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Strafford Notes 8 April, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013 9:23:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Home opener at Fenway today. That's a poem inn itself.....

April 8
Events:
April 8 Concord -Gibson’s poetry month celebration{ annual POETRY MONTH BOOK CLUB meeting. This year we're hosting our own version of the FAVORITE POEM PROJECT. All are welcome.. http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/gbc-celebrates-national-poetry-month
ENTERTAINMENT, Coming –Up :
April 20--Deerfield COFFEE HOUSE, 7:30pm Dave Surrette and Suzie Burke
Deerfield Town Hall, 7:30 pm 603-463-9804 or leslie.vanberkumnursery.com for more info
Born:
0408
Gautama Buddha (0563 –? /0483) Indian spiritual leader
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/buddha.htm
Alfred Jarry (1873-Nov.1, 1907) French writer / forerunner of the Theatre of Absurd
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ajarry.htm
Mary Pickford Gladys Louise Smith(1893-05/29/1979) US actress (Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs) http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/marypickford.html
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=56170
Capt. Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894- June 10, 1972) US science fiction author, and children's author.
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/meek_s_p
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26989/26989-h/26989-h.htm
Isidore Hochberg (Edgar) Yip Harburg, (1896 – 03/05/1981) American lyricist- Oscar, shared with Harold Arlen, for Best Music, Original Song for "The Wizard of Oz", (1939). "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1932), "April in Paris" (1932), and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (1939)
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C14
Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra 1898 –1971 China-born English writer
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Cecil%20M.%20Bowra&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ACecil%20M.%20Bowra
http://byron.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/digital/foundation%20lectures/bowra.html
John Fante (1909-1983) American depression-era novelist Ask the Dust (1939), Full of Life (1952), Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/john-fante/
http://www.amazon.com/John-Fante/e/B000APENKS/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
E.M. [ Émile Michel] Cioran, 1911-June 20,1995, Romanian /Fr. philosopher, aphorist, and essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cioran.htm
Robert Giroux, (1914- ) U.S. editor and publisher discovered author Jean Stafford. Later, he discovered Bernard Malamud, and published Malamud's first novel, The Natural, in 1952. Other authors he edited in his long career include Carl Sandburg, Flannery O' Connor, Jack Kerouac, and T.S. Eliot
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/books/06giroux.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Glendon Swarthout, (1918 –Sept 23, 1992) American author
http://www.glendonswarthout.com/
Betty Elizabeth Bloomer Ford (1918 – 07/08/2011) US First Lady (39)
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=39
Carmen McRae, (1920-Nov 10,1994 ). US jazz singer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/carmen-mcrae-mn0000185948
Jacques Brel, 1929- 9th October 1978.Belgian singer, songwriter. Marc Almond, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, The Kingston Trio and Gavin Friday have all covered his songs. Brel has sold over 25 million records worldwide, including over 12 million albums and singles in France and Belgium.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jacques-brel-mn0000121590
from Seasons In the Sun (Le Moribond)

Adieu, Francoise, my trusted wife;
Without you I'd have had a lonely life.
You cheated lots of times but then,
I forgave you in the end
Though your lover was my friend.
Adieu, Francoise, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky.
Now that spring is in the air
With your lovers ev'rywhere,
Just be careful; I'll be there.

