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@valpergalit 2 күн бұрын
Definitely gonna check out Greenwell. I also picked up a copy of Vox based on your love for Nicholson Baker. Thanks for the great recs as always!
@leafyconcern 2 күн бұрын
@@valpergalit vox more of a challenging start than some others, but it’s still absolutely great. Happy reading!
@vf00 2 күн бұрын
You sound like you would be a good tenor in a barbershop quartet
@leafyconcern 2 күн бұрын
@@vf00 I’m flattered that you say this!
@vf00 Күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern No prob! I've added Small Rain to my to be read list. Have you read Taipei by Tao Lin?
@leafyconcern Күн бұрын
@@vf00 yes I have and I loved it. I liked it even more than I thought I would
@vf00 Күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern I just finished it! It's great, yeah. I feel like it was even better because I've been to Taipei. I'm thinking of the novel he published recently next. Thanks for being a conduit of great books
@leafyconcern Күн бұрын
@@vf00 you’re very welcome! It’s comments like yours that encourage me to keep making videos and sharing this stuff with you/y’all
@teddouglas7874 8 күн бұрын
my gut gives this video a 3-D feel...I'd never seen film of me writing a poem...it's the miracle of birth! I like the "post-credits" feel of the final seconds...
@leafyconcern 8 күн бұрын
Thanks thax! That night you had identical triplets (the original, and the two copies for Gautama and me).
@CruelSpirit 8 күн бұрын
Woah, so I started watching this and within the first few minutes had a crazy realization. I was at a VFW show in Madison a few months back, my first time seeing a local DIY show in Madison, and I realized I've seen Thax before. He came up on stage and introduced the bands. I assumed he was just a cool regular from the VFW and didn't realize he had a reputation for this. How cool for my worlds of interests to collide in such an unexpected way. That show was one of the coolest I've been to this year and Thax was definitely a part of that, alongside the wood paneled VFW and $2 Hamm's. Thank you leafy for offering me more insight into why that night was so special. PS. I also saw a guy at that show who was dressed exactly like David Foster Wallace, bandana and all. A surreal and quite literary experience on the live stage.
@valpergalit 9 күн бұрын
Legendary face reveal! This video is a work of art.
@ShannonConnor0 9 күн бұрын
thank you for the demonstration of the process
@leafyconcern 9 күн бұрын
That was Thax's idea
@augustmcwake 9 күн бұрын
This is INCREDIBLE!!! Thank you for capturing this conversation with Thax. This feels important!
@davidhall8656 9 күн бұрын
Fun!!!
@joserogan7794 9 күн бұрын
I always suspected you were Sufjan Stevens
@errata9968 9 күн бұрын
This was great! Really enjoyed the conversation, insight to the creative process. And the double reveal, name and face, wow.
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 12 күн бұрын
So many books and so little time. Happy reading to you.
@leafyconcern 12 күн бұрын
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk thanks for the wishes!
@TheBookedEscapePlan 16 күн бұрын
Our overlap in taste and interest is uncanny. I also love Cynthia Ozick and Max Sebald and Robertson Davies and Saul Bellow and Ray Carver (and that particular line of Vintage Contemporaries and also keep them all together). Also, that Deborah Eisenberg paperback on the shelf above is a book I carried around for nearly two years straight, and it is one of my most memorable reading experiences. I spent a lot of time in a laundry room in a trailer park with that book. "Hind's Kidnap" is an amazing book, but it does demand your fullest and prolonged attention. All of McElroy's novels are like that. I don't know what my favorite McElroy book is; they are all so different from each other. I'm tempted to say "Smuggler's Bible," but "Lookout Cartridge" is so pitch-perfect; and "Women and Men" is so involving and ambitious and has so many memorable features. "I really like 'To Live' " is a very funny sentence, by the way.
@leafyconcern 16 күн бұрын
@@TheBookedEscapePlan gosh, we’re a perfect match! Pay no mind as I google “trailer park laundry rooms near me” (I’ve got a date with Deb). These writers are just really good. Davies never ceases to amaze me, honestly. “A Voice From The Attic” is one of the warmest and most companionable books I’ve ever happened upon.
