Geof Huth's Blog, page 53
August 15, 2010
August 10, 2010
Without Words
Marriott Wardman Park, Room 4092, Washington, DC
I am never without words. They fill me daily, even as I expel them. I carry inside of me a swarming mass of them, sometimes with a couple of them twisted together so I can't tell one from the other. I draw them onto pages. I draw them out into the open. I sing them to myself or my yard, to my dogs dazed by the sound of them. I move letters around on the screen until I see them even if they are not there. I write them down onto a screen so they w...
I am never without words. They fill me daily, even as I expel them. I carry inside of me a swarming mass of them, sometimes with a couple of them twisted together so I can't tell one from the other. I draw them onto pages. I draw them out into the open. I sing them to myself or my yard, to my dogs dazed by the sound of them. I move letters around on the screen until I see them even if they are not there. I write them down onto a screen so they w...
August 8, 2010
Possibly Somewhere
A handsome little book arrived at my house yesterday, and I wrote the blurb:
Absolute Elsewhere is exactly where you are, in a world filled with images you've never seen before and words you would never have imagined. This is your world, your earth, where the photographs by Simon Taylor almost match the poetry of James Davies, and vice versa, but the surprise is in the misalignments between the two, in the human and earthly incongruities of the world before you. This is a world a little ...
August 6, 2010
August 4, 2010
Words in the Shape of Morning
on the New York State Thruway
I'm writing this in a car, in my lap, with a laptop on my lap, its keys illuminated under my fingertips.
Three of us are driving towards morning and hoping to beat it. My colleague Dave and I began our commute home on Fishers Island, about eleven miles from Orient Point, the point farthest east on the north fork of Long Island, but a trip of almost an hour and a half by ferry. Imagining the horrors of hitting rush hour heading west off Long Island, we retrieved...
I'm writing this in a car, in my lap, with a laptop on my lap, its keys illuminated under my fingertips.
Three of us are driving towards morning and hoping to beat it. My colleague Dave and I began our commute home on Fishers Island, about eleven miles from Orient Point, the point farthest east on the north fork of Long Island, but a trip of almost an hour and a half by ferry. Imagining the horrors of hitting rush hour heading west off Long Island, we retrieved...
August 3, 2010
Words in the Shape of Night
Townsend Manor Inn, Room 49, Greenport, New York
A week after staying near the tip of the south fork of Long Island, Nancy and I are staying near the tip of the north fork. Tomorrow, I travel from Orient Point, at the very northern tip of the island to Fischers Island, a far outpost New York State, with a zipcode like those of New England, and nine miles closer to Connecticut than it is to the closest eastern tip of New York.Out at these ends of the earth, where land spills into the sea and...
A week after staying near the tip of the south fork of Long Island, Nancy and I are staying near the tip of the north fork. Tomorrow, I travel from Orient Point, at the very northern tip of the island to Fischers Island, a far outpost New York State, with a zipcode like those of New England, and nine miles closer to Connecticut than it is to the closest eastern tip of New York.Out at these ends of the earth, where land spills into the sea and...
August 2, 2010
Films Watched in July 2010
Sure, we watched twenty-two films this past month, but this include a higher-than-average number of shorts, and we were doing plenty of traveling. Not sure we'll get up to the double digits even for the current month.
July 1, 2010
1. Frozen River (97 min, Courtney Hunt, 2008)
July 4, 2010
2. Betsy's Wedding (94 min, Alan Alda, 1990)
July 5, 2010
3. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (110 min, Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)
July 6, 2010
4. Zombie Cult Massacre (ca 90 min, Jeff Dunn, 1998)
July 8, 2010
5. Secretary (1...
July 1, 2010
1. Frozen River (97 min, Courtney Hunt, 2008)
July 4, 2010
2. Betsy's Wedding (94 min, Alan Alda, 1990)
July 5, 2010
3. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (110 min, Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)
July 6, 2010
4. Zombie Cult Massacre (ca 90 min, Jeff Dunn, 1998)
July 8, 2010
5. Secretary (1...
August 1, 2010
Books Read in July 2010
July's month of book reading, which includes at least seven graphic novels, was a little light, only 26 books in 31 days, but I am still almost two months' worth of reading ahead of where I need to be at this point in time. And I have quite a few new books I picked up at the Boston Poet Tea Party this weekend.
July 4, 2010
1. O'Malley, Bryan Lee. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1. Oni Press: Portland, Ore., 2004.
2. span
At the Boston Poet Tea Party
DoubleTree Guest Suites, Room 1006, Boston, Massachusetts
Today is the last day of the Boston Poetry Tea Party, a poetry marathon organized by Jim Behrle with a number of local folks from this area. I know most of them, including our good friend Aaron Tieger, since Boston is, historically, the area where I've had the most contact with the poetry community. I've given as many readings within three miles of here as I have in all of New York State. And this community is big enough to bring out a...
Today is the last day of the Boston Poetry Tea Party, a poetry marathon organized by Jim Behrle with a number of local folks from this area. I know most of them, including our good friend Aaron Tieger, since Boston is, historically, the area where I've had the most contact with the poetry community. I've given as many readings within three miles of here as I have in all of New York State. And this community is big enough to bring out a...