As sung by the Kingston Trio; Translated by Rod McKuen
http://www.mckuen.com/flights/020699.htm
Seymour Hersh, (1937) American journalist Pulitzer Prize-1970
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/seymour_m_hersh/search?contributorName=seymour%20m%20hersh
James John Herbert, ( 1943 – 20 March 2013) English horror writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378562/
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/james-herbert/
Barbara Kingsolver, (1955 –) U.S. novelist, The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993 The Poisonwood Bible (1998) 2007, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Flight Behavior (2012),
http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Kingsolver/e/B000APW2FQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365353553&sr=8-1
Julian Lennon (1963 – ) English singer, songwriter, first son of Beatle John Lennon and the only child of Lennon's first wife Cynthia Lennon. His godfather was Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. Julian Lennon had the 1991 UK No.6 single 'Saltwater'. Had a cameo role in the 1995 film 'Leaving Las Vegas', as a bartender.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/julian-lennon-mn0000260384
Passed:
0408
Susanna Strickland Moodie ((12/06/1803 –1885) English-Canadian novelist & poet
http://www.bartleby.com/246/1193.html
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=5854
Eric Axel Karlfeldt, July 20, 1864-1931 Swedish poet, Nobel Prize for Literature posthumously in 1931
http://www.poemhunter.com/erik-axel-karlfeldt/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/
George Jean Nathan (02/14/1882 –1958) US writer
http://english.arts.cornell.edu/awards/nathan/bio.html
Pablo Picasso (10/25/1881 –1973) Spanish artist
http://www.picasso.com/
General Omar Bradley (02/12/1893 –1981) US military
http://www.opinionbug.com/2109/armistice-day-1948-address-general-omar-n-bradley/
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/omarnels.htm
J. Fred Coots, May 2,1897- 1985 American songwriter For All We Know , 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' and Pat Boone s 'Love Letters In The Sand.' wrote over 700 songs
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/j-fred-coots-mn0000096088
Marian Anderson (02/27/1897 –1993) US singer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marian-anderson-mn0000823994
Laura Nyro (10/18/1947 –1997) US singer, songwriter -. Suzanne Vega, Phoebe Snow, Roseane Cash, Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt all covered her songs. She wrote 'And When I Die' a hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears and 'Stoney End' which was covered by Barbra Streisand.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/laura-nyro-mn0000137474
Blowin' Away

You ole fire
I'm mad with desire
You're my favorite one
Got me cookin' like a fever
Got my love runnin' for the sun
I feel so highI feel like I may
Go blowin' away

My well meaner
My day fancy dreamer
Oh what can it be ?
Well it's something like a power
Like a hold and it's holdin' me
I feel so high
I feel like I may
Go blowin' away

My long laster
My soft hearted master
Ain't been born and bred
But he's standin' in my doorway
In my mind
Up above my head
I feel so high
I feel like I may
Go blowin' away

Read more: LAURA NYRO - BLOWIN' AWAY LYRICS
http://www.metrolyrics.com/blowin-away-lyrics-laura-nyro.html
Malcolm McLaren (01/20/1947 –2010) English entrepreneur - former manager of the Sex Pistols, the New York Dolls and Bow Wow Wow … solo 1983 'Double Dutch'.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572229/
Sites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42444/42444-h/42444-h.htm
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://neefha.blogspot.com/
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html
http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
History:
0408
1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, told his father he was giving up engineering to become a writer
http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/
1935 Congress approved the formation of the Works Progress Administration
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftcole00.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftwpa.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpafwp.html
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/couch.works.progress.administration
1950, J. D. Salinger's "For Esme -- With Love and Squalor" was published in The New Yorker
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/8/2013
http://ae-lib.org.ua/salinger/Texts/N6-ForEsme-en.htm
1994 Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Darryl_Strawberry_1962&page=chronology
1994, Kurt Cobain's body found lying on the floor in the greenhouse of his house in Seattle
http://www.cobain.com/cobain.html?v5
Bonus Poem:

You

You are the whole building on fire.
You are the voice of sirens. You are
the dumb crowd milling, the capture
of Weegee’s lens. You are flames
licking up the escape. You're the hovering
of a mother at the cliff of her window ledge.
You are the choice to drop her baby.
You're the chance of a beckoning crowd,
six hands gripping a sooty raincoat. You
are the only option. You're a simple drop.
Ten stories below they pray you're like a cloud,
soft floating. You are like a cloud. Grey
and you don't hold anything. You are
that moment before a falling, the falling,
a whir of falling, wail of falling, the sweet
thud. You are black blood flaring
across the concrete. You are a needle
to the groove of a very sad song.
The whole building burns with you.
SANDRA BEASLEY
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n1/poetry/beasley_s/you.htm
http://www.sandrabeasley.com/

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