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April 05, 2006
"War on Terror" (a song)
Tom Raworth
It was the 18th of March and the three year "anniversary" of the war in Iraq was heavy on minds -- at least for a lot of those at the i.e. reading series. A killer line up at Clayton Books: John Yau, Norma Cole and Tom Raworth.
To wrap up his part of the reading, Tom had brought a music box. It was the kind that you find in a kid's music box, and you would wind through punched sheets of paper to play a song -- like a player piano. Instead of composing by notes, he'd written "war on terror" across the card and then punched out the holes the lines crossed. And so he played...
Have a listen
let the page load...
(thanks to Michael Ball and his i.e. reading series)
John Yau - Norma Cole - Tom Raworth... sort of (and Nyago x 3)
Posted by Rock Heals at April 5, 2006 12:00 AM
