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The dish.I can see him through the stuck slant of the door - his pale face like a gobstopper in the kitchen's dark mouth. It's warm, and he's wedgedThe dish.
every window open, slack-jawed,
the dusk settling like a pint.
The trees exhale a breath of birds into the street. He's washing up - I can hear him barrelling cups together like marbles,
bailing dishwater out around his feet. I watch the white shudder of a dish
as it plummets, blesses the floor with its small explosion.
Later, he shrouds the shards in newspaper, parcel for no
in Open 1w 14h ago
Untitled.Everyone said she wentUntitled.
as she would have wanted: in bed, the steaming pillar
of her coffee mug still warm
when they found her, sleeping. And so although I did not
go in to see her, I imagine that
if I had she would have been
smiling. You said, second-born,
that she seemed shrunken -
her face folded and brittle yet still bright; a white paper-lantern,
a moon. I imagine her fine flesh;
her fingers like driftwood, stiffened from knitting; her feet
pinched slender by decades
of sho
in Open on 4/24/08
The bell.Here I am -The bell.
brassy Miss Havisham. Parched by dust, clasped in crashing silence, I am present at every wedding.
Here I am -
madwoman in the attic. Mouth hanging open, echoes lacing my lips like poison; speaker of tongues.
Here I am -
stuttering Rapunzel. Climb my rope of hair, turn my head, and I will sing for you.
in Open on 4/17/08
My daughter speakingHer mouth was birthed by breath - womb-dumb for so long, waiting for the first hot cry. Then,My daughter speaking
whole nights; writhing in her crib, caught up in the nets of the night, her mouth a red howl. The first
tooth. I felt with her the pepper-sting of pain, her skull a hammer's nail,
lightning-conductor. (More crept up,
until they hemmed her lips
like lace, loaded her with consonants, and speech came.) Her first word
worked its way out; a splinter of sound, shocking us both.
in Open on 4/6/08
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- Current Residence: Edinburgh
- Interests: Words & pictures
- Favourite movie: Kate Winslet
- Favourite band or musician: Tom Waits
- Favourite artist: Leon
- Favourite poet or writer: Beat Generation
- Personal Quote: Withnail & I
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OK, be aware -- around 2001 his music changes quite dramatically and became rather... odd. His post-01 stuff on the Anti label is quite heavy, industrial and experimental. I love all of it in different ways but I'd recommend the earlier stuff, which is real quality.
Ok, geek-mode... you asked for it:
1973 - 1980, TW was signed to Asylum and made fantastic my-woman-done-me-wrong jazz and blues inspired records. Anything from this period is great... anything. Favourites of mine are 'Small Change' and 'Blue Valentine.'
1980 -- Heartattack and Vine was a transition-record. It's great, but fierce.
1983 - 1987 -- TW was signed to Island and made "the Island trilogy" -- three albums of nautical-sounding, pirate-y music and bluesy ballady loveliness, + some spoken-word. The Island trilogy are 'Swordfishtrombones,' ('83) 'Rain Dogs' ('85) and 'Frank's Wild Years' ('87) -- 'Rain Dogs' is my favourite of the three and was the first TW album I ever heard. I think it's a great one to start on. + it has '9th and Hennepin,' great spoken-word track, on it.
1989 - 2000 -- TW involved in various projects including 'The Black Rider' which is a weird album of dark circus-type music. In 1999 he made 'Mule Variations' which is fan-fucking-tastic and won a shitload of awards.
2001 -- 'Alice' and 'Blood Money' released... 'Alice' is great too.
2002 - present -- Couple more albums out, most recently 'Orphans,' a three-disc set of album tracks that never made albums, mostly from the Mule Variations era.
Albums you might want to avoid -- Bone Machine and Real Gone -- they're pretty weird... as is the Black Rider. They're great, but you might want to wait til you're more familiar with the Waitsian vibe before you stray into his experimental stuff...
Muaha, how was that for a response!
Hint: get Rain Dogs first.
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