Monday, January 30, 2012

Quincy Troupe Errançities

Show description for Sunday 1/29/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, essayist, editor, Quincy Troupe. We will be discussing his most recent collection, Errancities, as well as his new recording, SOUNDART a new tongue.

Many of the poems in Errançities had their origins in my visits to the beautiful French-speaking island of Guadeloupe. “Errance” is a French word meaning to “to wander,” or a “roving, wandering life,” also, “a risky, edgy, wandering life.” The title poem, “Errançities,” exemplifies all these concepts for me, as do other poems in the collection. I first discovered the word while reading the poems of Edouard Glissant, the late, distinguished poet, philosopher, novelist, and critical thinker from Martinique. I fell in love with the word and its meaning, and it seemed to apply to my life and the poems I was writing at the time—poems about different places I was visiting in the world.

But, and although I love the word “errance” and what it means, I felt it wasn’t exactly what I needed. So I coined the neologism errançities, an expression I felt more at home with, especially in the way the new word sounded, rolled off my tongue, and because it contains the word “cities” in it. In my mind I think of the word as a noun, because it identifies people, animals, places or things, even abstract concepts.

The rhythm and tone of errançities was also closer to another neologism of mine, Trancircularities, which was the title of my seventh book of poems, published by Coffee House in 2002. Also, in my mind, errançities means plural wanderings of many lives, rather than one life. Thus, Errançities is the title of this new book of poems: I hope you enjoy some of them.

—Quincy Troupe, January 19th, 2012, New York City

photo of Quincy Troupe by Chris Felver


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Bud Powell Shaw 'Nuff1960 Essen, GrugahalleWDR

Woody HermanFour BrothersWoody Herman & His OrchestraColumbia

Gerry MulliganAs Catch CanWhat Is There To Say?Columbia

Hank MobleyUh HuhWorkoutBlue Note
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Big Joe TurnerShake, Rattle & RollThe Boss Of The BluesColumbia

Lonnie YoungJim & JohnSouthern Folk Heritage Series: Sounds Of The SouthAtlantic

Alec AskewEmmaline, Take Your TimeThe Land Where the Blues Began Alan Lomax Collection

Miles & Bob PratcherButtermilkI'm Gonna Live Till I Die AnyhowField Recordings of Alan Lomax

Bo Diddley Mumblin' GuitarHave Guitar Will TravelChess

Ray CharlesMovin' OnHallelujah, I Love Her So!Atlantic

Howlin' WolfGoing Down SlowHowlin' WolfChess
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Erroll GarnerStairway To The StarsPortraitDocuments (Japan)

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Earl Hines Piano ManEarl Hines & His OrchestraRCA

Maynard Ferguson featuring Hank JonesThat Jones Boy Birdland Dream BandFresh Sound (Spain)

George Russell featuring Bill EvansAll About RosieThe Birth Of The Third StreamColumbia

Charles Mingus Gunslinging BirdMingus DynastyColumbia
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Lou LevyDing Dong The Witch Is DeadSolo SceneFresh Sound (Spain)

Hank MobleyRoll CallRoll Call Blue Note

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