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Henry Gould

@henryghenrik.bsky.social

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semi-good semi-gray poet. Born in Mpls, lived in RI 45 yrs, back home. New book, a Mississippi poem : GREEN RADIUS https://contubernalesbooks.com/green-radius1. Also : PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS https://contubernalesbooks.com/parmenides-in-minneapolis

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 6h

"Why should the private pleasure of some one
Become the public plague of many more?"

– Lucrece, speaking of the Trojan prince Paris, and the fall of Troy (in Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece")

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 7h

"Solvitur ambulando." = "walking solves it" (any problem). Attributed to Saint Augustine; preached passionately by Thoreau.

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 11h

PASSION OF THE SUMAC

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 11h

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 11h

the passion of the sumac

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 15h

Is there a goodminton? We need one in these troubled times

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 17h

& speaking of flags : although I'm not crazy about the new MN state flag, I wasn't crazy about the old one either, & I accept the new dispensation. But I think it's perfectly ok to fly mine and granddaughter Sophie's entry, on nice days like this ...

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 19h

Tuning into Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton (courtesy of Lady Claire Asquith, & the Royal Hennepin County Publicke Library)

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 20h

Reading poem # 3 from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS : "On Flag Day" :
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On Flag Day

poem #3 from *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 21h

Minneapolis residents eligible to vote in the current mayoral contest, please read this well-informed and pretty damning op-ed.

www.startribune.com/housing-stab...

Opinion | Omar Fateh’s ethics concerns deserve answers

"One thing I miss about the courtroom is that people are held accountable for dishonesty," Martha Holton Dimick writes.

www.startribune.com

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who quit Ben & Jerry's is perhaps due for the Nobel for Ice Cream

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

It was thanks to the architects

The Origin of ‘Equal Justice Under Law' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | The Origin of ‘Equal Justice Under Law'

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing but hills of books. Sounds a bit too much like the library I ... for 30 years ...

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

Bükk = beech
[as does "book"]

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

We could look for a village in the Bükk Mountains en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCkk

Bükk - Wikipedia

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

We could start a book club in a small impoverished town in the hills of eastern Hungary (if they have hills there).

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know what I'm talking about. I briefly glanced at one of his books exactly once. Sounds interesting, though.

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like one way to be a poet might be something like the way Krasznahorkai writes his prose. By falling under the spell of gravity on a planet completely interior to himself. Withdrawn from intrusions of any kind. An inwardness, hermetically sealed, yet animated by compassion, humorous humanity.

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

Reading poem # 2 from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS

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S.S. Normandie

poem #2 from *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds too much like "Vast & Bulbous" (Don van Vliet, from Trout Mask Replica)

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Kyla!

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, David!

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad to see there's a "closed-caption" option on the lower-right corner of this video. So you can read along with the text supplied (which is a close approximation of the actual text of the poem).

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Reading aloud & in place from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS :
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Parmenides in Minneapolis

reading # 1 : the title poem

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Reading aloud & in place from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS :
open.substack.com/pub/henryghe...

Parmenides in Minneapolis

reading # 1 : the title poem

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