Will Alexander & Deep Time

Show description for Sunday 10/30/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this afternoon, in the 5 o'clock hour, poet Will Alexander. His most recent book, Compression & Purity, is new from City Lights. Also featured this week, new music from alto saxophonist and composer Darius Jones. His new disc, featuring Adam Lane on bass, and Jason Nazary on drums, is Big Gurl (Smell My Dream). We will also be listening in on the extraordinary 3 disc collection from William Parker Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake.

Few poets writing today can compare with L.A.-based surrealist Will Alexander in terms of the intensity of his imagination or his radically experimental approach to language as material object. Through the use of automatic writing, Alexander practices a surrealism of the word, creating densely textured layers of signification from its sounded and written forms. Compression & Purity, volume five of our Spotlight poetry series, is Alexander's seventh full-length collection. Known for his visionary epics influenced by poets like Césaire, Artaud and Lamantia, Alexander here returns to shorter forms to address his ecological, cosmological and historical concerns. Highlights include monologues from the perspective of "The Blood Penguin" and "The Pope at Avignon," a song by the "Water on New Mars," and an homage to Cesar Vallejo, "Combustion & Leakage." In true surrealist fashion, the book also includes both an autobiographical lyric essay, "My Interior Vita," describing the evolution of Alexander's artistic consciousness through jazz and surrealism, and his disavowal of the autobiographical process, "On Anti-Biography." An imaginative tour de force, Compression & Purity confirms Alexander's reputation among surrealism's foremost contemporary practitioners.

"This new & rich gathering of Will Alexander's works – always in progress – marks him again as the true successor among us to the likes of Surreal & deeply explorative figures like Breton & Césaire. No other poet writing in America today does it the way that Alexander does – a range of words & images that startle & create new pathways for language & the mind-in-freedom (“alchemical, mesmeric, totalic,” as he names them in these pages). Compression & Purity, so aptly titled, is the work of a true American & world master – & a joy to have & read." —Jerome Rothenberg

“Even at its most confounding, most silent level, this work will unavoidably enter and leave you by a genetic thread of conscious mind woven beyond your 'domestic horizon,; your ‘provincial description' to a vibrating ‘celebration of un-brokeneness.’ This song, in the genealogical terms of cognitive evolution, sings us backwards ‘or forwards’ into a state where we are undifferentiated from the cosmos and can speak, as Will Alexander does, in the full range at once of carbon from dust to diamond.” —Ed Roberson

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Does the Secret Mind Whisper? Nov. 11, 2011

• Friday NOV 11

"Does the Secret Mind Whisper?"
Will Alexander, Maria Damon and Justin Desmangles
a symposium on Bob Kaufman, Black surrealism, and cultural poetics
7:30 pm @ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street,



Co-sponsored with Before Columbus Foundation

“…the ‘secret mind’ represents the convergence of multiple cultural trajectories. It is the political unconscious of the US, which registers all the ‘secret, terrible hurts’ (Kaufman, “Bagel Shop Jazz”) visited upon people who belong to an ‘America not on any map’ (Will Alexander), the disenfranchised who may ruminate silently on these social, spiritual and bodily injuries but who may speak of them openly only at their peril.”

—Maria Damon, Jacket2, “Poetry in 1960, A Symposium”

"Does the Secret Mind Whisper?" was the gnomic open question posed by poet Bob Kaufman in an early City Lights broadside by that title. In collaboration with the Before Columbus Foundation, the Poetry Center hosts an evening symposium under that rubric, in order to take up the nature of Kaufman's legacy and practice, and its extensions into the 21st Century. Featured guests include poet-scholars Will Alexander and Maria Damon, in conversation with Bay Area writer, radio host/dj and cultural worker Justin Desmangles.

BOB KAUFMAN (1925–1986) was a key participant in the 1950s San Francisco poetry renaissance and the Beat movement. Author of three renowned poetry broadsides, Abomunist Manfesto, Second April, and Does the Secret Mind Whisper?, published in the late 1950s by City Lights Books, his poetry in print remained elusive until two collections came out in the mid-1960s. The landmark Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (1965), published by New Directions, has remained in print for better than four decades. Golden Sardine (1967) became a signature City Lights Pocket Poets volume alongside the works of renowned contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. During Kaufman's last decade, editor Raymond Foye assembled the volume of fugitive works, Ancient Rain: Poems 1956–1978 (New Directions, 1981). The posthumous collection, Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems, appeared in 1996 (Coffee House Press). Following Kaufman's death in 1986, a two-hour feature program, Bob Kaufman, Poet, was produced by David Henderson for KPFA-FM and aired nationally through the Pacifica network. Regarded in France as "the American Rimbaud," Bob Kaufman has been celebrated internationally for his particular mode of Surrealism, permeated by a profound affinity for the outcasts of American society, the poor and punished. The late saxophonist and jazz song composer Steve Lacy called Kaufman "the greatest jazz poet, and the beatest of the Beats."

WILL ALEXANDER (see bio above) has previously published the essay "Bob Kaufman: The Footnotes Exploded" in Conjunctions 29: Tributes.

MARIA DAMON (see bio above) his written on Bob Kaufman, extensively in her early book The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (University of Minnesota) and more recently online at Jacket2.

JUSTIN DESMANGLES hosts the radio program New Day Jazz, currently at KDVS-90.3 FM, and available online, a heady blend of music and cultural commentary, focused on the African-American cultural continuum. Frequent guests offer a largesse of inquiring and informed commentary, via conversations with, e.g., scholars William W. Cook and James Tatum on African American Writers and Classical Tradition; A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshlemen on their collaborative translation of Aimé Césaire's Solar Throat Slashed; Robin D.G. Kelley on his stellar biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; and jazz pianist Matthew Shipp on the legacy of Bud Powell. Chair of the Before Columbus Foundation, which hosts the annual American Book Award, Justin Desmangles has organized numerous public programs, at San Francisco Public Library and Yoshi's jazz club in San Francisco's Fillmore neighborhood, among other venues.