@TheBookedEscapePlan 16 күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern His novels are so rich and fun, and his essays I would agree do have a warmth and thoughtfulness to them. Have you read his collection, "The Merry Heart"? The title does well to capture that tone characteristic of Davies' essays.
@leafyconcern 16 күн бұрын
@@TheBookedEscapePlan haven’t read that one yet. Am very excited to!
@TheBookedEscapePlan 17 күн бұрын
"The jeweler's eye": that's a compelling image. I do feel like, when I am really enjoying a work, that is the frame of mind I tend towards. I'll be reading a work - a novel, let's say - and early on I will get the sense that I am invested enough, and care enough, that I want to analyze the work at that microscopic level where I am seeing what the paragraphs are for, the sentences, the diction; the rhythm of the language and the patterning of the images.
@leafyconcern 17 күн бұрын
@@TheBookedEscapePlan patterning of images is something I’ve always wanted to try doing by making my own index in the back of a book I love, like in the back of Pereira Maintains or The Scarlet Letter.
@TheBookedEscapePlan 16 күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern It is a lot of fun, and you learn a lot about a given book doing it. It almost feels like studying a piece of music. I remember having fun with J R because there is so little in the book that isn't dialogue, so it felt especially purposeful that the slim amount of prose in the book tends to be filled with references to angles of light and to limbs - both human and tree.
@aaronfacer 18 күн бұрын
Great haul! A million books is just the right number.
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
@@aaronfacer I happen to agree with you
@jamesduggan7200 18 күн бұрын
That image of the card in the bike's tyre in Churchgoing has stayed with me a long time. There's a discotheque (at least there was once idk what's become of it since...) that was a church once, and of course Alice's restaurant also centers on a converted church. I guess we can say that we know what will become of the churches. It's a great poem and Larkin is a great poet.
@leafyconcern 17 күн бұрын
@@jamesduggan7200 thank you for this thoughtful comment. A church building just got bought near where I live. I wonder what they’ll turn it into. Since they’re such good acoustic spaces, I hope they can be used for music. Choirs should sing in them. I look forward to reading that Larkin poem. Thanks again for watching and commenting.
@apoetreadstowrite 18 күн бұрын
Ashbery is terrific; difficult but so essential... Hunky John indeed!
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
@@apoetreadstowrite you’re seein what I’m seein
@apoetreadstowrite 18 күн бұрын
Really excited to have discovered your channel, another poetry enthusiast is always a welcome hoard, & well done on the haul, you have some great poetry there.
@errata9968 18 күн бұрын
I recently finished reading Larkin’s Letters to Monica, really enjoyed being in that late forties, fifties, sixties world. Great haul by the way.
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
@@errata9968 great! I want to read that too
@kintrap5376 18 күн бұрын
What you said of Larkin-have you read much Carol Anne Duffy? You very well may have talked about her before, but I don’t remember.
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
@@kintrap5376 no I haven’t! But I’m intrigued. Should I grab a book of hers? If so which one? I just tried to click on her poem “Warming her pearls” on the poetry foundation site but I got a message that says “that poem is currently unavailable.”
@kintrap5376 18 күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern it’s been a long time since I’ve read her, and it was in some slim selection of her poetry. I distinctly remember my impression of her style as being, like you said of Larkin, a little more naturalistic/colloquial. I think she constructs language more simply, while still being able to construct meanings complexly, which is definitely impressive. In all honesty, though, she has never been super exciting to me, but it’s apparent that she had quite an effect on other readers. I’m definitely a ‘hit-me-with-the-weirdest-language-you-can’ kind of reader. If you ever do get into her, I’d love to get your thoughts!
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
@@kintrap5376 I highly appreciate this recommendation. If you remember what the selection was, lemme know. I’m gonna look out for Carol Ann Duffy.
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
Anne*
@kintrap5376 17 күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern Looks like the one I had was the 2009 Penguin, not that its any better or worse than the others :)
@theonlyrealproperty2567 19 күн бұрын
I really enjoy the way you discuss your books. Thank you.
@leafyconcern 18 күн бұрын
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 im glad you enjoy! I like your videos too. More to come.
