Walking in the Village was written in New York City, in Greenwich Village and beyond, in May, 2013.
June 6, 2013
Walking in the Village
March 4, 2013
September 3, 2012
Monkeys on the Temple Steps
Monkeys on the Temple Steps is a small collection of poems, written after I got back from India in 1993.
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July 7, 2012
Famous Lost Words
Famous Lost Words is a compilation of quotations from famous people who might have had a temporary loss of memory and were forced to invent new ways of saying what they were famous for saying.
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Practically Advice
Practically Advice is a collection of phrases, lines, and aphorisms. It follows Never Mind, Gertrude Stein in that regard.
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October 29, 2011
Walking in Asheville
Walking in Asheville is poems and photographs, composed in Asheville, North Carolina, in the summer of 2011. It bears a resemblance to San Francisco Snapshots and Walking in Ellensburg, also availiable on this site.
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Walking in Asheville: with photos
Walking in Asheville: Text Only
December 21, 2010
The Chair Outside the Door
The Chair Outside the Door is a book of 26 poems, originally written as “Sonnets to Rilke”, after his “Sonnets to Orpheus.”
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September 12, 2010
On Board the Victoria Clipper
On Board the Victoria Clipper is a collection of impressions written aboard the Victoria Clipper from Seattle to Victoria, BC.
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September 9, 2010
July 28, 2010
The Ocean in a Bottle
“The Ocean in a Bottle” is a small collection of poems that was my part of the poetry anthology “Five on the Western Edge,” from Momo’s Press (Stephen Vincent), published in ’77. Included in the anthology were myself (as Steve Brooks) Stephen Vincent, Hilton Obenzinger, Beau Beausoleil, and Larry Felson. It was Stephen’s idea that we, a diverse group of male poets, writing in the Seventies, would get together for a year before publication, talk, hash out, and mull over our various ways of living as writers in relationship with others and the world. It was a noble idea, but there wasn’t much open talk among us, as there might have been if Dr. Phil were present, but he wasn’t. Stephen wanted to call the book, “Five Disturbed Men,” but that was roundly rejected. Later, in my poetry satire, “The Blood and Turnips Poetry Festival”, I parodied that idea as “Five Disturbed Men on the Brink of Disaster.” I’ve reconnected with the others on facebook, but we are all as terse as ever in our non-confessional maleness. Poetry may be, as Stéphane Mallarmé, I think, once said, a way of saying what one has difficulty feeling, but open discourse is another matter, altogether.
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