John Roche

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Joe morphs into a variety of idiosyncratic wanderers and Josephina, Don Quixote-like dudes and who knows- he could be any poet messiah--after a few poems the reader won't know what to expect as Roche takes the reader on an odyssey from Montana to Paris to Penny Lane. The poems are witty, terse, darkly and oddly funny, often with a mild twist at the end as in Joe disputing academic rigor.   References seem right for the kaleidoscope of changing settings-like Shakespeare and Co., the Piggly Wiggly stores, etc. The poems are fun to read and must have been fun to write.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Lyn Lifshin, Vienna, Virginia</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Roche's <I>The Joe Poems: the Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet</I> refracts his vibrant, unique and far-flung life experience through the prism of a mind on lyric. The result is a fantastic realism that sticks with you. The new forms he uses here sport a command of the poetic matching his mastery of historical past, creating a staying power for the soul of 'Joe the Poet' to be forever balanced on the cusp of the borderlands-but the best thing is simply that it's all a wide angle on the great pageant and turns out Joe's a pretty good guide.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -G.E. Schwartz,  Henrietta, NY</div> <bR> <bR> <div> "A rewarding read.  There's a lot of erudition beneath the surface of these unassuming little gems."</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Charlie Rossiter, Oak Park, IL</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Author's Note</B></div> <bR> <div> These poems are all ten-lines each. I took Alan Casline's advice and set a word-count restriction. It was going to be eighty words, but I quickly found myself cheating and so raised the debt ceiling to one-hundred words. Resemblances to people alive or dead are purely intentional, though each of Joe's incarnations is, it goes without saying, drawn from multiple sources, most of which I'm not aware of. These are tall tales meant to stretch the neck of credulity, in the American humorist tradition. One of the poems alludes to Whitman's claim to have fathered six illegitimate children in New Orleans, which confused an audience member at one of my readings. Of course, Joe is as big a liar as Whitman or Twain. Doesn't matter if there are scorpions in Joe's Montana as there are just as likely to be dinosaurs. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Prologue: Joe the Poet 2</B></div> <bR> <div> We're still waiting for Joe the Poet</div> <div> waiting for his secret sign and saving word</div> <div> possessing the origin of all poems </div> <div> and the good of the earth and sun</div> <div> disguised as the cheerful voice of the public road</div> <div> still waiting for the man with a single rose and a mojo hand</div> <div> <I>Beware! Beware! his flashing eyes, his floating hair!</I></div> <bR> <div> He's just a working bard who roams from town to town</div> <div> silver hair, ragged shirt and baggy pants, a ragged clown</div> <div> a stargazing Tom Thumb who carries his books in a gunny sack</div> <div> grown old with wandering through hollow lands and hilly lands</div> <div> along the seashore washed by the suds and foam</div> <div> singing, <I>Soft is the grass, my bed is free</I></div> <bR> <div> Though evening's empire has returned into sand</div> <div> vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey</div> <div> the doors themselves unscrewed from their jambs</div> <div> we're still waiting for Joe the Poet</div> <div> to give us a broadside to revive us again</div> <div> singing softly, <I>Let grief be a falling leaf at the dawning of the day</I></div> <bR> <div> Might be Josephine the Poet we're waiting for </div> <div> might be Crazy Jane</div> <div> might be someone whose name we don't yet know</div> <div> man in black or frowning babe</div> <div> but we're still awaiting, and a singing</div> <div> still awaiting, and a singing</div> <div> <I>Been a long, a long time coming</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Invisible Joe</B></div> <bR> <div> You won't find him in the Norton anthology</div> <div> though Joe might be there under another name</div> <div> maybe was there until the latest edition</div> <div> Garrison never reads his poems on the radio</div> <div> Poet Laureates don't drop Joe's name in casual conversation</div> <div> never had the privilege of turning down a White House invite</div> <div> He was once included in a collection of 13th century Sufi poetry</div> <div> or was that 12th century Zen poetry?</div> <div> or 11th century Timbuktu griots?</div> <div> Joe's had so many lives even he's not sure</div> <bR> <div> <B>Joe the Poet in San Francisco</B></div> <bR> <div> Joe disembarks after rounding the Horn from New York</div> <div> ships out on brigs plying Sandwich Islands & China trade</div> <div> doesn't spill his glass when the earthquake hits</div> <div> founds Bohemian Grove with Dan O'Connell's <I>Chronicle</I> gang takes long hikes with John Muir</div> <div> helps Jeffers build his Hawk Tower</div> <div> sits fire watch on Desolation Peak</div> <div> backs up an unknown Janis Joplin at The Coffee Gallery</div> <div> spends a year in a Zendo, then hits the monk with his own stick wanders off to Tamalpais and is gone</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="213d0ef0.jpg" border=0 width="464" height="239" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Photo by Jules Nyquist</div> <bR> <div> John Roche has lived along various rivers, creeks, and lakes. </div> <div> This is his third poetry collection from FootHills.