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Sean Singer was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and grew up in Florida. He received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999 and has won scholarships to Bread Loaf and the Catskills Poetry Workshop.

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Discography

Yale University Press

Contents

Foreword by W. S. Merwin......................................................................ixAcknowledgments...............................................................................xiii1The Old Record................................................................................3Photo of John Coltrane, 1963..................................................................5Ellingtonia...................................................................................6Silver Gelatin................................................................................9Scintillatingly Armstrong.....................................................................10The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.....................12Robert Johnson (the film, the car ride, & the ghost)..........................................13"Musical shape is the memory of movement".....................................................15Who Can Stay the Bottles of Heaven?...........................................................17Billie, Later.................................................................................18Frida Kahlo...................................................................................21The Fine Satin of the Eureka Brass Band.......................................................23Lena Horne and Billy Strayhorn in Her Dressing Room...........................................25But Beautiful.................................................................................26The Clarinet..................................................................................27Inside the Keith Jarrett Trio.................................................................28Transference of the Blues Dynamism............................................................29Susie Ibarra as a Butterfly...................................................................31False Love....................................................................................322The Garden of Delights........................................................................35Singer Finds His Own Name Among the Dead......................................................37"But truly I do fear it"......................................................................38The Tiger Interior............................................................................39Goat Moving Through a Boa Constrictor.........................................................41The Exact Diagrams of German Professors.......................................................43The Golem.....................................................................................45A History of Ota Benga........................................................................46Loss..........................................................................................50The Burghers of Calais........................................................................51Krekhtsn......................................................................................52Dear Singer,..................................................................................56S.S.S.S.......................................................................................58Bouquet with Flying Lovers....................................................................59The Noise.....................................................................................60Poem..........................................................................................62Poem with Memories............................................................................63Home..........................................................................................64The Emotional Content of Inner Organs.........................................................65Self..........................................................................................67The Gift......................................................................................68A Significant Poem............................................................................69Finding Love as an Equation...................................................................70A Soul........................................................................................71Loss..........................................................................................72The Vocal Fabric of the Soprano...............................................................73"Dear heart, how like you this?"..............................................................74It Moves So Slowly That It Does Not Move......................................................75Poem with Groucho Marx Refrains...............................................................76Singer and Circumcision.......................................................................77The Sweet Obsession Bleeds from Singer........................................................78[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE BY ANSII]..............................................................79Notes.........................................................................................81

Chapter One

rolled out of the hot machine the Scully Automated Lathe, covered in oil, rigged to the metal ends, dying of spin, metal on black, back to back thimble weights, diamond and rinsed to a new shine, lunge and pull into circles, 100 grooves to the centimeter, calling it vinyl, midnight candle,

drops onto the place with the push of the nidifugous chirping needle, a bell crank leadplant, resting in a red scissor over the lumps of steel, then rising with throstle smoke, jazz dust, rumbly with the Blues, the old rumormonger taking us to the juke, (the Bambara word that is wicked !)

bouncing resin polymer lost to the racy sough of "Baby she got a phonograph, and it won't say a lonesome word Baby she got a phonograph and it won't say a lonesome word What evil have I done what evil has the poor girl heard?"

Photo of John Coltrane, 1963

Otherworldly and outreaching, A Parnassus of noise with a serious Glint of inestimable Worry on his face,

O Coltrane what will ring From your pious Gleaming Antillean Euphonia, so capable, Swift, with no trace,

No trace of stillness? The blur Of the gray-gray and gris-gris Flows hornward to the black bell

Of the saxophone, a cylinder Of joy, an empurpled sea Of heaven ebbing into hell.

Ellingtonia

for Edward Kennedy Ellington

1 ... And the lamp caught fire after he put a blue cashmere sweater over it. Subtle as a Nance obbligato on...