I just wrote several haiku... I know you all excellent on haiku, so feel free to share your suggestions. Anna Yin
a sofa
sits by the road
rats move in
photographer creeps
near a cub in the cave
eye fits into eye
six blue eggs
hidden in bushes-
footstep near
a hand lifts
dandelions in air-
wings up
mail box
no news arrives
tea turns cold
a door ajar
a snake slithers out
a cry out
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Chris Faiers <zenriver@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Hi RK,
I'll try and talk with Morley tonite about plans for opening the dam reading & see what he thinks. It's hard getting together with him since he started this new gig installing hot water tanks 6 weeks ago - we're lucky to hang out once or twice a week.
I think your CD is important - guess I said all that in my earlier email - the flight thru the dark passage to get to the light. I was at the Doors concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in 1969 when Morrison was busted for obscenity. He started the gig drunk,and then got drunker & prob. the LSD kicked in. Then he started haranguing the crowd how YOU'RE ALL IN THE SHIT, BUT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT!
Of course JM was right, and it made for good theatre initially, but then his drunken ramblings DIDN'T lead to a killer concert, just more BS ramblings with the other Doors noodling in the background.
But now I'm rambling as usu., & I'm not even drinking : ) ... My point is the importance of Birdman Stoneman to establish the reality of the darkness we're in as a civilization, a society, and as a number of nations (including First Nations). But without beating the audience over the head with the 'heaviosity' of the whole CD.
So I'm glad you are willing to do a 10 or 15 min. version - 'Wolf Hymn' prob. a good choice.
Maybe have you open even earlier than usual at the dam - maybe 4 pm. The stuff is so strong, it could pull in listeners and wanderers from the 'Celebrate Marmora' Day going on in the park.
Then maybe Morley could follow with his mellow music to relax the crowd. That sounds like an interesting rhythm to the dam reading - crank up the volume and message with you performing Wolf Hymn, have Morley calm down the crowd with his singing and guitar, and then have the crowd, which is mostly other poets anyway, crank themselves back up with their own readings.
PurdyFest #5 is starting to pull together with its own unique vibe ...
peace & poetry power!
Chris the cricket and Chase ......... wrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof!
p.s. I'm considering posting some of this email exchange on my blog - are you comfortable with this? It might drum up some enthusiasm & speculation & general buzz for PF #5, or it might convince everyone we really are crazy and avoid PF like the plague : )
On 2011-06-16, at 1:12 PM, Jim Larwill wrote:
>
> Hey Cricket,
>
> You were brave to listen to that CD in the late night. Thanks for the
> comments. Feel free to pirate a copy for Morley and Dr. John or pass
> that one around.
>
> I wouldn't do the whole thing for a reading.... don't think I have the
> energy for that... but I have done two 20-25 minute feature performances
> for the Slam in Carleton Place and Sasquatch reading series in
> Ottawa.... the feed back has been positive. (and I see Pearl let you
> know she has put some of it up on Utube and her blogg) The Pot luck was
> the right place for Wilber to show up last year but I don't know if this
> fits as well there, (some lighter stuff like that beaver poem maybe.) I
> do think a short version 10-15 min of "Birdman Stoneman Incantation"
> would fit as part of the opening of the Dam reading with Morley. The
> Wolf Hymn "calling up to sister moon" is a good calling together...
> calling out one... to pull in people. Start things with a howl????
>
> Of course some of the darker stuff can be saved for informal late night
> around the fire.
>
> Well anyway I am easy with being on or off...here or there... Sorry I
> don't really know Raymond's work very well and can't fill in there.
>
> Looking forward to the ripples of Zen River.
