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Spoken Word, Poetry/Jazz featuring poet Cassandra Cleghorn with gifted musicians Erik Lawrence on saxophones and flutes, Rene Hart on bass and Allison Miller on drums.
Genre:
Spoken Word: With Music
Release Date:
2006
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Record Label: MERGE
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“Merge is an exciting and highly creative new collaboration between the intimate and innovative poetry of Cassandra Cleghorn and the brilliant supportive music created on the spot by Erik Lawrence and members of his band Hipmotism, Allison Miller and Rene Hart.
In an era when Spoken Word has finally come to fruition, the spirit of ensemble and spontaneity that Jack Kerouac and I pioneered in NYC's first-ever jazz poetry reading in 1957 are now reaching new plateaus.
Merge is another step forward in celebrating the marriage of poetry and music.”
David Amram
September 10, 2006
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HONEY
If I really wanted you to hear—
to remember what I’m saying,
I’d write these words in honey,
in a language you don’t yet know.
Have you trace each letter
with your tongue,
have you swallow
lesson upon lesson
until you beg
for a little salt.
Then, all talked out,
I would give you
a crust
brushed with tears.
This, this
is listening.
Cassandra Cleghorn
May 2006
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