Category: Publications
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Blowfish Feast: Humorous Japanese Poems
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Read More →: Blowfish Feast: Humorous Japanese PoemsThat group of doctors can’t say enough about their patient’s last poem The translation of Japanese poems selected from classical anthologies by Keith Kumasen Abbott and Kazuaki Tanahashi, unpublished project https://persephoneabbott.substack.com
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Keith’s Letters 1988 – 1989
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Read More →: Keith’s Letters 1988 – 1989Now on Substack: https://persephoneabbott.substack.com/p/keith-kumasen-abbott-letters-1988 Enjoy!
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Poet in Residence 1977
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Read More →: Poet in Residence 1977Making the Labotan Valley News in 1977. Where are his notebooks from this period? Who has them? What happened to his materials after his death in 2019? #longmontcolorado #keithabbott #keithkumasenabbott #naropa #zenmonk
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Beat Scene 112
Read More →: Beat Scene 112My piece on my father’s missing manuscripts and notebooks was published in Beat Scene. Thank you Kevin Ring for highlighting this matter and supporting Mordecai of Monterey! Maybe some of Mordecai’s melanoia (the feeling that good things are going to happen) will grace us all!
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I’m Sending Along the Novel
Read More →: I’m Sending Along the Novel“I’m sending along the novel Mordecai of Monterey. This is my hommage to John Steinbeck, and of the two novels, the one I like best, mainly because it is gentler and funnier and a smoother read.” Keith Kumasen Abbott letter to Virginia Barber.
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Paradise, Nevada
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Read More →: Paradise, NevadaI had thought about it. The American Photography exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. Then my phone via Facebook or Instagram or Osmosis-Goo suggested that I seriously consider buying a ticket, like right now, click the link and chakka-gotcha! The Rijksmuseum sits just around the corner from my apartment, a five minute walk. Motivated, I took the…
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My Hand is Terrible Under the Re-Entry Stress
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Read More →: My Hand is Terrible Under the Re-Entry StressKeith Kumasen Abbott’s friendship with poet John Veglia, aka Nestor Marzipan: “I am now setting out for eccentric perfectionism. But with John gone, I’ll guess I’ll try to inherit at least part of His Quibble Crown. He was the best reader of my work I’ve ever had. Mordecai of Monterey, Harem Scarem and First Thing…
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Reviews of Mordecai of Monterey 1985
Read More →: Reviews of Mordecai of Monterey 1985“Keith Abbott may be called a near-master of the plain-style…..Mordecai of Monterey is a straightforward touching tale…The novel is often funny…always inventive and worth pursuing. Doris Grunbach * “I was so struck by Mordecai’s melanoia I wished to immediately catch it. Aas it is symptomatic of our times that adventures and unpredictability have to be…
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Beat Scene UK
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Read More →: Beat Scene UKBeat Scene UK Winter 2024. Keith Kumasen Abbott’s article “The Dharma Bums – Kerouac’s Dust Jacket Copy” is included among many others. Read it and enjoy! Excerpt: “Kerouac had a remarkably clear vision of the values found in his novel. By stressing the religious and positive aspects of the noelwith its lovefor nature and solitude,…
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18/53 Book of Songs
Read More →: 18/53 Book of SongsA promo card for Mordecai of Monterey, 1985 Excerpt from Mordecai of Monterey by Keith Kumasen Abbott: An hour later Mordecai was standing at the foot of Rita’s stairs. He did not want to be standing there. Mordecai was having his first crisis with his mental disease. He could not believe that his melanoia had…