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Given away for free to participants of a Surrealist Festival at Penny Lane. 30 pages December 1, 1999 50 copies. Cover photo by Kai Sibley Cover design by Mikell Yamada 41 pages October 11, 1999 50 copies Continue Reading »
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Published December 1, 1999 48 pages, 50 copies Continue Reading »
November 15, 1999, Chuck Close Retrospective, Seattle Art Museum
In 1988, the painter Chuck Close suffered a stroke, which left him a quadriplegic. His first painting after his injury, returning to his portraits of Alex, was sadder but brighter than he expected. As a student, he’d been interested in the paintings of Willem de Kooning and had painted a number of “Willem de Kooning… Continue Reading »
October 15, 1999, “Surrealism” text for a multi-media performance at Penny Lane
SURREALISM In December 1919, the poet Tristan Tzara, one of the art terrorists who helped plot the Dadaist’s attack on culture at the Caberet Voltaire, arrived in Paris from Zurich. World War I was over and the pacifist Roumanian writer was free to travel. When he arrived in Paris, he quickly joined a group of… Continue Reading »
A Book of the Dead
Cover photo by Kai Sibley; cover design by Sarah Chesnutt 18 pages May 2, 1999 50 copies Continue Reading »
Here and Not Here
Given away to friends and others on the occasion of the poet’s 45th birthday. Cover photo by Kai Sibley 37 pages January 17, 1999 45 copies Continue Reading »
Deus Ex Machina
30 pages August 26, 1998 36 copies. Cover photo by Kai Sibley Continue Reading »
“Two Stories on Apprenticing with Allen Ginsberg”
I had written a little poem and in my excitement had immediately made two copies, which I put into the mailboxes of Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan, two of my teachers at Naropa in the spring of 1980. The next day I was over Allen’s house to work on some of his journals. He’d read… Continue Reading »
Federico Garcia Lorca (Text for a Multi-Media Performance at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art on the Centenary of Lorca’s Birth)
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Federico Garcia Lorca was born on June 5, 1898, in this house in Fuente Vaqueros, a village in the province of Grenada, in an area known as Andalusia, in southeast Spain. At the age of two Lorca was something of a mascot at the local grammar school where this photo was taken…. Continue Reading »
Three Songs
Poems: December 1997-February 1998 Given away for free to participants at a reading celebrating Tom Peters’ birthday at Penny Lane. Cover painting by Kai Sibley. 45 pages March 2, 1998 36 copies Continue Reading »