Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Will Alexander, Poet

Show description for Sunday 11/18/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Will Alexander

Mr. Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The latter is central to Alexander’s expanding inner range, which has allowed him access to levels of mind beyond the three-dimensional as boundary. He thereby explores the full dimensionality of each word. For him, each word has access to not only the median level of three-dimensional experience, but also partakes of experience on both the supra and subconscious planes. His praxis of language is not unlike the Mayan numerical world where each letter of the alphabet spontaneously engages in non-limit. Thus, all the fields of experience are open for exploration. Art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, poetics, each being a portion of the fields open for exploration. His books include Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Compression and Purity, Sunrise In Armageddon, Diary As Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace, Towards The Primeval Lightning Field, and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents.



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Duke Ellington Pitter Patter PantherAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington PyramidAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington Portrait Of The LionAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington I'm Checking Out, GoombyeAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington CottontailAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington Blue Light (Take 2)An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Ron CarterRallyWhere?New Jazz
Eric DolphyMiss AnnFar CryNew Jazz
Adrienne RichPowerA Sign / I Was Not Alone Out & Out Books
Jayne Cortez & Richard DavisSoloCelebrations & SolitudesStrata-East
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Audre LordeHarrietA Sign / I Was Not Alone Out & Out Books
Andrew HillSiete OchoJudgement!Blue Note
Andrew HillOde To VonSmokestackBlue Note
Andrew HillPoinsettia One For One Blue Note - Reissue Series
Andrew HillDiddy Wah One For One Blue Note - Reissue Series
LaVern BakerSoul On FireLaVern BakerAtlantic
Ray CharlesThe Right TimeRay Charles at NewportAtlantic
Ray CharlesI've Got A WomanRay Charles at NewportAtlantic
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Carmen McRaeBye, Bye BlackbirdBy Special RequestDecca
Carmen McRaeGeorgia RoseBy Special RequestDecca
Carmen McRaeFlamingoBy Special RequestDecca
Charles MingusFlamingoTijuana MoodsRCA
Charles MingusLos Mariachis (Alternate Take)Tijuana MoodsRCA
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Jean-Claude EloyEquivalences (excerpt)Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical EnsembleEverest
Will Alexander Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesWill Alexander Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesWill Alexander Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesWill Alexander Interviewed By Justin Desmangles
Jean-Claude EloyEquivalences (excerpt)Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical EnsembleEverest
Henri PousseurMadrigal III (excerpt)Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical EnsembleEverest

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