Tag: Naropa
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Summer 1961
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/ PoemRead More →: Summer 1961During a family trip to the Midwest, Keith Kumasen Abbott wrote a letter back home to his girlfriend, C. (Keith’s daughter Persephone took the liberty of setting the relatable text into poem form) …….I met a kid named Bob we toured the town and the surrounding area……
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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The translation of Japanese poems selected from classical anthologies by Keith Kumasen Abbott and Kazuaki Tanahashi, unpublished project https://persephoneabbott.substack.com
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Buck and Mordecai Go to Pebble Beach
Read More →: Buck and Mordecai Go to Pebble BeachKeith Kumasen Abbott so loved his comic novel Mordecai of Monterey that in 1987 he wrote to Michael Sowl (the inspiration for Mordecai) about the sequel in 1987, while complaining about recent dental work costs that had emptied his pockets: “I may need to haul trash for a living until my sunset years. You remember…
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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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Cloud Phoenix
Read More →: Cloud PhoenixKobun Chino Ototgawa Roshi, Soto Zen priest, was active at San Francisco’s Zen Center and founded Zen temples in California and New Mexico. His Dharma name was apt. He did seem to float and morph like a cloud as he went about his duties. He became the holder of a World Wisdom Chair at Naropa…
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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…