@InfiniteText 19 күн бұрын
Larkin is among my top 5 favourite librarians. That's a solid haul. Goodwill for the win!
@Jason-o5s 19 күн бұрын
Cheer~~a system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces or 7,000 grains, widely used in English-speaking countries.???😢
@leafyconcern 19 күн бұрын
@@Jason-o5s where’d you find out about this?
@davidhall8656 22 күн бұрын
I am a big mingus fan, read his book maybe 25 yrs ago but dont remember mich of it. Some of the graphic sexual technique descriptions were offputting, but the anecdote of mingus gett8ng kicked out of Ellington band for fighting a trombone player. Of jazz autobios, my favorite is probably Raise Up Off Me by Hampton Hawes.
@leafyconcern 22 күн бұрын
@@davidhall8656 thank you for this recommendation. I would love to get my hands on that one.
@davidhall8656 22 күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern even by jazz great standards, hamp led an incredible life. If you are unfamiliar with his playing, I recommend the album For Real! Scott laFaro on bass!
@leafyconcern 22 күн бұрын
@@davidhall8656 Scott lafaro is a legend! Such a tragic loss when he died. I gotta hear this. Thank you.
@kintrap5376 23 күн бұрын
Do you ever wear electronic wristwatches? My father apparently could never wear them because something about his skin or body would cause the batteries to corrode within a few days.
@kintrap5376 23 күн бұрын
(Also, fantastic video. Would be so on-board with more of this kind, especially, even, that random forced comparison idea.)
@leafyconcern 22 күн бұрын
@@kintrap5376 I may try to do more of that! Re: the corrosion, I wouldn’t put it past skin to be capable of such chemical action
@phoebemelrose 23 күн бұрын
I’m glad your cat is safe. Always a good day when you post
@leafyconcern 23 күн бұрын
Thank you. It was a huge relief when he was back in the house, dozing off.
@saskias24 25 күн бұрын
So glad I came across this channel! Just ordered a copy and I can't wait to start reading!
@leafyconcern 25 күн бұрын
@@saskias24 my goodness that’s amazing news! Hi, welcome! Hope you enjoy the magazine!
@henriqueribeiro248 27 күн бұрын
congrats on 1k :)
@leafyconcern 27 күн бұрын
@@henriqueribeiro248 thank you! Have a nice day today 🌅
@jadesalade4194 28 күн бұрын
I had to study this for my exam last week, so sad I didn't find this earlier!
@leafyconcern 28 күн бұрын
@@jadesalade4194 luckily it’s online forever! You have your priorities in order :)
@zzflvr 28 күн бұрын
congrats on 1k
@leafyconcern 28 күн бұрын
@@zzflvr thanks
@CruelSpirit 29 күн бұрын
Congrats on 1K! What a beautiful publication. Do they have any plans of getting it in any local Chicago retailers? Quimby's?
@leafyconcern 29 күн бұрын
Hey, thank you! I really dig the design. Super readable and inviting, in my opinion. From the publisher (Morley): "I'll get it in quimby's soon and some other places. For now, it's available online, or irl at Inga Books in Chicago." Inga Books is at 1740 w 18th St. Thank you again for watching and commenting -- I hope you enjoy Mouse, and I am excited to hear what you think of it!
@CruelSpirit 29 күн бұрын
@@leafyconcern Thank you. I'll be on the lookout around the city.
@ninoalejandrodinglasan8610 Ай бұрын
Do you have a dostoevsky collection? If there is I would love to see them and know your thoughts about, Thank you!
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@ninoalejandrodinglasan8610 on it! (edit 8/30/24: I've never really consciously collected Dostoevsky like I've collected Nabokov, Agee, Ashbery, or Nicholson Baker, but it turns out I have like 5 or 6 of his books and a few of those I have pretty strong associations / reading experiences with! This bodes well for the possibility of a video.)
