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Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Slash Radio Hour, I'm Really Astonished by Your Reading of Cecil Taylor

i am really amazed by your reading of the poem. Cecil taylor, not only his amazing outfit, which i both am jealous of and just amazed by,. And this kind of flirty, a wise, musical character that he has even when he's not playing music. Young cecil was extraordinary. I don't think anyone will ever meet someone like cecil taylor. But also, if you heard em play, the actual dissonance a, the movement, the cocophiny, the triple andjamment of just the ines kind of stacking up on each other toppling over - so wild, youow and startling.

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