Suffersurge ... or Colloquy In Black Rock

No.104, aired January 5, 2011, featuring an on-air reading from Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s volume of bone-hard, dark-as-hell verse from 1946.

Part 1

1. Energy Surge – Layaway Plan
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. No Guru – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Crazy Boys – Clones
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
6. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats

Part 2

1. Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
2. Open Aspect No.1.1 – Anthony Braxton -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
3. Controlling Me – Suffersurge
4. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
5. Deathsmarch / Sorceress – Cancer Bats

Poems read with Phlegra: The Exile’s Return / The Holy Innocents / Colloquy At Black Rock / Christmas At Black Rock / New Year’s Day / Winter In Dunbarton

Poems read with Open Aspect No.1.1: The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket / Christmas Eve Under Hooker’s Statue / The Drunken Fisherman