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The Sycamore Tree

The Sycamore Tree

Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 4, 2010 in Poetry | 3 comments

Â The Sycamore Tree Not to the sycamore tree grave of republicans or the communist party not to the stones...

I WANT TO LIVE!

I WANT TO LIVE!

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 24, 2009 in Blogh | 0 comments

I WANT TO LIVE! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html I have for many years loved the...

Gnostic Paranoia

Gnostic Paranoia

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 7, 2009 in Blogh, Poetry | 5 comments

I don’t remember writing this, except for a line here and there. And it wasn’t some late night...

Endangered Species, 3.3

Endangered Species, 3.3

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 10, 2009 in Fiction | 0 comments

3.3 For days after that I languished in the most divine state of love-stricken wasture, waiting for her...

Frail Mosaics

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 10, 2009 in Poetry | 0 comments

Â Â Frail mosaics of wooded hillsides crumbling tiles Â Autumnal clowns in precarious quilts Â Like...

Gaha: Babes of the Abyss

Gaha: Babes of the Abyss

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 3, 2009 in Fiction, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss | 0 comments

I’m reading on Sunday, November 11th, 4pm at Buffalo Street Books, in Ithaca, from Gaha: Babes of the...

Update on Xmas Weather

Update on Xmas Weather

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 29, 2009 in Blogh | 0 comments

An old, nearly lost friend wrote to say she had read my highschool reunion blogh and thought that i found...

Historiography

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 29, 2009 in Books, The Vietnam Project | 0 comments

South East Asian Historiography Not long ago I finished William Southworthâ€™s two volume dissertation on...

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About Jon Frankel

This website is dedicated to my poetry and fiction. The novels, The Man Who Can't Die, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss and The Isle of Dogs are published by Whiskey Tit Press. Writing as Buzz Callaway, I'm the author of Specimen Tank and The Last Bender. Specimen Tank is published by Manic D Press. The Last Bender is published on this website. Currently I'm working on The Vietnam Project, a travel memoir about Vietnam and its long history. I also write book reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. I live in upstate New York with my family and am a retired stacks manager.