[ . . . . . . . ] Got You Down?
A little Sufjan Stevens to shoot you up, “For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti.” Press play, please.~~
But seriously, when was the last time you thought someone or something was beautiful?
Just wonderin’ …
7 Responses to “[ . . . . . . . ] Got You Down?”
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
AMY KING 
November 1st, 2007 at 2:07 am eDown Up Beauty?
The usual nauseau, in all its names and
peopled places, has me down.
The potential nears a peak, the ride slows.
It hurts. So much not-to-be.
I see beauty most often
when a face connects.
There: that moment.
Sometimes beauty brings blues.
Something your soul makes a hole for in an instant,
but you can never have. Those blues.
A whole life of never in reverse relief.
But sharing a thought, that moment,
is beauty. If it is just…what it is, no blues.
That brings me up.
What if we could share lots of them?
What if we used words?
November 1st, 2007 at 4:08 am eAh….. Sufjan Stevens is the artist.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:21 am eSmile
November 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm eUm, daily?
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:19 am eJoseph Arthur is great!
But dropping Sufjan’s beautiful low-fi piece
is dropping an obvious showcase item that
was driving clicks right into amazon to buy
CDs.
The record execs don’t even know when they
are f***ing themselves out of a seat at the table.
That vid wasn’t suitable fidelity for poaching, it was
perfect free marketing for albums and tickets.
That’s sort of beyond the music-stealing issue,
since it’s just a home-cam job.
Oh well….the future arrives, with or without them.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:57 am eAt a bar tonight sipping stout, watching a woman accompany herself on accordion while she sang so purely it hurt to watch.
I just asked this question over at the exquisite corpse. It’s a good question to ask. And often. Thank you.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:32 pm eExcellent moment, Erin. Reminded me of a small concert
I watched long ago. Stabbed by this one song. The stout
would have put it over the top.