@TheBookedEscapePlan Ай бұрын
I will certainly be ordering a copy of Mouse, Mr. Concern. l I'm very excited for some of the stuff in there, and especially anything worth comparing to Robert Walser. I got really excited a couple of years ago for Nadja Spiegelman's Astra Magazine and picked up the first two issues each the day they came out at the only independent bookstore in Phoenix, and then the magazine folded. So this will help fill that void.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
Absolutely righteous! Mouse is in Walser's family, for sure. We study him assiduously -- that's our fun. I'm interested in Astra. Did you make any cool author discoveries in that first issue?
@TheBookedEscapePlan Ай бұрын
@@leafyconcern Robert Walser was an incredible writer. When you ask if I made any new discoveries in the first issue, are you referring to Mouse, or Astra? The answer I suppose is yes to both, though I haven't received my copy of Mouse yet. There was a sample of Maggie Millner's "Couplets" in the first issue of Astra and that's how I discovered her. My favorite piece in the magazine by far was one by Elif Batuman, who was the opposite of new to me - she was a familiar face - but it was nice to see a nonfiction piece from her since I associate her with her debut book rather than her novels (which are also good). Did either of you ever read issues of Caketrain while it was still being printed? Very oddball stuff - difficult to categorize. A lot of fun to read.
@leafyconcern 29 күн бұрын
@@TheBookedEscapePlan No, I hadn't even heard of Caketrain before reading this comment. Their website is alluringly sparse. I thought about clicking on "How 2 trade cryptocurrency" and "Best online casinos" but ended up not clicking on those links. Seems like a magazine with a robust sense of humor. Thanks for the rec.
@theonlyrealproperty2567 Ай бұрын
I’m halfway through this video and I realise that I need to make notes because there are so many interesting books and information. Thank you! Your channel goals are superb. Enjoying while not fully understanding- yes.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 it’s really just the way it’s always gotta be. What I come to understand, I share with leafy viewers.
@theonlyrealproperty2567 Ай бұрын
Wait …. an ASHBERY SHELF?????!!!!!!!! I am so happy to find you.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 yay! And I’m lucky you’re here too! Ya might say “the poem has set me softly down beside you” (paradoxes n oxymorons)
@theonlyrealproperty2567 Ай бұрын
OMG I am so excited to have found your channel (via Ruben’s tag list) - A Bernadette Mayer unboxing!!!! I actually quote from this book for my tag video (beauty of first lines). SUBSCRIBED 😊
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 Omg hello and welcome, new friend! I love this stuff. Where can I see Ruben’s tag list? I wanna make sure I follow up on that
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
Never mind -- I found it! Watching your video now
@errata9968 Ай бұрын
Congratulations on 1k and here’s to the next thousand.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@errata9968 thank you! Onward and upward. Yeah, I was happy to get the chance to talk about mouse mag (autocorrects to “mouse magic”) on this special occasion
@PaperBird Ай бұрын
Awesome sleuthing! studying Ashbery, time well spent 😌
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
Thank! I plan to spend many more hours contentedly doing this.
@dylanmcdermott1110 Ай бұрын
I know very little about poetry, especially contemporary, but so far John Ashbery and Anne Carson are the two I'm most interested in. Where would you recommend starting in his career?
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@dylanmcdermott1110 I recommend starting with the Selected Poems (the one with the marbled cover) because it’ll allow you to sample from the collections I’d most recommend: “Rivers and Mountains,” “The Double Dream of Spring,” “Shadow Train,” etc. so many of those early poems are just flat-out beautiful in a way it’s tough to put your finger on and imitate (though so many try). I think an underrated good place to start with him would be his book “Other Traditions” - because that will not only give you an insight into his poetic concerns, but it’ll also introduce you to other greats like John Clare and Laura Riding. Lastly I’d like to say that it’s very fun and rewarding to poke through any collection of his for the poems that feel most straightforward to you - I did that with “A Worldly Country” and ended up loving “The Ecstasy” and “A Perfect Hat” in a way that changed my poem-reading life. So no matter which collection or book you end up with, if you’re willing to while away a cozy half-hour relishing some and skipping others, I’m sure you’ll be able to promptly find a personal selection of his poems that will speak clearly to you. Also: Anne Carson is in my top 10 favorite poets because of “Glass, Irony, and God,” a book that I think is very underrated and worth revisiting by everyone who can stand even the slightest amount of poetry. Thank you for watching!
