Lindley Williams Hubbel writes that two of his greatest influences are Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein. Search as I might, I see no trace of either in his writing. Perhaps he knew very well that certain models are only to be admired–like looking at the moon in a mirror and not expecting to take it home when one slips the mirror in one’s pocket.

Lindley Williams Hubbell was born in Connecticut in 1901 and died at the age of 93. He was educated by tutors and was Long a resident of Kyoto, where beginning in 1953 he worked as a professor of English literature at Doshisha University. He became a Japanese citizen in 1960, taking the name Hayashi Shuseki. His volumes of poetry have been published by Yale, Knopf, Alan Swallow, and others.

Jesse first wrote about Hubbell in this blog in January 2006. Check out his post here.

We are pleased to begin offering Hubbell’s works (published by the Ikuta Press). Check out our shop here.

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Pleased to announce that David Annwn’s Bela Fawr’s Cabaret is now cleanly birthed from the presses and properly celebrated by the likes of your humble correspondent, Joe Zanghi, and Joe Zanghi’s landlord, a kindly gent of 78 summers that Joe regularly rescues from sidewalk mishaps and deposits safe and sound to sleep it off in his room. We all three enjoyed lifting a glass or two or three–Joe and his friend to the thrills and perils of skiing in the Japanese Alps,–and me (secretly) to brothers Alan Halsey, and David Annwn, and sister Geraldine Monk in the distant islands of England. The Muse clearly dances in Bela Fawr’s Cabaret. With Mark Spitzer’s raging demotic and David Annwn’s multi-lingual riffs, we truly have defined for us yet another conceptual space in which the dance of the intellect may continue. Not a bad night to tie one on a bit! Jess