The City & the Country no.76

Springtime blooming gloriously around Woodstock (that magnolia beside our Library, in the photo, a yearly joy) – lilacs on the way to add to Nature’s purple and gold crown – life following its happy routine: weekly brunch with Chiara, weekly breakfast with Linda & Princess… classes winding to an end, tomorrow the last classes of the Spring semester…

Sunday May 3 was a landmark in Dr. Cicero’s life – our imprint’s first poetry launch in the series edited for us by Robert Kelly, a launch in the form of a reading from their two fine books by Billie Chernicoff and Michael Ives respectively, at The Bookstore in Lenox, MA. Wonderful reading by both, and an astonishing $600 take, beyond our wildest hopes for a poetry reading.

Thursday 7 am take off for San Francisco and a revival of Nolan’s narrated symphony, ‘Cosmic Reflection,’ once more with me as the cosmic Narrator (200 separate cues to hit), a nerve-wracking but thrilling prospect, along with a reunion with Nolan and the work’s Maecenas, my beloved brother Pierre.