Ice Mountain now available in music form
It started as a series of poems on Via Negativa, and now Ice Mountain is not just a book but an album, too.
It started as a series of poems on Via Negativa, and now Ice Mountain is not just a book but an album, too.
Australian singer and artist Marie Craven is one of my favorite makers of poetry videos. She’s made two videos based on poems from Ice Mountain.
Belgian artist and musician Marc Neys A.K.A. Swoon is one of the most original makers of videopoetry (AKA poetry film) in the world.
How and why Beth Adams and I came to make the book Ice Mountain.
This is one of 14 new photos of this morning’s spectacular de-icing — go watch the slideshow. Once it starts, be sure to click the little four-arrows icon on the bottom right to expand to full screen. If you’re on dial-up (or using an iPad) you’re probably better off to browse the set. The photos …
the peak is an old acquaintance
who seems to be wise
and say little
against the snow
to a man who lacks
the ears for it
seems to offer a way
to not understand
you might think you know but that’s never what knowing means a light last seen in winter with sharp-edged shadows two high hanging valleys filled with forest where the only fields are boulder fields this is the complex head of an Appalachian dragon that the locals have been led to believe is a mountain all …
This comes and goes: missing mountains wrapped in nothing but fog. You remember your very first winter: icicles brittle in the trees, new friends warning— Don’t go out in this kind of cold with your hair still wet from the shower. It was oddly beautiful to picture. A glass piano. Your head, a forest unhusked, …
We have our own private mountains, but are they already too tired from waiting for us? Etel Adnan a break in the rain itself a break in the snow i take a chance on a walk on my own mountain the one i live on but also the one that lives in my head without …
I am always looking for mountains. Where I am, the fingers of the estuary mix fresh and salt water. Along strips of highway, furniture stores and short- term car rentals hum with their own kind of static impatience. In summer, ships make a procession into the bay, their flags furling the colors of countries elsewhere. …