This Week’s Reading, 29.4.12

This week: Robert Crumb, Ezra Pound, orgies in space and more.

• Leader image by Zdzisław Beksiński. (If anyone knows the title, enlighten us.)

• “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

• It feels like an age since we first read about this, but the USPS finally revealed its stamps in honour of Twentieth Century Poets.

• Outerspace Sex Orgy: get it here.

• Ashes to Ashes Dept: so long, Amos Vogel and Levon Helm. (We disgracefully neglected to note the latter’s passing last week, and are suitably ashamed. Music from Big Pink is a favourite here).

• Ezra Pound’s poetry tips.

• The latest Ambit is out.

• Write or Die: the app of choice for dawdlers. (Thanks, Danielle).

• A pair of new Honest reviews for Iceberg (“In spite of its brevity, this book feels like a novel, not a novella. Although each episode of our hero and heroine’s journey is brief, all leave an indelible image in the mind of the reader.”) and Jazz (“I could write a lengthy thesis on all the connections I found weaving their way through each poem like “the soft cry / of the barbary macaques.””).

• Pynchon, Philosophy, Ethics.

• More self-promotion: perhaps you would like to ‘Like’ our Facebook page for The Vorrh?

• The Confessions of Robert Crumb, the 1987 documentary in full: