments that I launched over the last year here on Facebook. The book, scheduled for publication later this month by Word Palace Press in California, includes an accompanying series of full-color deep images (through the Hubble Telescope) of the farthest reaches of the newly visible universe. That NASA calls such photographs deep images a term near & dear to me from when I coined it for a group of poets in the early 1960s represents, for me at least, a welcome overlap of nomenclatures, though the poems, I hope, can still stand on their own. For a dozen of them, anyway, you can check it out, as always, at poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com or at the Jacket2 site: http://jacket2.org/commentary/mystery-false-attachments See more

Jerome Rothenberg's new book "The Mystery of False Attachments" out next month from Word Palace Press.

Jerome Rothenberg's The Mystery of False... Attachments coming soon from Word Place Press

https://drive.google.com//1zHJOyWqu6fgM8KAw1D9RoobP6F/view

PILGRIM'S PROCESS - The Poetry of Michael Hannon November 5th, 2018 - March 29th, 2019 Cal Poly Special Collections and Archives presents a career retrospective of the California-born, Los Osos based poet Michael Hannon.

The charity events at Author's Night in Amagansett, Long Island, yesterday make me grateful to still be around to have such experiences. And more than grateful ...to longtime friend Alec Baldwin for making me a part of it (out of the close to one hundred authors signing their books, I was the only one with a book of poems). Alec made sure I was seated next to him and his amazing wife Hilaria (both of whom had great books (which I highly recommend) to sign (You Can't Spell America Without Me and The Living Clearly Method), and every now and then he'd shout something like: "Make sure you buy my friend Michael Lally's new book. He's the greatest living poet, and pretentious too!" or some other Irish humor that always makes me feel at home, literally. Many people heeded his advice, and other folks bought a copy of Another Way To Play because they had a family member who likes and/or writes poetry, or in a few instances, because they were old friends or ex-students I hadn't seen in years. (All proceeds of the tickets to get into the events and the sales of books went to the libraries out at the end of Long Island.) It was extremely crowded, and the line for Alec to sign his (written in the first-person persona of 45 with, and according to Alec mostly by, Kurt Andersen) was huge when the event began, and never diminished for the over two-and-a-half hours Alec engaged each buyer in conversation and jokes and posed for selfies etc. (it's hard work being a celebrity, as I've learned from being around him and others over the years). It was an honer to have been included for this charity extravaganza which raised over 350,000 dollars. As usual, I feel like an awfully lucky guy. Here's some photos taken by Rachel E. Diken who drove me all the way out there and back and took photos and footage for the documentary she's making about me and my life and poetry (and needs more funding to complete):

Great article about Nguyen Phan Que Mai, the co-translator of "The Human Field," just out from Word Palace Press

New from Word Palace Press, The Human Field (in English and Vietnamese), poetry by Tran Quang Quy (available from Amazon).

MT TP TH VIT NAM NA C PHÁT HÀNH M Khi bn n lc làm vic, có nim tin và am mê cho công vic ó, mt ngày kt qu s n vi bn. Jennifer Fossen...bell và tôi ã không ch cn mt ngày, mà gn by nm bn dch tp th 'The Human Field' ca chúng tôi c ra mt M. Trong nhng nm ó, chúng tôi ã nhiu ln chau chut li bn tho, c gng bo tn nhng thông ip, cng nh tính th và tính nhc trong các tác phm ca Trn Quang Quý. Tp th va c nhà xut bn World Palace Press có tr s ti California u t in n và phát hành. Quyn sách c in trang trng vi nhng li nhn xét sau: Ngi c không th lt qua mt trang nào mà không dng li, git mình bi sc mnh và d âm ca mt hình nh, mt cm t, mt quan sát, khi nhà th Trn Quang Quý a chúng ta i khám phá nhng cnh quan kì diu, s im lng, huyên náo, và mâu thun hin din trên quê hng yêu du ca ông. ‘Du ca’ ca Trn Quang Quý là nhng bài hát v s thiêng liêng ca vn vt trong mt th gii ‘xanh lên xanh lên’; th gii mà ó ‘git m hôi truyn kip’. Nhng bn dch trong th ting Anh tuyt p và chân thc vi bn gc. Chúng t th Trn Quang Quý xung mt cánh ng ngôn t ti nguyên, ni chúng bt u mt cuc sng mi. - Nhà th Kevin Bowen (nguyên giám c Trung tâm William Joiner thuc trng H Massachusetts, ngi ã c vinh danh vi gii thng vn hoá Phan Chu Trinh cho nhng n lc thúc y giao lu vn hc Vit-M). Th Trn Quang Quý i din cho tinh hoa th h các nhà vn thi hu chin nhng ngi ã ct lên ting nói t khp lãnh th Vit Nam trong sut 42 nm qua. Vi s chuyn ng ca hai nhà th và dch gi dn dày kinh nghim, bn ting Anh ca nhng bài th này ã nm bt mt cách xut sc hàm ý ma mai sâu xa trong nhng bài th ca Trn Quang Quý. Tuyn tp này óng góp quan trng cho n lc bn b ca các nhà vn c hai bên chin tuyn hòa gii bng sc mnh ca công vic dch vn hc; và ó là mt công vic thc s cn thit. - Giáo s Bruce Weigl (nguyên ch tch Hi ng thm nh th gii thng Vn hc quc gia M). Hin tp th ang c phát hành qua h thng các nhà sách cng nh mng Amazon. Bn c quan tâm có th t mua ti ây: https://www.amazon.com/Human-Field-Tan-Quang-Q//0975465341 Cám n Jennifer, ngi bn ng tin cy ca tôi, ngi khin tôi ôi lúc t hi liu tôi có xng áng vi tình bn ca cô y. Cám n nhà th Trn Quang Quý ã cn mn tr li rt nhiu các câu hi ca chúng tôi v các bài th. Tôi bit n nhà th Paul Portuges, ngi ã n gp tôi trong bui c th ca tôi California vào hai nm trc vi li ngh rng nhà xut bn ca ông s in mt tp th t di t hình ch S. Cám n hai ngi bn ln ca Vit Nam - nhà th Kevin Bowen và nhà th Bruce Weigl - ã c bn tho và nhn xét v tp th. Và tôi hãnh din khi nhìn thy tác phm ca ha s Vn Sáng trên bìa tp th này. c nhà xut bn Palace Press u t in n, bn dch tp th phi vt qua vòng tuyn chn. Tht may mn, tt c nm thành viên trong ban biên tp ca NXB ã b phiu chn tp th này. Xin chúc mng nhà th Trn Quang Quý. Mong các tác phm ca anh tip tc a bn c n mt Vit Nam giàu bn sc vn hóa, rc r v hình nh và sâu sc v t duy sáng to.