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The </B><B>Joe Poems</B></div> <div> <B>is a 60 page hand-sewn paperbook  with spine - 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Not to simplify things too much, but this is the kind of poetry I like!</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>   --John Sinclair</div> <div> Amsterdam</div> <div> December 14, 2007</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>This is a good, solid book, musical and full of unexpected turns, defining the topics of the day just before they turn the dark corner into history. And, even more important, Roche refuses to draw a line between the personal and the topical. After all, our lives are on that table where the dice of politics are being thrown. In an age when so much poetry is predictable and solipsistic, </I><I><B>Topicalities </B></I><I>is a gift. </I></div> <div> --Steven Huff</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>I can't think of any other way to phrase this:  John Roche's </I><I><B>Topicalities</B></I><I> is a manifesto for our grim times, a “must-read” to help us survive the Bush Years and their aftermath. Yet the political sensibility of his poems is anything but grim. These poems raise awareness of the costs of the war in Iraq, for example, but his touch is deft. It moves, it rattles, it shakes and breathes passion, compassion…</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#323232" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><I> </I></FONT><I>This poetry is honest without being brutal; hope rises from these pages. Thus, he makes us see both a “child's broken body” on the road to Damascus and the hosta lilies of spring in Western New York.</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                        -- Karla Linn Merrifield </div> <bR> <div> <B>Forward</B></div> <bR> <div> Dedicated to the proposition that the topical poem is not inferior to the personal lyric and that poems about today's struggles are not necessarily lacking in “eternal themes.”  At a recent Wheeler Hill reading, Susan Deer Cloud alluded to a poet who apologized before reading a “political poem.” Expect no such apologies here. Neither expect a clear demarcation between the personal and the political, except in those poems, like <I>Rick's Café </I>or <I>Coalition of the Willing</I>, where a distinct p.o.v. is assumed.</div> <bR> <div> Dedicated to poets like Janine Pommy Vega, John Sinclair, and Ed Sanders who've kept the issues, and the music, alive. And to Woody Guthrie, who was always ready to confront “the new situ-ation.”</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Lucky</B></div> <bR> <div> It's 1955</div> <div> I'm being rocked in my cradle</div> <div> My father's on the road</div> <div> driving the byways of Connecticut</div> <div> for the American Tobacco Company</div> <bR> <div> Four decades later he'll succumb to emphysema</div> <div> in what lungs remain from the cancer surgery</div> <bR> <div> But, right now, he's tanned and young</div> <div> energetically setting up the Camels display</div> <div> flour-pasting Lucky Strike decals on the windows</div> <div> of package stores and general stores and grocery stores</div> <div> in Goshen Hebron Pomfret Scotland Norfolk Cornwall Coventry Norwalk New Canaan, New Milford, Norwichtown Deep River</div> <bR> <div> This morning he's sitting at a lunch counter</div> <div> in some pharmacy in some hamlet too small for a Woolworth's</div> <div> My Dad's got a cup of coffee a donut a cigarette</div> <div>  (a triad that was a constant in his life-</div> <div>  matched only by Mom and morning Communion) </div> <bR> <div> I would create a world where such pleasures are non-lethal</div> <bR> <div> Picture him outside</div> <div> on a sunny June day</div> <div> leaning against a wooden post</div> <div> examining his work with a satisfied eye</div> <div> and enjoying one more Lucky</div> <div> while morning stretches out and around the elm-draped bend</div> <div> in the road that goes on the road that goes on the road that goes on forever</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Virtual Wendell Berry</B></div> <bR> <div> Rushed out of work and onto the freeway</div> <div> burning fossil fuels</div> <div> to get to reading by the famous farmer poet</div> <div> hear why we need to slow down to mule-speed</div> <div> and learn to jettison consumerist dissatisfactions</div> <div> become human beings in human-scaled communities</div> <div> once again</div> <bR> <div> But first I'm shunted into snaking line around reflecting pool</div> <div> at the art museum</div> <div> then herded along with a hundred or more ethical sheep</div> <div> into the overflow pen (wainscoted and elegant)</div> <div> to watch our contemporary Thoreau</div> <div> over live videostream</div> <div> get an award for truth-telling</div> <bR> <div> Right after two words from our sponsors:</div> <div> a local state university branch</div> <div> and a globalizing bank</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Baghdad Boogaloo</B></div> <bR> <div> If it ain't broke, don't fix it</div> <div> If it ain't broke, don't fix it</div> <div> If it ain't broke, don't fix it</div> <div> If it ain't broke, don't fix it</div> <bR> <div> You break it, you bought it</div> <div> You break it, you bought it</div> <div> You break it, you bought it</div> <div> You break it, you bought it</div> <bR> <div> Jus' a little glue will do </div> <div> Jus' a little glue will do </div> <div> Jus' a little glue will do you</div> <div> Jus' a little glue will do </div> <bR> <div> Superglue that Sumerian figurine</div> <div> Superglue that pipeline</div> <div> Superglue that armor plating to the Humvees</div> <div> Superglue that power plant</div> <div> Superglue the Coalition of the Willing</div> <div> Superglue the Shias to the Sunnis to the Kurds</div> <div> Superglue their government</div> <bR> <div> You think you're quite the handyman, don't you?