Me Reading Stuff

Today:Low energy. Canadian praise.Heavy air of grief. Tenderness and sparks and homeless and arguments and it's all ok. Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.orgTyler Bright Hilton: http://www.tylerbrighthilton.comJay Dart: http://www.thedart.ca

The title of this podcast is, "RESPECT THIS HUSTLE"This is not an angry podcast. But it almost was! Isn't life fun? No? Yeah, I know. But..."perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday"Your friend in all kinds of matters,RobynThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/154369/the-selected-poetry-of-rainer-maria-rilke/Cool photo of me taken Sunday night: https://shogofawafa.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/francisco_de_goya_saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_1819-1823.jpg

And meanwhile, you, in the wind. xo, RobynDEFINITELY buy this book. But I couldn't find it anywhere but Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Poetry-Drummond-Andrade-Alberti/dp/0375709886My hero: http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-be95/k2-_1359e45c-57a8-4d19-9743-1c16b358cc8a.v1.jpg

For $75 a month, I rented a house that didn't laugh at me. And I'll be happy to make your decisions for you. Also, we ate so much spaghetti back then. I taught Trent what a colander was, and he showed me Hieronymus Bosch.I'm exhausted, RobynThis poem can be found in this anthology: http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Poems-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/1400044235And here's my friend Trent: http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/trenton-doyle-hancock/

I'm PISSED today. At Kleenex. It's over between us. I've moved on to Puffs already, but it was a dramatic & painful break-up. So, be patient with my fury in the first few minutes of today's episode. And then, most importantly, listen to Robert Hass fly."And the days churned by, navigable sorrow."With love, RobynBuy Sun Under Wood here: http://www.bestdealbuys.us/p/Sun-Under-Wood-51687968.htmlAnd look at the amazing work of Matthew Sontheimer here: http://www.talleydunn.com/artist/view/matthew_sontheimer/21And check out my twitter feed to see the hostility between Kleenex and yours truly: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace." -Patricia Highsmith, age 26, at 2:30am New Year’s Eve 1947 in her journal.Buy the Jean Valentine book, "Door in the Mountain..." here: http://www.upne.com/0819567124.htmlThe Patricia Highsmith I recommend the most is here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Animal-Lovers-Book-of-Beastly-Murder/

An update from the garage. My apologies for the sibling/marriage joke. I would have edited it out, but I just didn't feel like editing it out. There's lunch to eat over here, and these drawings aren't gonna make themselves.I wish I could see these geese Mary Oliver is talking about, but they're not flying around my apartment. You do not have to be good,RobynListen to Mary Oliver read "Wild Geese" from her living room in Florida here: http://www.onbeing.org/blog/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/5966Check out Electric Works here: https://www.sfelectricworks.comBuy Dream Work by Mary Oliver here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/dream-work_mary-oliver/265887/?gclid=CjwKEAiA2IO0BRDXmLndksSB0WgSJADNKqqoc6AawXlIeZAYC9v8wO8UGMv1DH8XlXgHZT5zJ2Q2bBoCXTLw_wcB#isbn=0871130696&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

Greetings from a rare Saturday night in the shittiest part of Beverly Hills. Today my athletic neighbor caught two people having sex behind my car in our parking garage and got really concerned about it. Then I made really disgusting orange chicken for dinner. And later my cat threw up. And my feet are abnormally cold. Anyway, something about this combo of events made me realize tonight was as good as any for a ME READING STUFF check-in. So here I am, reading to you about the end of the world as envisioned by Czeslaw Milosz. Maybe a bee was circling those two people behind my car? One never knows, Robyn

Here's to kicking pedophiles and/or bigots out of your house this Christmas. And here's to storms,Robynp.s. Buy the Goldbarth book The Kitchen Sink here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/kitchen-sink-0

