The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Sunday, June 25, 2017

New book from Rome: Where to Dig, and How Far Down

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Portland, June 25, 2017— P UBLISHED , HERE AT peripatetic Ear Press: Where to Dig, and How Far Down , an 80-page paperbound book containi...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Más poesía

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Portland, Oregon, June 22, 2017— A FRIEND WROTE of this photo, which I don't particularly like, that it made me look like a Latin-Am...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

EIGHTS AND TWOS FOR LINDSEY ON HER 82d

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Eastside Road, June 10, 2017— which fell in fact on the seventh Great day! Though the days grow short: busy suns       rise, set ...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Cats

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Eastside Road, June 9, 2017— Thomas McNamee: The Inner Life of Cats New York: Hachette, 2017 pp. 278      read 6/5/17 Carl Van Vech...
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Sunday, June 04, 2017

Book not written

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Eastside Road, June 4, 2017— I N  M ARCH , 1970, I thought about writing a book, whose chapters would be 1: 31 for Henry Flynt 2: Bottle...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Light Reading; Close Reading

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Eastside Road, May 30, 2017— Jean Rhys: Sleep It Off, Lady New York: Harper and Row, 1976 ISBN 0-06-13572-7 pp. 176      read 5/27/17 ...
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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Richard Diebenkorn

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Eastside Road, May 27, 2017— Letter to an Italian friend Matisse/Diebenkorn San Francisco Museum of Modern Art March 17-May 29 2017 ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Space, measure, and markings

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I   THINK OF space, measure, marks, and accent. Why? Partly because I live in this landscape: except when traveling, it is my everyday c...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Sixes and tens for Lindsey on our anniversary

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Lindsey at the Erickson Gallery, Healdsburg Sixes and tens for Lindsey on our anniversary Grow old along with me! The best is ye...
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Sunday, May 07, 2017

Approaching Africa

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Eastside Road, May 7, 2017— Ilja Leonardo Pfeijffer: La Superba   (tr. Michele Hutchison) Albert Camus: L'Etranger Kamel Daoud:   ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Rome, 14: The controllers of destiny

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Eastside Road, April 30, 2017— T ESTACCIO IS A QUARTER of Rome across the river from Trastevere and south of the Aventine hill, a quarter...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Rome, 13: The toy boat

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Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 26, 2017— Via Damaso Cerquetti, Rome, April 25, 2017— P ROPRIETY AND THE APPROPRIATE pace of intended decay-...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Rome, 12: Parva. sed apta mihi

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In the Coppedè Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 25, 2017— O N THE OTHER HAND , if you are going to build palaces, why not build the...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Rome, 11: Palaces and storerooms

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Via Damaso Cerquetti, Rome, April 22, 2017— I   THINK IT BETTER to plant gardens than build palaces, as I’ve written here before, becaus...
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