</div> <bR> <div> Down on the ranch jus' choppin' wood</div> <div> Choppin' wood all day</div> <div> Choppin' wood down on the ranch</div> <div> Jus' choppin'</div> <div> All day</div> <div> Jus' choppin'</div> <bR> <div> You can't fix it and you can't leave it</div> <div> You can't fix it and you can't leave it</div> <div> You can't fix it and you can't leave it</div> <div> You can't fix it and you can't leave it</div> <div> You can't you can't you can't you can't</div> <div> Your cant your cant your cant your cant</div> <bR> <div> Jus' more Baghdad Boogaloo</div> <div> A whole lot more Boogaloo</div> <div> Jus' more and more Baghdad Boogaloo</div> <div> Next time it's Tehran Tooraloo </div> <bR> <bR> <div> To contact John Roche - <A HREF="mailto:jfrgla@rit.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:jfrgla@rit.edu"><U>jfrgla@rit.edu</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>TOPICALITIES</B></div> <div> is an 84 page hand-stitched paper book with spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  </div> <bR> <div>        <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Topicalities"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-12"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - 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One's brought home to the physical world again, its daily, relieving insistences.  So a life finds its company, always."</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Robert Creeley</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>"John Roche's  </I>On Conesus<I> traces for us a place he located in his life-journey where the mind's contours could fit, for him, with the spiritual contours of the land and water on which and near which he and his wife lived.  You can trust that vision.  Thus, the silent loss when a beloved cottonwood falls, the poem notes it, and we can feel  its loss for all of eternity, as long as words stand black on white.   A pig farm mentioned in the </I>Maximus Poems<I> is long gone, but the poem remains. Long live the vision of Conesus."</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Ed Sanders</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U>Short review of </U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U><I>On Conesus</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U> </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U>by Levi Asher on his</U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U><I> Literary Kicks</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U> Site</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>On Conesus</B></div> <bR> <div> wine glow of</div> <div> "Indian summer"</div> <div> afternoon</div> <div> no wine-dark sea</div> <div> but sparkling</div> <div> water and</div> <div> air that intoxicates</div> <div> --why "Indian"?</div> <div> autumnal images</div> <div> (even John Ford employed)</div> <div> Senecas once</div> <div> a lake rich with</div> <div> northern pike</div> <div> saltlicks</div> <div> wild ducks</div> <div> turtle stones</div> <div> longhouses on Conesus Creek</div> <div> (village of old Can-ne-hoot,  Chief Conesus in Hosmer's  <I>Yonnondio</I>)</div> <div> sheepberries</div> <div> beaver colonies before the hat fad</div> <div> fox</div> <div> bear</div> <div> panther</div> <div> wolf</div> <div> (Did Rushville's "Great Wolf Hunt" of 1811 reach here?)</div> <div> --reverie broken by jet ski--</div> <div> stillness returns</div> <div> even Thoreau had the railroad</div> <div> reverberations across his lake</div> <div> --whose lake?</div> <div> time</div> <div> aboriginal canoes</div> <div> time</div> <div> Mort Zuckerman bulldozers</div> <div> time</div> <div> Don Henley concerts</div> <div> time</div> <div> All-Aboard!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Wellspring</B></div> <bR> <div> stream path</div> <div> from hill</div> <div> through our</div> <div> cellar</div> <div> surfacing</div> <div> on beach</div> <div> forms ice-</div> <div> banked</div> <div> river</div> <div> soon widens</div> <div> into bay</div> <div> as ice </div> <div> recedes</div> <bR> <div> we drank from this spring</div> <div> until January</div> <div> contractor</div> <div> broke concrete</div> <div> of driveway</div> <div> drilled frozen ground</div> <bR> <div> now we have </div> <div> chlorinated baths</div> <div> a mound of earth</div> <div> an eroding trench</div> <bR> <div> for fifty years</div> <div> people drank from the well-</div> <div> spring</div> <div> within this house</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Solar Returns</B></div> <bR> <div> Day-O!</div> <div> glistening</div> <div> island sun</div> <bR> <div> Take a Carnival Cruise</div> <div> in my li'l rowboat</div> <div> but it's 40°F.</div> <div> and the boat leaks</div> <bR> <div> Van Morrison</div> <div> on the box</div> <div> "Too Long in Exile"</div> <div> and</div> <div> "Til We Get the Healing Done"</div> <div> for now</div> <div> thankful</div> <div> for a wee bit</div> <div> o' sun</div> <div> after yesterday's</div> <div> 1st snow</div> <div> that stuck</div> <div> barely broke 30°</div> <div> two layers</div> <div> of socks</div> <div> two sweaters</div> <div> in the house</div> <div> burning fossils</div> <div> eating carbs</div> <bR> <div> That old cave mentality</div> <div> returns</div> <div> almost enough</div> <div> to make one</div> <div> a Republican</div> <bR> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-57-1</div> <bR> <div> <B>On Conesus</B> is a 96 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - 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