>
> Jim aka RK
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Faiers <zenriver@sympatico.ca>
> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011 0:29 am
> Subject: Re: Damm Reading/Larwill's launch of CD/soundtrack idea for the
> CD???/
>
>>
>>
>> Hi RK,
>> I finally got around to playing your amazing CD tonite ... at
>> PurdyFest last summer I was given a stack of books, chapbooks, even
>> a novel by Jim Christy. And then Jeff Seffinga asked me to be a
>> judge for the Acorn/Plantos Award, which required reading, sorting,
>> reading again, evaluating 30 books by 30 topnotch People's Poets.
>> Well, not all the poets were PP, and some of the books weren't
>> exactly PP either, all tho all had major merits.
>>
>> So the long & short of it is I felt completely burned out with
>> poetry stuff for most of the winter afterwards. And then I got
>> enthused again when Dr. John helped me start the R&R blog in late
>> Feb. But basically all the stuff I've been given to read, listen
>> to, etc. has just sat around the house in various piles.
>>
>> I finally got around to starting to sort thru them, & I did an
>> online review of Kent's first major collection on my blog last
>> nite. Quite incredible that he's published his first major
>> collection around age 70.
>>
>> So when I got yer email today, I knew I had to finally relapse, lie
>> in the dark, and play it start to finish before I could reply to you.
>>
>> Yep, it's the dark side - the dystopian vision which mankind has to
>> acknowledge is our rapidly arriving reality. Then Raven can return
>> with the light after man has lived thru his dark nite of the soul.
>>
>> My cable TV disappeared after a wild storm last week, & I'm
>> experimenting with cancelling it. So for the past week I've been
>> spending a lot of time listening to CDs late at nite instead of
>> vegging out to mindless boob tube shite. I've been playing the
>> Doors first album over and over, and I got some of the same vibe
>> from your chants. Morrison definitely channeled a lot of the dark
>> side, esp. on cuts like "the End".
>>
>> So I'm wondering if Dr. John would be interested in putting some
>> music to your chants? Of course it's up to you if you have any
>> interest in someone else messing with your work, & Dr. J would have
>> to listen to your CD & see if he's sympatico with it.
>>
>> Anyway, it's strong stuff, extremely powerful & your vocalizations
>> are mesmerizing (almost singing, esp. on that 'wolf' cut).
>>
>> I really think it's a good idea (an honour) to do a launch of your
>> CD at PF #5, & the questions are, what is the right time and the
>> right venue? I think having you perform around a campfire in the
>> dark is the more powerful place than on a sunlit island in the dam
>> on a Sat. afternoon.
>>
>> Maybe having the launch after the potluck supper, a la the Wilbur
>> performance you did last summer. That was the perfect time and
>> place - everyone was stuffed and sated, relaxed and ready for
>> Wilb's magickal appearance. I think maybe the same for your chants.
>>
>> I timed the CD at around 45 mins. - prob. a a bit long for a solo
>> performance, but maybe not.
>>
>> Then at the dam you could do a reprise perhaps of one or two of the
>> chant/songs.
>> We've still got a month and a half to plan things ...
>>
>> peace & love,
>> the Marm gang ...
>>
> wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof!
>
>> On 2011-06-15, at 11:33 AM, Jim Larwill wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey Chris,
>>>
>>> Was just thinking, sounds a bit quiet this year so if Morley wanted
>>> company at the opening of the Damn Reading I have the performance of
>>> songs and chants from Birdman Stoneman Incantation I could call
>> out to
>>> the crowd with... sort of a ceremonial opening... you could also
>>> advertise as the Marmora Launch for the CD if looking for publicity
>>> material.
>>>
>>> Anyway an idea... don't think Wilber can make it this year... but
>> watch> out he was mumbling about sending you an article about academic
>>> poets.... well at least he was being verbally abusive towards me
>> last> time he was here, but I wouldn't let him on my computer....
>> kicked him
>>> out but think I may have heard him rustling around in the woods...
>>>
>>> Anyway if you think adding to the opening is a good idea let me
>> know and
>>> I can send blurb material.
