SOUL OF A NATION ~

 

Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power - Underground Jazz, Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79

COWBOY JACK CLEMENT'S HOME MOVIES ~

 

A Documentary about Nashville's Maverick songwriter/producer, 'Cowboy' Jack Clement

DAMIEN RICE ~

 

   14th Floor Records

 Feb. 1, 2002

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ~

 from Song of Hiawatha

And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,

The Wabenos, the Magicians,

And the Medicine-men, the Medas,

Painted upon bark and deer-skin

Figures for the songs they chanted,

For each song a separate symbol,

Figures mystical and awful,

Figures strange and brightly colored;

And each figure had its meaning,

Each some magic song suggested.

_______________________

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Love Thy Poet Forever Series

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PATTI SMITH AND THE PEOPLE ~

 

       March 23, 2026

R.L. BURNSIDE TONIGHT ~

 

    1978

MALICK SIDIBE ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Foundation Cartier

     2017

AUGIE MEYERS ~

 

A U G I E   M E Y E R S

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M O R E

DEBORAH DIGGES ~

    

    So Light You Were

I Would Have Carried You

So light you were

I would have carried you,

hacked from the ice

a bridge,

you in my arms,

from February into April.

And crossed

above the snow

banked narrowing

the streets, this winter's

tired citizens, the erlking

and his foundling crossing.

Light as you were

I would have carried you

from the room

of your death back

to our room,

climbed back,

crawled up the stairs

to our bed.

From February into

April, hid in your arms

in the woods

frantic please.

Light as we were.

And could be carried out

on a float of last year's

leaves

and bracken thaw

rinsing the tide pools.

So light you were.

I would have carried you

from February

into April.

___________________________

Deborah Digges

Trapeze

Knopf, 2004

PRINCE TONIGHT ~

 

Parade - Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.

ROBERT M. WEST ~

 

Heartbeat

Hold me

too

close to

tell

whose is

whose.

Echo

A lone

voice

in the

right

empty space

makes

its own

best

company.

Exposure

What you're

eager to

believe may

say more

about you

than you'd

be eager

to admit.

Ulysses

Even frailer,

bound for failure

die at sea or home

I roam.

________________________________

Robert M. West

A Clear Eye

Broadstone Books, 2026