geared up for Santa with a song in our beards
Derseem has gone Christmas with two songs
the first is a tribute to the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ
the second is an impromptu rehearsal of an old favourite
you can download them here
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SFAA REVIEW
i got my copy of tao lin’s shoplifting from american apparel today.
although i almost didn’t. i almost overlooked it. my name was not on the envelope and i almost assumed it was spam.
i was taken aback by the slight nature of the book. it’s thin and unassuming, not something i initially expected knowing the kind of person tao is.
but i suppose he meant it when he dubbed it a novella.
i finished all 103 pages of the book in an hour. it did not move me in any specific way.
however i feel the entire nature of the book can be summed up on page 62, in the dead center:
“It’s okay,” said Sam. “Hester said you like computers. I play piano.”
had james chapman not told me tao was once a fantastic pianist, this line would certainly have passed me by.
tao’s writing is easy and ironic. tao’s playing was, i’m told, full of life and gorgeous vigor.
i’m ending this review with the suggestion that tao plays piano again. in public. with beauty and vigor.
VIOLENT PROTEST
VIOLENT PROTEST
Words are powerful
things. Especially holy words.
“There’s anxiety that there will
be violence and shooting. I shout
Speaking in the Oval Office,
spilling out into the streets.
Thousands of riot police
scuffle during their potential for violence
abortion-rights supporters
use only the private money
for abortion coverage.
Whoever in the Secret
Service screwed up — plus
whether he would seek to redirect
some of the repaid money from the
$700 billion troubled comfort.
drink the water
unfiltered. Then I’ll believe
it’s safe,”
turning
carah & i are pleased to announce derseem’s first full-length turning is complete
we plan to release it for the new year
tracklist :
1. violet eyes
2. writing center
3. checking in
4. jesus (for ee cummings)
5. tigers have lily children
6. stop (featuring jam’s)
7. the editor (featuring andré r. guérin)
8. the body navigable
9. cpd
10. hastily
11. single
12. hallah-hallah
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violet eyes is already a single. you can listen here
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single is also a single. you can listen here
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[we both thank you for continued support and willing ears]
this is what reading Gwendolyn Brooks all week does to a person
i never write rhyming poetry. but now i do. thanks Gwen.
out her bag empties: delves
a tobacco or two—hot glue
a carton of something rolled
off art-table shelves
or pocketed & sold
she sings things (like rings keys
or toothpicks) which dumped quick
get buried in knees
she displays for the heat of the day
broken beads of red clay
nicked from her lover
after blowing his cover
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also
Carah Naseem to me
show details 9:30 PM (18 hours ago)
vend
i finished a track for winter called ‘vend’
it’s an instrumental
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