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Ashes and Sparks Amongst Mankind: Uncollected Writings 2001
April 15, 2002 86 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
Dissolve: Screenplays to the Films of Stan Brakhage, Volume II
April 15, 2002 84 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
March 8, 2002 “The Life and Times of Jane Faigao”
THE LIFE AND WORK OF JANE FAIGAO A MEMOIR PROJECT I can remember the first and last thing that I learned from Jane Faigao. The first thing she taught me was that I was a lot bigger than I realized. It was my first Boulder winter in January 1980, and I was studying Tai Chi… Continue Reading »
That the Work Is Shown: Screenplays to the Films of Stan Brakage, Volume I
March 1, 2002 104 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
A Distant Landscape: The “Dream Language” Poems
March 1, 2002 23 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
January 19, 2002, “The Ballad of William Blake” performance text, Naropa Institute
The Ballad of William Blake John Thomas Smith published a profile of William Blake in 1829, two years after Blake’s death, beginning with the words “I believe it has been invariably the custom of every age, whenever a man has been found to depart from the usual mode of thinking, to consider him of deranged… Continue Reading »
“John Milton’s Argument” (from LIT)
John Milton’s Argument He rose from his desk and paced the room. He despised his loss of virtue, and it excited him as well. Then the vision ended, the dusky clouds descending, darkening the landscape, the evening dissolving into restless thoughts. First in brief, the whole subject—how legions of angels were driven into a great… Continue Reading »
Conversation with Tamra Spivey, November 2001
Randy Roark’s Mona Lisa’s Veil: Selected Poems 1979-2001 will be released in December 2001 by Baksun Books. Tamra Spivey is lead singer of Lucid Nation, an ever-changing ensemble who most recently included drummer Patty Schemel of Hole and bassist Greta Brinkman of Moby’s band. Tamra: I learned from your note about Kerouac and Ginsberg’s “practiced”… Continue Reading »
November 17, 2001, Review of Lucid Nation’s “The New Return”
Lucid Nation: “The New Return” Fifteen songs from the L.A. improv collective known as Lucid Nation, the only band I know that uncompromisingly insists that all of their lyrics are improvised along with the music. “The New Return” begins as if midstream with “Point of No Return,” a song built on the changes to… Continue Reading »
What I Wrote on September 11, 2001
In Praise of Contented Mind According to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, “In Praise of Contented Mind” was one of the most popular Elizabethan ballads, and was published anonymously (as ballads often were at the time). Ironically (referring to the contents of the ballad), several aristocratic poets are most often suggested as its author,… Continue Reading »