The Eastside View

(reposted, with edits, from January 28, 2010) T HE EARLIEST PIECES of mine that I still like to think of, Three Pieces for Piano , were ...

In flight, October 26, 2017— Dickens, adapted by Mike Poulton: A Tale of Two Cities , directed by Geoff Elliott & Julia Rodriguez-E...

Eastside Road, October 5, 2017— j UST FOR FUN , and because I've just run across it, a transcription made by I know not who of remarks...

F ROM SOME TIME in 1966, this rather breathless and no doubt far too dense summary of what I had then come to believe: The important thin...

Highway 101, September 11, 2017— S OMETIMES WHILE DRIVING or riding on these car trips silly verse jumps into my mind: 1. An ant is on...

Eastside Road, August 27, 2017— Ali A. Rizvi: The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason New York: St. Martin's Press, 20...

1968: from Calls and Singing Note beginning the pocket calendar for 1968:   and, later in the calendar, do string orchestra piece on E, ...

A   FEW READERS have responded to the previous post, offering a draft version of the first section of a new memoir, with comments and in s...

I HAVE BEEN BUSY writing further in my memoir — "further," because I've already published a volume covering my first thirty ...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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