In a series of public programs on the life and legacy of Bob Kaufman under the title "Does the Secret Mind Whisper?" he recently brought together AACM co-founder Roscoe Mitchell with Kaufman's poetry in performances of original compositions. An upcoming November 14 Benefit for the Before Columbus Foundation at Yoshi's San Francisco will reunite Roscoe Mitchell and Amiri Baraka in duo performance, and feature the new Ishmael Reed Band.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion

Show description for Sunday 7/17/2011 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

All those ships that never sailed
The ones with their seacocks open
That were scuttled in their stalls...
Today I bring them back
Huge and transitory
And let them sail
Forever.

All those flowers that you never grew-
that you wanted to grow
The ones that were plowed under
ground in the mud-
Today I bring them back
And let you grow them
Forever.

All those wars and truces
Dancing down these years-
All in three flag swept days
Rejected meaning of God-

My body once covered with beauty
Is now a museum of betrayal.
This part remembered because of that one's touch
This part remembered for that one's kiss-
Today I bring it back
And let you live forever.

I breath a breathless I love you
And move you
Forever.

Remove the snake from Moses' arm...
And someday the Jewish queen will dance
Down the street with the dogs
And make every Jew
Her lover.


Bob Kaufman, poet. (from, The Ancient Rain)




Betye Saar, Ragtime, 2005, mixed media box assemblage, 19" x 20" x 2" Pictured above

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	Billy Kyle	Night Whispers	Jazz Piano 2	RCA - France
	Count Basie	I Never Knew	Jazz Piano 2	RCA - France
	Count Basie	Little Pony	From King Oliver To Ornette Coleman	CBS - France
	Charles Brown	Drifitn' Blues	Driftin' Blues	Aladdin
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	Ella Fitzgerald	This Time's The Dream's On Me	Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook	Verve
	Kenneth Patchen	23rd St. Runs Into Heaven	Reads His Poetry	Folkways
	Kenneth Patchen	The Lions Of Fire	Reads His Poetry	Folkways
	Willie "The Lion" Smith	Relaxin'	Jazz Piano 2	RCA - France
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	Gwendolyn Brooks	Song Of The Front Yard	Anthology Of Negro Poets	Anthology Of Negro Poets
	Charles Brown	Rolling Like A Pebble In The Sand	Driftin' Blues	Aladdin
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Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4

Show description for Sunday 11/21/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Please note: NDJ begins at 4:15 today, rather than 3:00.

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, we present part four of a four part series, Bob Kaufman, Poet.This radio documentary, created by David Henderson, originally aired on Pacifica Radio in 1991. For those not familiar with the life and work of Bob Kaufman, this is a wonderful opportunity to become acquainted with one of the most important poets of the Beat Generation.New Day Jazz extends special thanks to Q.R. Hand, Jr. for the use of these archival recordings.

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	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4	Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 4
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Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 3

Show description for Sunday 11/14/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Please note: NDJ begins at 3:15 today, rather than 3:00.

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, we present part three of a four part series, Bob Kaufman, Poet.This radio documentary, created by David Henderson, originally aired on Pacifica Radio in 1991. For those not familiar with the life and work of Bob Kaufman, this is a wonderful opportunity to become acquainted with one of the most important poets of the Beat Generation.New Day Jazz extends special thanks to Q.R. Hand, Jr. for the use of these archival recordings.

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Bob Kaufman, Poet: Part 2

Show description for Sunday 11/7/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, we present part two of a four part series, Bob Kaufman, Poet.
This radio documentary, created by David Henderson, originally aired
on Pacifica Radio in 1991. For those not familiar with the life and
work of Bob Kaufman, this is a wonderful opportunity to become
acquainted with one of the most important poets of the Beat Generation.
New Day Jazz extends special thanks to Q.R. Hand, Jr. for the use of
these archival recordings.

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	Bob Kaufman, Poet Part Two	Bob Kaufman, Poet Part Two	Bob Kaufman, Poet Part Two	Bob Kaufman, Poet Part Two
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	Ed O.G. featuring Umar Bin Hassan	Easy Comes Easy Goes (Jazz Poet Mix)

A Tiger In Each Eye by Bob Kaufman

White tiger I hear your
Hum on the drone
Flowing on beds of
Fresh snow on springs
Flowing back to the nether
source,
The truth is an empty
bowl of rice
Those cathode men who cage
you shall melt
In the summer sun,
For they are ugly bars
Who echo the sting of
Unholy rivers in their dried cracked
Bed.





from The Ancient Rain
by Bob Kaufman

Celestial Hobo, a poem by Bob Kaufman

Celestial Hobo



For every remembered dream
There are twenty nighttime lifetimes.

Under multiplied arcs of sleep
Zombie existences become Existence.

In night's warped rectangles
Stormy bathtubs of wavy sex
Come hotly drawn.

Everyday, confused in desperate poses,
Loses its hue, to Dada prodigies of black.
There never was a night that ended
Or began.













from Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness,
New Directions

Brian Ang Interviews Justin Desmangles

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Show Description for Sunday 12/06/2009
5pm: Interviewing Justin Desmangles on the Bob Kaufman celebration and Roscoe Mitchell performance next week in SF and on his own work

Morning Joy

Morning Joy


Piano buttons, stitched on morning lights.
Jazz wakes the day,
As I awaken with jazz, love lit the night.
Eyes appear and disappear,
To lead me once more to a green moon.
Streets paved with opal sadness,
Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,
And jazz.



by Bob Kaufman