>>>
>>> RK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
--
Anna Yin
"Wings Toward Sunlight"
2011 by Mosaic Press
I just wrote several haiku... I know you all excellent on haiku, so feel free to share your suggestions. Anna Yin
a sofa
sits by the road
rats move in
photographer creeps
near a cub in the cave
eye fits into eye
six blue eggs
hidden in bushes-
footstep near
a hand lifts
dandelions in air-
wings up
mail box
no news arrives
tea turns cold
a door ajar
a snake slithers out
a cry out
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Chris Faiers <zenriver@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Hi RK,
I'll try and talk with Morley tonite about plans for opening the dam reading & see what he thinks. It's hard getting together with him since he started this new gig installing hot water tanks 6 weeks ago - we're lucky to hang out once or twice a week.
I think your CD is important - guess I said all that in my earlier email - the flight thru the dark passage to get to the light. I was at the Doors concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in 1969 when Morrison was busted for obscenity. He started the gig drunk,and then got drunker & prob. the LSD kicked in. Then he started haranguing the crowd how YOU'RE ALL IN THE SHIT, BUT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT!
Of course JM was right, and it made for good theatre initially, but then his drunken ramblings DIDN'T lead to a killer concert, just more BS ramblings with the other Doors noodling in the background.
But now I'm rambling as usu., & I'm not even drinking : ) ... My point is the importance of Birdman Stoneman to establish the reality of the darkness we're in as a civilization, a society, and as a number of nations (including First Nations). But without beating the audience over the head with the 'heaviosity' of the whole CD.
So I'm glad you are willing to do a 10 or 15 min. version - 'Wolf Hymn' prob. a good choice.
Maybe have you open even earlier than usual at the dam - maybe 4 pm. The stuff is so strong, it could pull in listeners and wanderers from the 'Celebrate Marmora' Day going on in the park.
Then maybe Morley could follow with his mellow music to relax the crowd. That sounds like an interesting rhythm to the dam reading - crank up the volume and message with you performing Wolf Hymn, have Morley calm down the crowd with his singing and guitar, and then have the crowd, which is mostly other poets anyway, crank themselves back up with their own readings.
PurdyFest #5 is starting to pull together with its own unique vibe ...
peace & poetry power!
Chris the cricket and Chase ......... wrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof!
p.s. I'm considering posting some of this email exchange on my blog - are you comfortable with this? It might drum up some enthusiasm & speculation & general buzz for PF #5, or it might convince everyone we really are crazy and avoid PF like the plague : )
On 2011-06-16, at 1:12 PM, Jim Larwill wrote:
>
> Hey Cricket,
>
> You were brave to listen to that CD in the late night. Thanks for the
> comments. Feel free to pirate a copy for Morley and Dr. John or pass
> that one around.
>
> I wouldn't do the whole thing for a reading.... don't think I have the
> energy for that... but I have done two 20-25 minute feature performances
> for the Slam in Carleton Place and Sasquatch reading series in
> Ottawa.... the feed back has been positive. (and I see Pearl let you
> know she has put some of it up on Utube and her blogg) The Pot luck was
> the right place for Wilber to show up last year but I don't know if this
> fits as well there, (some lighter stuff like that beaver poem maybe.) I
> do think a short version 10-15 min of "Birdman Stoneman Incantation"
> would fit as part of the opening of the Dam reading with Morley. The
> Wolf Hymn "calling up to sister moon" is a good calling together...
> calling out one... to pull in people. Start things with a howl????
>
> Of course some of the darker stuff can be saved for informal late night
> around the fire.
>
> Well anyway I am easy with being on or off...here or there... Sorry I
> don't really know Raymond's work very well and can't fill in there.
>
> Looking forward to the ripples of Zen River.