@dylanmcdermott1110 Ай бұрын
@@leafyconcern Thank you!
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
This is an underrated pamphlet
@kintrap5376 Ай бұрын
When you say of Robert Lax that he consistently gives you the 'top of head taken off feeling', you echo what Dickinson said in a letter, about poetry: "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." Were you referencing this directly? It's a great way to express what poetry can do! :) Lovely video as always.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@kintrap5376 thank you! Yes, I was referencing that immortal little quote
@TheBookedEscapePlan Ай бұрын
This book is a really wild book. I first read it while reading a book on historiography, and the author cited Ginzburg's book as a well-known example of a work influential in the development of what we now call Cultural History. I was also motivated to read it because the history of the Reformation fascinates me endlessly. As an enthusiast for good literary magazines, this is the first I am hearing about "Mouse." I'm very eager to learn more about it.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
Man, you are gonna LOVE my next video (a four-hour walk-through of Mouse's beautiful new print issue). To prep for watching that vid, check out mouse's webpage: www . mouse-magazine . com
@TheBookedEscapePlan Ай бұрын
I think it's funny how divisive "Tennis Court Oath" was when it was published because I personally love the book. But it is a really, really weird book, even for Ashbery. (I have the same "Hunky John," as you call it; it fits in the pocket well.) "Some Trees" is one of my favorite Ashbery books. I personally like the recent line of Yale reprints. I'm really surprised you don't like them. They are very nicely designed. I don't know that I could commit to a favorite Ashbery book; some of them are so different from each other. But "Some Trees" holds as very special place in my heart, and I was first able to read it thanks to those Yale reprints.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@TheBookedEscapePlan you make a good point about how the reprints are a good way to increase accessibility to great collections like ST. I just didn’t like the rounded edges and the excess of text on the cover and the many different fonts and the large year number. Same exact book without the big years would have been a big yes from me. As it stands it’s just an unenthusiastic yes
@PaperBird Ай бұрын
congrats on the finds! go for Flow Chart if you see it
@TheBookedEscapePlan Ай бұрын
Flow Chart is so absorbing.
@kintrap5376 Ай бұрын
“I never understand anything I read. That’s why I often prefer to read things where understanding it is out of the question.” Dude, same.
@marinellamaccagni6951 Ай бұрын
I was waiting for this for so many years! Thanks!
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@marinellamaccagni6951 wow! I’ll do this more often then
@matthewsapio4863 Ай бұрын
You might like his translation of Rimbaud's Illuminations.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@matthewsapio4863 looking for a copy of that right now
@joshuacreboreads Ай бұрын
Cool video! I own the library America volume 1 edition. As yet, I have only sampled him. His poetry can be so difficult, but so rewarding too!
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
I agree. For what it's worth, I also recommend Anthony Madrid, Anne Waldman, Wang Wei, Basho, Robert Frost, and Paul Muldoon.
@joshuacreboreads Ай бұрын
Madrid, Waldman, and Wei are all new names to me! I will check them out. 😃
@aaronfacer Ай бұрын
Great finds! I wanted to know that I picked up my first ever book of Ashberry's poetry just the other day, based at least partly on your enthusiasm for him in your videos. I'm very much looking forward to diving in.
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@aaronfacer enjoy! Which one did you get?
@aaronfacer Ай бұрын
@@leafyconcern I picked up the 1985 Selected Poems. Hopefully that will be enough to get me started!
@leafyconcern Ай бұрын
@@aaronfacer that’s the second book I got. Started with worldly country and then got the selected. That’s a perfect place to start.
@donaldkelly3983 2 ай бұрын
I have that edition of Bishop's poetry and the fiction collection! To me, Bishop could walk on water. And I loved the stories. Long live Ms. Bishop!
@leafyconcern 2 ай бұрын
@@donaldkelly3983 yes, long live EB
@launfalmusic 2 ай бұрын
Peter Mendelsund has the best modern covers! When I was working at a bookshop it became a joke among the booksellers that if there was a cover we all liked, we'd flip it over and see, oh, yep, another Mendelsund.
@leafyconcern 2 ай бұрын
@@launfalmusic that’s been my experience as a customer, too!