https://jameskoller.bandcamp.com/album/poems-for-the-blue-sky

 

 James Koller & Coyote Books available at:

https://kollerbooks.blogspot.com/

 

James Koller
reads
Looking for His Horses
at
https://jameskoller.bandcamp.com/

Happy birthday!

Listen to James Koller read at:

jameskoller.bandcamp.com

THAT SAME OLD OWL

THAT SAME OLD OWL

Walking up to the window
winter gray first morning light,

I missed him, didn't see
he sat atop the garden fence post,

then did, & stopped, & he knew
I'd stopped when I saw him,

& he was still, no move
until I moved, took one small step back,

& he turned, flew straight away,
passed into the gray & white trees

James Koller
15 Jan 09
from A River I Couldn't Find

hello from Dianella

hello from Dianella; here my little poem about european memorial day for Jim with Thea and friends in august in Seggiano

Dianella

https://poesiaprosaspontanea.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/seggiano-monte-amiata-memoriale-per-il-poeta-jim-koller-1936-2014-agosto-2016/

Happy Birthday from Ida Rose & Katherine

Hello from Placitas, NM

Here's a recording I did in (I'm pretty sure) 1986 in Albuquerque when I was setting up readings at the Central Torta.

Thank you for "Crows Talk To Him." I liked the song and I'm asking who wrote the lyrics -- is it Jim or his son?

https://duende.bandcamp.com/album/jim-koller-in-albuquerque

If you happen to know what books Jim was reading from let me know and I'll add it to the information.

Sincerely,

Larry Goodell, 

a direct contemporary and long time friend of Jim Koller's.

Some older videos collected here...

On the Poet's Cafe July, 2011

https://vimeo.com/26735098

At RISD 20 Nov 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myX_mX5hRMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNPaphtN40

In Rome April 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GpXUdaHwo4

Performance di Stefano Panzarasa alla vernice della Mostra di Collage di James Koller tenutasi 6/11/2010 alla Grafica Campioli , Monterotondo ROMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MzsnMa5Q_I

Recent Bone Show Excerpt May 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHDNnGe5SRE

Traduttologia's new issue with a commemoration of Jim is available

dear friends

Traduttologia's new issue with a commemoration of Jim is available.

a. V (n. s.), n. 9-10, luglio 2013 - gennaio 2014

Per James Koller. A un amico, in memoria

It contains my translation of Wilderness by Carl Sandburg with Jim's short biographical note

 my translation of a slight  different version of "A river I couldn't find", worked by Jim and Stefano to be played as a song - we already sent the link - 

http://crowstalktohim.blogspot.it/2014/12/from-mariagrazia-and-stefano.html

my translation of "From the Hotel Alba, Pescara" and brief comments on Jim's and Sandburg's poems. Some consideration on the term Wilderness and its translation into Italian.

a big hug 

 

Mariagrazia

remembering the poets

We moved by water, slowly
found our way in the dark, through the canals,
around the tight corners. We moved slowly-
circled out & in, put it together
like some kind of needlework. Some places
folks don't live their lives in a straight line.

James Koller (1936-2014)
15 Oct 87 Venezia

***

One Journey

Moths and other sacred wings
Butterflies and bees whisper
In breath of the wind
Blessed way blessing way things

Dreams are the minds streams
Thought pictures of the spirit
There are dreams of the day
There are dreams of the night

Thinking and dreaming are related
Dreams of the day we make our own
Dreams of night part eternals stone
There are dream takers
Taking from dream worlds
Taking dreams as a way of
Stealing thoughts

Turning minds inside then out
Dream slavers want to change
Our connections to ourselves
Mess with our dreams make us unsure
Unclear about right and wrong
Feed our dreams and instincts
To industrial profit machine

Difference between dream and fantasy
Reality and illusion center and no center
Dreams of the day keep our spirits alive
Our creative mind who we really are

With dreams we can create and heal
Follow our original purpose
Dreams are protection good medicine
Blessed way blessings way things

Sun and moon continue
We are all on one journey

John Trudell (1946-2015)
from Children of Earth
Childs Voice

 

For Jim

10 dicember 2014

10 Dicember 2015

dear Jim we remember you

Dianella

hello from Dianella in Italy

Ciao, with the permission of Jed Koller almost every day I put in my blog one poem of Jim  from "A river I could't find":https://poesiaprosaspontanea.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/a-river-i-couldnt-find-di-james-koller-2/

I love so much these poems of Jim and I remember him as poet and as person. In few day is the 10 dicember, as you know naturally

all the best from Dianella

A River I Couldn't Find

Bertie Koller - Searching For Blue Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrFn_2pPhNw

Another song for James Koller. Love, Bertie

Searching For Blue Sky
 

my father died an old

man coyote crow

face to the open

window sky road

we gathered around

the world together him

a lifetime of

children lovers friends

searching

for blue sky

oh joplin missouri

wind & clouds & rain

a poet died in your arms

but to you it's all the same

we're all just passing through

nomads drifters tramps

on our way to somewhere else

black coffee & maps

searching

for blue sky

set me loose on the

highways back-roads trails

let my heart

open love wail

for the days yet to

come be pass

from now until my

final closing last

searching

for blue sky

my father died an old

man coyote crow

face to the open

window sky road

beneath a mid-day sun

whiskey feathers bells

together we bade him

fare-thee-well

searching

for blue sky

23 Jan 15

our Love, Bob

from Ida Rose

There is a chair in my kitchen where you've always sat
I look over
and see you there
watching me.
You smile. And with your same eyes,
I smile back.

2/4/2015
(I love you, dad.)

M. Swift - For Jim, on the 49th Day

For Jim, on the 49th Day

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
 a star at dawn,
 a bubble in a stream;
 a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
 a flickering lamp, 
a phantom
 and a dream.

— The Diamond Sutra