Ry Beville

@rybeville.bsky.social

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UC Berkeley lecturer (Japanese literature & neurodiversity studies), translator of Japanese poetry, author, publisher, analog photographer, occasional musician. メディア・出版会社のボス。Notre Dame, UTokyo, Cal https://brightwavemedia.com/product/chuya-pog/

Two books, Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Stephen Mitchell and Rilke’s Duino Elegies by Alfred Corn.

A stack of books, from bottom to top: Obi Kaufman’s beautiful field guide, Deserts of California; Andrew Schelling’s Tracks Along the Left Coast; Janice Oberding’s The Big Book of California Ghost Stories; Mexican poetry translated by Samuel Beckett and edited by Octavia Paz; and the novel Carpentaria by Alexis Wright.

grainy analog photograph of guitarist Jake Cinninger (stage left) and keboardist Joel Cummins (stage right) of Umphrey's McGee playing at night on a stage at Salvage Station in Asheville, NC. Taken with a Pentax 6x7 film camera on Ilford Delta 3200 film pulled a stop.

Frank Zappa, striking a studious looking pose with his hand on chin… and a black cat on his shoulder.