Bøger af Lenore Goodell

"Broken Garden & The Unsaid Sings," a new title from Larry Goodell, features poems from 2011 and 2012. Along with the poems all geared to read aloud are some drawings that occurred at the time of the poems. The book follows the notebooks of the poet and is the first of three new books. Digital Remains (poems of 2013) and Pieces of Heart (poems of 2014) are also newly available. Bobby Byrd says of Goodell's poems, For something like 60 years now, Larry Goodell has been the Poet of our Conscience. It's an ancient occupation, and Larry does not shirk his responsibilities. Love poems. Garden poems. Sorrow poems. Political rants. Joyful life celebrations. Wherever his quirky imagination takes us, he is always reminding of our place on this precarious Spaceship Earth as it navigates around the sun and through the universe. Enjoy his poems, always be ready to laugh out loud, but, please, pay close attention. Take heed. This is important work." Robert Creeley has said, "Larry Goodell talks a truth in terms that grab you by the ears and give you a good shake. There is generous wisdom in this genial poet, which is why the horny toads still love a hoe-down, if Larry plays the tune." And Gino Sky, the Cowboy Buddha, says, Since the "Sixties," Larry Goodell has kept that "spirit" alive. And, he continues getting stronger and more significant in his life and writings. He is a real poet. A true poet who has never once taken the academic way out. He is what we all strove for when we first started on our quests as revolutionary poets. Walt Whitman stuffed in our back pockets, Francois Villon, Emily Dickenson, John Keats, William Blake, Tillie Olsen, Rosalie Sorrels. Poetry's a revolution, and Larry's our peace-loving drum major." Bob Holman says of Larry Goodell, "Now that spoken word and performance poetry have pushed poetry back into the public eardrum, now that poetry slams and hip hop, Billy Collins and Garrison Keillor have all conspired to create a US Poetry Renaissance, dear Larry Goodell can lean back on his caterpillar legs and other poetry costumes and ask, "Where ya been?" Goodell, as unknown at 70 as he was at 20, has a half-century's worth of revolutionary poetics under his belt, and is laughing all the way to Utopia. Nobody has done more, nor been recognized less, than this Legend of Placitas, New Mexico." Judson Crews has said that Larry Goodell is "the consummate performance poet." Beatlick Press in Albuquerque is proud to present 3 new works by Larry Goodell. "Broken Garden & The Unsaid Sings," his poems from 2011 and 2012, is the first. "Digital Remains" (poems from 2013) and "Pieces of Heart" (poems from 2014) are the 2nd and 3rd releases. New from Beaklick Press.

"Free Speech Poetry is in almost every locality. It's at odds or even oblivious to traditional national or international poetry. A good part of it flourished in and out of slam renewing the Ginsberg/New American Poetry Revolution which continues on. Free Speech Poetry is vital in its reading performance lead more in larger cities, but all over I'm sure. Publish on demand services such as KDP bring books out from cooperative friends and individuals doing the typing editing layout. Locality ignites poets because of availability of live poetry events. Open readings and/or featured readers are the venue. Proliferation of poetry books by poets themselves assures locality even when poets go places exploring venues of other non-establishment poets. The locality of publication is the result of being ignored by both the East and West Coast publisher and university establishments. And there's the dive in book reading and closing of bookstores. When you get down to it, all poetry is local. A good time to co-op to the co-ops." - from final page of Commons. "No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?" - Michael Moore AMONG ALL COLORS Father of Black knowingMother of coherenceamong all colorsas the raining down of whitemixes dark umbers yellow ochresgreens of every passageof every foot walking throughto get to the springto get to the outflowto get to tanque spring reservoir of lifethe watercress and the garter snakesthe stream orchids the ditch flowingthe acequiawater of life protectorwater protector of life. /from Commons Kenneth Irby: "The completeness with which [the poems] give you and your life there on that hillside, is so rich one can live in it, with it, from the poems - they are their own reality as completely as Duncan's or Olson's or Creeley's - the myriad specific details, turns of direction of thought, uncertainties, flubs, ecstatic pitches, landscapes, touches and lacks, wants - but in such completeness and accuracy that they take one in and allow wandering there - participation? inclusion." Art Goodtimes: "He is a master reader, and you have to imagine these pieces read. No, rather performed. For Larry truly breathes shape into the words. They take on attitudes. Costumes. He is their animator, as well as originator." Jimmy Santiago Baca: "I feel fulfilled that we claim a poet here unafraid of voicing his rancor at the ruthless betrayers of the heart, and, fulfilled that he is honest not to comprise or gloss over serious concerns of our age." Joy Harjo to Larry: "Poetry isn't the property of Academe. It's an alive art --- & you prove that."