P/P NEWSLETTER II.25.2008

February_25_2008:

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Picture/Poems by Cliff Crego

In every picture,
there's a poem;
In every poem,
a picture.

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Dear Friends:

Here's what's new on the Picture/Poem website
the fourth week of February 2008. Coming to you this
week from Richland, Oregon & the beautiful Wallowa Mountains . . .

Picture/Poems: Central Display (and follow links to...)

http://www.picture-poems.com

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FEBRUARY SPECIAL FEATURE:

*PURCHASE ONLINE PICTURE/POEM CliffCards*

Box of 12 Note Cards $12.00 + shipping

From PhotoWeek Northwest,
MIST OVER EAGLE VALLEY---send a friend an image from
the Wallowa Mountains of Northeast Oregon, USA.
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf42b7428041

See larger image at:
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/slideshow.jsp?auto=0&aid=768a5498cf42b7428041

View other CliffCards
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/gallery.jsp?gid=768a5498ce7cfd04fd65

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Featured photograph/poems from "Images of the Natural Year":

*After Storm, New Snow -- clearing*

This week, four new translations from the
GERMAN:

The Reader
Who knows him, this one, whose own face
sinks away out of its being into a second one,
that only the quick turning of whole pages
sometimes forcibly interrupts?

Even his own mother would be uncertain
if that were him, who, together with his shadow,
was drenched with reading. And we, hours to spare,
what do we know, how much he fades away, until,

in fatigue, he stops: raising up everything
into himself which has happened in the book below,
with eyes, which, instead of taking, nudge up
against the full and finished world as they give:
like quiet children, who, playing alone,
suddenly experience that which is at hand;
and yet his features, ordered as they were,
remain now forever rearranged.

Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Cliff Crego)

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/deepsnow.html

See also the PosterPage for THE MOUNTAIN at:
http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_mountain.html

Or DOWNLOAD the PDF at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_mountain.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Or visit the P/P nested website for RILKE'S poetry
in new English translations at:

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke

You can find the complete index
of translations in German & English at:

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/poemindex.html

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Featured PhotoWeek Images:

*RIM SNAKE RIVER GORGE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/rim_snake-river-gorge_2.html

*PROMISE OF THE WEST?*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/western-steppe_2-9-08.html

*BIG LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/big-lookout-mountain.html

*SNAKE RIVER ROAD*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/snake-river-road_feb.html

*SOLITARY TREE IN STEPPE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/solitary-tree_in-steppe.html

*SNAKE RIVER ROAD, BIKE-TIRE VIEW*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/snake-river-road_view.html

*SNAKE DREAMSCAPE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/snake_dreamscape.html

*ACROSS THE STEPPE*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/across-the-steppe_east2.html

*POWDER RIVER, VIEW NORTH*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/powder-river_view-north.html

*TWO TREES*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/two-trees_2-16-08.html

*SNAKE RIVER, VIEW NORTH*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/snake_northview_2-11-08.html

*SNOW WIKI*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek/snowcamp_lastlight_2-16-08.html

*FROM INSIDE SNOW WIKI, VIEW WEST*

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek/snow-wiki_view-west.html

Or go to the new updated PhotoWeek Northwest Image Index at:

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek-archive_nw.html

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Featured Miniatures:

*ONCE TRUTH IS LOST*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_lost-truth.html

Download PDF at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_lost-truth.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

*WINDPOWER & AN ESSENTIAL BUCKY FULLER TRIANGLE*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_bucky-windpower.html

Download PDF at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_bucky-windpower.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Purchase online glossy A4 (8 x 10") Posters $4.99:

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf73536aeff1

Or go to the P/P Miniatures Archives at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/archive-miniatures.html

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Featured Picture Poem:

TWO LITTLE POEMS ABOUT NOTHING
(1) Zero

Zero,
such a shy performer,
at first hiding behind the no's "n",
you step out onto the clear, open page;

0,

inside your tight boundaries lies amazing space,
the mouth of a bottomless well dropping down into
the dark waters of unknown significance,
where absence is not naught and a mere
nothing adds more to the already full.

Cipher of silence, swollen round with fresh beginnings,
of curtains about to open, the choir's first breath... . . .

Origin of origins which comes forever before
the note which can never be played.

http://picture-poems.com/week8/nothing.html

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Featured Guest Poems:

*12 Miniatures by Emily Dickinson*

Selected & read by Cliff Crego
http://cs-music.com/features/movs/guest/dickinson-12.html

Or listen in streamed RealAudio at:

http://picture-poems.com/realaudio/download_dickinson-12.ram

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Featured Musical Compositions:

*Stone Song*

Based on eight English translations by Cliff Crego of poems
by the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg

Stone Song

Words going backwards
are on their way to you:
so that you may hear
your ears are gone.

Sentences inside out
because your knowing is gone.
Song to surround you
stone against stone.

Gerrit Achterberg
(tr. from the Dutch by Cliff Crego)

DOWNLOAD MP3 at:

http://picture-poems.com/mp3/stonesong.mp3 [6.7 Mb]

Or listen in streamed RealAudio at:

http://picture-poems.com/realaudio/stonesong.ram

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Featured Links:

*DR. LONNIE THOMPSON & ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR FUTURE*

This is a talk given by Dr. Lonnie Thompson in December of 2007 at
the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Thompson
is a senior research scientist at the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State University.

This is an address which deserves serious and sustained attention by all
those passionately concerned about Climate Chaos, and especially those
with an eye to the quickly disappearing alpine ice fields of the Earth.

http://picture-poens.com/links

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As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome.

All the best.
Cliff Crego
Northeast Oregon, USA
crego@picture-poems.com

The Picture/Poems March 2008 Calendar *MARCH WALLOWA LIGHT* is at:
http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_wallowa-light_3.html

Download the PDF of the calendar at:

http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_wallowa-light_3.pdf
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

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