Garth Brooks thanked God for Unanswered Prayers, and today I salute, with heavy heart, Unanswered Letters. And dusk. And tater tots. And you. From the 5th window, RobynBuy Tranströmer's The Great Enigma here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-great-enigma-new-collected-poems-p-212123.html?gclid=CPbz79P67ckCFViTfgodDNAP2Q

Just straight up bragging about having perfect attendance from Kindergarten-12th grade in this episode. I'm doing my best over here, you guys. I'm so sorry the past 2 weeks have been downright unimaginative. I hope with all hope I can deliver something more entertaining to you soon. And to the executives at Kleenex, I'm ready for a meeting whenever you are. Call me!Not a rule breaker,RobynBuy the Stafford book here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-way-it-is_william-edgar-stafford/487951/?gclid=CIzS4_TD5MkCFUOVfgod7fYKxw#isbn=1555972845&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=Learn more about my favorite company Kleenex here: https://www.kleenex.com

From my sickbed comes a crucial PSA about the risks of being naked while receiving a FaceTime invite from your brother and his 4-year old son. Please enjoy. And do not visualize anything I say. Ever.

Affirmation by Power of ThoughtI think my life to flow, I know my life to flow,From brain to all my body to flow.Streaks of light do shootThrough my tissue root.The flood of life in vertebrae Doth rush through spine in froth and spray;The little cells all are drinking;Their tiny mouths all are shining;The little cells all are drinking;Their tiny mouths all are shining.Thanks to Steve from the tunnel by the library.

I managed to tear down an old folder off my bookshelf to see what would fall out. An old printout of this Ted Kooser poem was the 1st thing I found. So I read it to you, wished you well, and went about my business. Also, no matter what:“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems?" -Ted Kooser

Can you head out into the world without issue? Can you think about your past and be all "ehhh, it was ok, no big deal." Can you attend a party and enjoy it? Can you just eat regular, healthy meals & head to the gym after work and not overthink the whole thing? Well good for you! Please listen to another reading of Anne Boyer from her astounding book "Garments Against Women" which can be purchased through the link below. I can not explain how much I revere this book. If I could give it every single award there is, I would do exactly that. I love you guys,RobynBuy the book here: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/Learn more about Anne Boyer here: http://www.anneboyer.com

Today, while I watch a man in a Members Only jacket urinate on the wall behind my home, I read you a poem about how the wondrous clashing of emotion and time are exactly what make up a life. This isn't bad, this isn't good, it just is. And I guess in its is-ness, it's actually pretty damn splendid. I also talk to you about an experience I had with two bodybuilding brothers while living in Chicago. Now that one is sad. Unequivocally.We will go through endless streets,Robyn

Before I started dicing a bunch of Thanksgiving vegetables, I took my laptop outside to talk to you. But I'm naturally very loud and it's early, so I'm more like whispering to you. I sound pretty creepy. Sorry about that. And less than a week ago, I stated clearly I would never have a guest on this podcast. Today, I broke that rule with a surprise guest. Listen to hear who I let in!With love, Robyn

Don't be a clown. Or do. It's all about the depending. Listen as Leonard Cohen tells us what is embarrassing and not-right about those who read to us. Let me not fail him. I look good when I'm tired (he said so), Robyn

What did you last ask in a graveyard? What is the perfume you love? Have you, a poor man, entered a woman of means? And do we all agree that good things are most likely NOT on their way? How much toilet paper do you keep in the house? Do you use HP60 ink cartridges? Is it ok that this is all about me? Did I warm your heart in San Antonio?With love, Robyn and MarkLINKS:Strand on Bookworm: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/mark-strand-a-blizzard-of-oneBut the book: http://knopfdoubleday.com/author/30082/mark-strand/

"The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice." Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson is in my list of the Top 5 Books I'd Recommend to Absolutely Anyone. It's tragic, obsessive love. It's cruelty and confusion. It's brave and brilliant. And dear Geryon is the most lovable main character I've ever read. And the structure of this book - A NOVEL IN VERSE - perfection. GOD LOVES LOLA,Robynp.s. so sorry for the horrible German pronunciations!