reading list

these are the books i am reading at present.

lush life- richard price. this guy wrote "clockers" and wrote/writes for the series "the wire". pretty good crime story set in the lower east side of manhattan a few years ago.

meyerhold at work- a collection of russian theatre director v. meyerhold's letters and notes. myerhold was killed in one of the stalinist purges of the 1930's. boo on that cuz he was a genius and a visionary.

the trojan women- i am reading lattimore's translation, trying to make myself adapt it for production here in charlotte but i am rapidly losing interest.

they cannot compare to the dogs in here who make me wander out into the dark. wandering out onto a slab of dusty rock in the late night or early morning, looking for spiritual violence looking for water or sleep. red rimmed horizon stretching into a harsh and shameful daylight. i am standing, antsy on the rocks, our quadrant still layered in night. still humming with dark and silent energies while the suns bright band races into our country.

i just want a house in the mountains. i want to sit by the fire and read with my wife. and then, on my terms, not as a complusive behavior, to make art. this is what i see when i see my quiet and most happy future.

and until then it is desert nightmares and ropey, sandled, bellicose demons manning the concierge's booth here in aisle 8, or the wild wild west.