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Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Ring of Brodgar


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Posted by James Mitchell at Thursday, December 16, 2010
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Χρη ευ μάλα πολλων ιστορας φιλοσόφους άνδρας εΐναι. -- Ηερακλιτος.

But if it is not granted to us to fill our fragile and fleeting days with famous deeds, (for the opportunity for this lies in the hands of others), let us all the more devote them to writing, and since our lives are short, let us leave something behind to bear witness that we have lived.

—Pliny the Younger, Letter III.7.

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James Mitchell
San Francisco, CA, United States
James has operated two small presses in San Francisco dedicated to the literary arts. Presently he is the publisher of Ithuriel's Spear, which has plopped forth 24 titles since 2004. In 1969 he started the first gay poetry magazine in San Francisco, and in 1973 he set up Small Press Traffic in the backroom of a bookstore on Castro Street. Remarkably, he made a living for awhile as a musician in the action-packed 1970's, when he was also a founding director of the San Francisco Early Music Society and a music broadcaster on KPFA. He is presently a grad student in medieval history at S.F. State, has been a practicing Soto Zen Buddhist since 1971, and, overcoming a passion for fast motorcycles, has now decided upon his eventual reincarnation as a 1957 Oldsmobile convertible (two-tone, white and red, with sidewalls). He has decided to pass the time until then playing old-timey music on his excellent Martin D-28 guitar. James Mitchell can be reached at plainfeather@gmail.com.
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My Recent Books

Soto Zen Ancestors in China (2005)

Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (2nd edition 2007)

On the Cultivation of Gardens, by Walafrid Strabo (transl. James Mitchell, 2009)

Good Gay Poems (2009)

These books can be read in their entirety on Google Books, just go to:
http://books.google.com/books
and enter in the title.
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Some recent articles and papers

The Good Bishop: Shifting Aretalogies in the Bishops' Vitae of Ottonian-Salian Germany

Locating Homosexuality in Carolingian Monasteries

Strategies of Conquest: Alexander’s Persian Campaigns 333-331 B.C.

Killing Women: Gender, Sorcery and Violence in Late Medieval Germany

The Roman Invasions of Germania Magna

Love Defeated: The Decline and Fall of Homosexuality in the Roman Empire

Interview with Abbot Yi Chen of Zhenru Monastery, Jiangxi Province, China, 1987

Sebastian Quill - Volume One - Fall, 1970
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