>
> Jim aka RK
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Faiers <zenriver@sympatico.ca>
> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011 0:29 am
> Subject: Re: Damm Reading/Larwill's launch of CD/soundtrack idea for the
> CD???/
>
>>
>>
>> Hi RK,
>> I finally got around to playing your amazing CD tonite ... at
>> PurdyFest last summer I was given a stack of books, chapbooks, even
>> a novel by Jim Christy. And then Jeff Seffinga asked me to be a
>> judge for the Acorn/Plantos Award, which required reading, sorting,
>> reading again, evaluating 30 books by 30 topnotch People's Poets.
>> Well, not all the poets were PP, and some of the books weren't
>> exactly PP either, all tho all had major merits.
>>
>> So the long & short of it is I felt completely burned out with
>> poetry stuff for most of the winter afterwards. And then I got
>> enthused again when Dr. John helped me start the R&R blog in late
>> Feb. But basically all the stuff I've been given to read, listen
>> to, etc. has just sat around the house in various piles.
>>
>> I finally got around to starting to sort thru them, & I did an
>> online review of Kent's first major collection on my blog last
>> nite. Quite incredible that he's published his first major
>> collection around age 70.
>>
>> So when I got yer email today, I knew I had to finally relapse, lie
>> in the dark, and play it start to finish before I could reply to you.
>>
>> Yep, it's the dark side - the dystopian vision which mankind has to
>> acknowledge is our rapidly arriving reality. Then Raven can return
>> with the light after man has lived thru his dark nite of the soul.
>>
>> My cable TV disappeared after a wild storm last week, & I'm
>> experimenting with cancelling it. So for the past week I've been
>> spending a lot of time listening to CDs late at nite instead of
>> vegging out to mindless boob tube shite. I've been playing the
>> Doors first album over and over, and I got some of the same vibe
>> from your chants. Morrison definitely channeled a lot of the dark
>> side, esp. on cuts like "the End".
>>
>> So I'm wondering if Dr. John would be interested in putting some
>> music to your chants? Of course it's up to you if you have any
>> interest in someone else messing with your work, & Dr. J would have
>> to listen to your CD & see if he's sympatico with it.
>>
>> Anyway, it's strong stuff, extremely powerful & your vocalizations
>> are mesmerizing (almost singing, esp. on that 'wolf' cut).
>>
>> I really think it's a good idea (an honour) to do a launch of your
>> CD at PF #5, & the questions are, what is the right time and the
>> right venue? I think having you perform around a campfire in the
>> dark is the more powerful place than on a sunlit island in the dam
>> on a Sat. afternoon.
>>
>> Maybe having the launch after the potluck supper, a la the Wilbur
>> performance you did last summer. That was the perfect time and
>> place - everyone was stuffed and sated, relaxed and ready for
>> Wilb's magickal appearance. I think maybe the same for your chants.
>>
>> I timed the CD at around 45 mins. - prob. a a bit long for a solo
>> performance, but maybe not.
>>
>> Then at the dam you could do a reprise perhaps of one or two of the
>> chant/songs.
>> We've still got a month and a half to plan things ...
>>
>> peace & love,
>> the Marm gang ...
>>
> wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof!
>
>> On 2011-06-15, at 11:33 AM, Jim Larwill wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey Chris,
>>>
>>> Was just thinking, sounds a bit quiet this year so if Morley wanted
>>> company at the opening of the Damn Reading I have the performance of
>>> songs and chants from Birdman Stoneman Incantation I could call
>> out to
>>> the crowd with... sort of a ceremonial opening... you could also
>>> advertise as the Marmora Launch for the CD if looking for publicity
>>> material.
>>>
>>> Anyway an idea... don't think Wilber can make it this year... but
>> watch> out he was mumbling about sending you an article about academic
>>> poets.... well at least he was being verbally abusive towards me
>> last> time he was here, but I wouldn't let him on my computer....
>> kicked him
>>> out but think I may have heard him rustling around in the woods...
>>>
>>> Anyway if you think adding to the opening is a good idea let me
>> know and
>>> I can send blurb material.
>>>
>>> RK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
--
Anna Yin
"Wings Toward Sunlight"
2011 by Mosaic Press
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