heep see 10-17
Fresh-caught fishscale, Journeying a little deeper into puddles, Cruising Arthur Russell in a city park
I keep thinking of a story in Cosmic Scholar, John Szwed’s very necessary/ maybe futile to understanding the man book on Harry Smith, wherein Harry points to dots and squiggles in his paintings like a college lecturer, each visual element precisely mapped to a moment in the seismic bebop 78 of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Manteca.” Listen as I might, I can’t char…
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