Report #37

This week's poem is by the extraordinary poet and essayist William Heyen: "The Gift" from his collection Pterodactyl Rose - Poems of Ecology. (Time Being Books, 1991).

You can also read some of Heyen's poetry that I've recently published at CounterPunch: "Emancipation Proclamation" and "Angels."

Music this week is a jazz classic, originally known as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" and renamed on this album to "Theme for Lester Young." Mingus wrote this song as an elegy for Young who died shortly before the recording session for Ah Um where the song makes its debut. This episode features the reworking of this song found on Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus.

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Report #37