DICK HIGGINS - POEMS AND METAPOEMS - SOMETHING ELSE PRESS - LP 2017 - FLUXUS

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DICK HIGGINS
POEMS AND METAPOEMS
RECITAL THIRTY THREE, 2017
LP Edition of 470
Recital presents a reissue of Dick Higgins's Poems And Metapoems, originally released on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics in 1982. 
Label head Sean McCann on the reissue: "Since the beginning of Recital, I have been trying to publish the work of Dick Higgins. He is a chief figure in my artistic world, a hero of mine. And now, with the assistance of Charlie Morrow, it has finally happened. The first vinyl album ever published of Higgins! 
Many know Dick Higgins as the father of intermedia, a key player in the birth of fluxus, and the owner/operator of the fabulous Something Else Press. 
His own poetry is what stirred me. Namely, his book Foew & Ombwhnw (1969), which contains one of my favorite of his works, 'Moments in the Lives of Great Women,' along with other lovely poems (some included on this LP). 
This recording is of Dick himself reading his own poetry. Poems And Metapoems begins with a voice/tape manipulation piece from 1962, while the rest of the collection employs only language manipulation. Alike a cantor, each word is delivered perfectly with strong warmth. His ability to relay pattern-based poems into sonics is impressive. 
This album was recorded in 1982, and contains the reading of poems written between 1958-1980. Originally published as a cassette tape by New Wilderness Audiographics, which is nearly impossible to find now. The audio has been remastered and cleaned up for this edition. 
Dick lived large and was a busybody. All the faucets were running within him, handles broken off. Always pulling to mesh painfulness with playfulness, heart-warmth with heartbreak, comedy with tragedy etc. It is this plurality that Higgins encourages us to spark and flourish." 
Includes a 16-page pamphlet of notes and poetry by Higgins and an essay on both Higgins and New Wilderness Audiographics by Charlie Morrow.
Track Listing:
A1. Requiem For Wagner The Crimal Mayor, 2 Excerpts  A2. Long Tail From Jessie  A3. Love Song For Straights  A4. Meta-  A5. Lyrical Text #12  A6. Lyrical Text #13  A7. The Pendulum  A8. Poem 1963  A9. Portrait Of A Woman  A10. [Greek Title]  A11. Scenario  A12. Six Considerations Of The Angel  A13. Snowflake: Dark Room, Dark Rose  A14. Snowflake For A Friend Who Went Completely Straight  A15. Snowflake: Man's Heart's Mirror's  A16. Snowflake: Which Shines Brighter?  A17. The Snowflakes Of Giordano Bruno  A18. Song For Marilyn  A19. Structures (For Cary And Linda)  A20. Two Things About The Woods  A21. A Winter Carol  A22. Winter Seascape 
B1. As: Another Seven  B2. Boris Blastoff Finally Dreams About Life  B3. Boris Blastoff's You-Play-It Crapshooting Song  B4. Caryatid: I Am  B5. Hello, Serbes-Marines  B6. The Dawn Police  B7. For Several  B8. Four Women  B9. Gentle Talk  B10. How The Abbot Trilled With His Lady Easy Yet  B11. A Hymn At Night
New Condition - Never Played - Never Sealed
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