"For this secret flame I extinguish the world, / I burn up all that is living without love" Octavio Paz

"Solnit sees the photos as sly commentary on human capacity to memory-hole humanity’s destruction of the environment. The Bay, she writes, is 'the region’s half-forgotten heart'": @mathitak on CARGO photos by Richard Misrach @aperturefnd bit.ly/4hMgAAu @On_The_Seawall

In my "Book Notes" column I say a few things about Rae Armantrout's SAFE ROOMS, John Yau's DIARY OF SMALL DISCONTENTS @Omnidawn & Anna Zumbahlen's SURETY @InlandiaInst bit.ly/4AZLCOa @On_The_Seawall

“I’m not anti-cerebral. I’m anti-only-cerebral & I’m not here to be some poetry mall cop terrorizing people on my Segway — poets should disregard opinions that don’t help them make their work”: @ThatAncientKiss in convo w/Joy Priest via @On_The_Seawall ronslate.com/41861-2/

"He views literacy as the foundation of liberal democracy; if the foundation crumbles, the edifice collapses. The shift away from print has stoked a broader crisis": @HamiltonCain on THE NEW DARK AGES by James Marriott @doubledaybooks @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/4yDXzaD

The October quarterly edition of @On_The_Seawall has landed for your enjoyment. Stop in at our gallery & take a look. ronslate.com

The October quarterly edition of @On_The_Seawall will drop tomorrow around 12 noon ET.

In architecture school, they teach you that a person can survive a leap from a window no higher than the 3rd floor. But who is teaching this to the leapers?

Beware of buying anything from the electronic retailer Telorix. They're thieves w/a long record of buyer complaints. I'm working with/my state's AG office to investigate. They keep their US office address hidden.

A pleasure to read/write about Alyce Mahon's DOROTHEA TANNING: A SURREALIST WORLD @yalepress -- I had forgotten she published her first book of poems at age 94 / bit.ly/4h34vIc via @On_The_Seawall

"She urges all who live in one language  to recognize that our seeming linguistic purity or separateness is only an inability to see the differences that inhere between & within languages": @ds228 on EXOPHANY by Yoko Tawada @NewDirections @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/4wvxE3k

"Graham writes from within a world where catastrophe no longer announces itself as event & instead settles ... into the very medium through which perception itself must now pass": Jeffrey Levine on @jorie_graham's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton bit.ly/44ib5Da @On_The_Seawall

The July quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Please stop by the gallery for a look. Our feature is Jeffrey Levine's essay on @jorie_graham's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton ronslate.com

My poem "L'Etat C'Est Moi" is up at my Substack ... ronslate.substack.com/p/leta…

Over at my Substack, you can read "Larger Than Life [at the Observatory], short lyric prose. Free subscription. ronslate.substack.com/p/larg…

At my Substack, a short essay on encountering the a-bombing of Nagasaki while at the deli counter / substack.com/home/post/p-196…

One of the most-read reviews @On_The_Seawall is a piece I wrote in 2008 about Roberto Bolaño's evolution as a writer and his poetry in THE ROMANTIC DOGS. April 28th = his birthday ronslate.com/on-the-romantic…

I've started a Substack for brief reviews of titles I can't cover for @On_The_Seawall -- starting with one about Martin Walker's latest Bruno mystery AN ENEMY IN THE VILLAGE @fsgbooks / & I'll be writing on other topcs as well / substack.com/profile/1810368…

"Perhaps the 'secret' of Dylan’s late stage creativity resides in his ability to store & process an enormous database about himself & the history of American folk music": Barry Faulk reviews @Fantomas2go's AFTER THE FLOOD @wwnorton @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/4sTCRj2

"Kertész was wincingly aware of what he saw as his artistic misfortune & neglect, but by posthumously landing Albers as his biographer, he’s gotten lucky": @bquinnterest on Patricia Albers' EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH @otherpress bit.ly/4u3rW7y @On_The_Seawall

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