“Some Modulated Pissing and Moaning” (Gordon Lish on Poetry)

 

From Gordon Lish’s story “How to Write a Poem.”

Still Life with Drawing Board, Pipe, Onions and Sealing-Wax — Vincent van Gogh

George Washington’s Rules of Civility

(Non-manuscript, more legible version).

“Of the PRESIDENT next you will hear me declare / That altho’ neither silver nor gold does he wear”

(More/via).

Please Vote for Me (2007 Documentary About Chinese Democracy and a Grade School Election)

Election Day — Norman Rockwell

Theodore Roosevelt on the Presidency — Kate Beaton

(¡Viva Kate Beaton! ¡Viva Hark! A Vagrant!)

“Election Day” — William Carlos Williams”

“Election Day,” William Carlos Williams:

Warm sun, quiet air
an old man sits

in the doorway of
a broken house—

boards for windows
plaster falling

from between the stones
and strokes the head

of a spotted dog

The Precious Book — Gwen John

“This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us” — Sparks (Live in 1974)

Iron Man — Moebius

Fando y Lis — Alejandro Jodorowsky (Full Film)

“What I Know About Gordon Lish” (1986 Spy Magazine Feature)

From a 1986 Spy magazine feature on editor/writer/hero Gordon Lish:

Turin Spring — Giorgio de Chirico

Batman — Moebius

Superman — Moebius

Henry Miller Riffs on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky (Film)