Discography

by Sean Singer; Foreword by W.S. Merwin

• ISBN13: 9780300093636
• ISBN10: 0300093632
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-11-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
W. S. Merwin
Acknowledgments	xiii
1
The Old Record	3	(2)
Photo of John Coltrane, 1963	5	(1)
Ellingtonia	6	(3)
Silver Gelatin	9	(1)
Scintillatingly Armstrong	10	(2)
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly	12	(1)
Robert Johnson (the film, the car ride, & the ghost)	13	(2)
``Musical shape is the memory of movement''	15	(2)
Who Can Stay the Bottles of Heaven?	17	(1)
Billie, Later	18	(3)
Frida Kahlo	21	(2)
The Fine Satin of the Eureka Brass Band	23	(2)
Lena Horne and Billy Strayhorn in Her Dressing Room	25	(1)
But Beautiful	26	(1)
The Clarinet	27	(1)
Inside the Keith Jarrett Trio	28	(1)
Transference of the Blues Dynamism	29	(2)
Susie Ibarra as a Butterfly	31	(1)
False Love	32	(3)
2
The Garden of Delights	35	(2)
Singer Finds His Own Name Among the Dead	37	(1)
``But truly I do fear it''	38	(1)
The Tiger Interior	39	(2)
Goat Moving Through a Boa Constrictor	41	(2)
The Exact Diagrams of German Professors	43	(2)
The Golem	45	(1)
A History of Ota Benga	46	(4)
Loss	50	(1)
The Burghers of Calais	51	(1)
Krekhtsn	52	(4)
Dear Singer	56	(2)
S.S.S.S.	58	(1)
Bouquet with Flying Lovers	59	(1)
The Noise	60	(2)
Poem	62	(1)
Poem with Memories	63	(1)
Home	64	(1)
The Emotional Content of Inner Organs	65	(2)
Self	67	(1)
The Gift	68	(1)
A Significant Poem	69	(1)
Finding Love as an Equation	70	(1)
A Soul	71	(1)
Loss	72	(1)
The Vocal Fabric of the Soprano	73	(1)
``Dear heart, how like you this?''	74	(1)
It Moves So Slowly That It Does Not Move	75	(1)
Poem with Groucho Marx Refrains	76	(1)
Singer and Circumcision	77	(1)
The Sweet Obsession Bleeds from Singer	78	(1)
N	79	(2)
Notes	81