Stephane Mallarme
Born: 1842
Died: 1898

January 19, 2002, Brooklyn, New York, USA: I have nothing to say about Mallarme. So I will look for some chance operations to generate a text. Look for an algorithm, as I walk home through the falling snow.

Descendre en silence Falling difficulties notes and la en not in bottles in Syphonie Les lions l’indolence the indolence dress pieds Maries le

January 19, 2002, Brooklyn, New York, USA: I have nothing to say about Mallarme. So I will look for some chance …

1644
Born in Ueno, 30 miles southeast of Kyoto

1656
Enters into the service a local feudal lord; begins composing haikai

1666
Left the feudal family and disappeared for five years, taking on the name Sobo

1667-71
His worked appeared in numerous anthologies; many believe he was in Kyoto studying poetry and Zen

1672
Published “The Seashell Game”, which was the record of a haiku contest he supervised

1675
Began taking on students

1676
Published “Two Poets of Edo (Tokyo)” with another poet

1676-70

I met the poet Jack Micheline in 1970 in New York City at Dr Generosity’s, a saloon at 73rd and Second on the East Side. I waited tables there and helped run a Sunday afternoon reading series and was editor and publisher of the Dr Generosity Press, which from 1969 through 1972 put out a number of books and broadsides of poetry.

Of all the poets who came through the Doctor’s doors, and the list is long and impressive, Jack was the only one who …

Mira Lohvitskaya (1869 - 1905) was unfortunately overshadowed by the great number of other Russian female poets of the twentieth century even though in the beginning of the last century her poetry was considered among the best in the genre of “female poetry”. The critics nicknamed her “the Russian Sappho” for in all her poems there seems to be one prevalent theme - the theme of love. Her poems bring to life that ancient human feeling as old as the world itself:

I …

“this place is a vortex,” says laki vazakas, the beat videographer, and i shake my head silently. yes, i answer quietly, and turn my jacket collar up a little. it is cold and dark and clear, and laki is explaining to me about cherry valley.

it is a vortex, he repeats.

maybe it’s the water up here, or maybe it’s the shape of the night. but when you consider all the exceptional energy which has gathered in and emanated from cherry valley, there’s good reason …

Ilya Ehrenburg was born in Kiev in 1891. In his youth the family moved to Moscow, where Ehrenburg was expelled from the sixth grade gymnasium for participating in a Bolshevik strike. In 1908 he emigrated to France, calling it his second Fatherland. In Paris he lived a bohemian lifestyle of a young intellectual poet. He attended poetry readings, and attended the meetings of Russian revolutionaries, including having many conversations with Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, who were living in Paris at …

Varlam Tihonovitch Shalamov was born in Vologde in 1907. The son of a priest. He was in school from the years 1926 to 1929. He was then arrested for supposedly writing against Lenin in 1929. He left prison in 1932 and was was again arrested in 1937, at the time of the great Stalinist purge, and was sent to 17 years at Kolima, a kind of concentration camp for intellectuals.

After he returned from prison, after the downfall of Stalin, he …

Yashin, whose real name was Aleksandr Yakovlevich Popov was born on the 27 of March in 1913 to a small family of peasants in a little village of Bludnovo.

In 1931 he finished school in the city of Nikolsk, he participated in his village, read a lot of books, and wrote a lot of poems. He began working in the gazettes of Vologod and Archengel, and his works began showing up around 1928. The first collection of his poetry Poems of the North …

I do not love you, this is the truth.
And not for me is your beauties splendor.
In you I love, instead, what I remember,
And the destruction of my youth.
– Lermontov, 1841

But just imagine: what a gigantic knowledge of life the twenty-six year old Lermontov had! And he’s all - creator, a real creator, and a genius! . . . Of course, art without suffering doesn’t exist.
– Vysotsky, 1980

Lermontov lived and suffered. And in the brief span of …

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