Genre: United States
Paperback: 44 pages

Description: Touring the Nation with Jazz and Poetry during Election Season 04

Synopsis:

Kirpal Gordon, spoken word performer and Claire Daly, monster of the baritone saxophone, traveled the country following the available (and some unavailable) gigs, visiting friends, publishers, fellow musicians, and others. Kirpal gets it all down in his inimitable beat prosody, and he pulls no punches on the politics of America, which was sliding toward a second George W. Bush "victory."

A poet with unstoppable chops, Kirpal Gordon is a spewer of jewels with the baddest ear in the hemisphere & an unbelievably well-hung mother tongue. He's not just whistlin' or kindlin' Dixie: Gordon's got a reach equal to his grasp, & both exceed the legal limit. He knows language, in the Biblical sense, but he's also slept with jazz & death & self-deception & the bone-deep desolation created by such euphemistic entities as the criminal justice system. Whirling precise tenderness & eloquent messiness in his devotional blender, he never forgets that the woe is in the rational & the jewel is in the lotus. His gaze may waver; his words never blink. His singing is lucid & essential. He sings what the rest of us merely think.
     -- Mikhail Horowitz, author of The Blues of the Birth

Kirpal Gordon contains multitudes. Among them: love, the classics, jazz, the mystics, nature, the gutter. But the greatest of these is love.
     -- Barbara Wright, translator

Beautifully written, full of vivid evocations, Kirpal Gordon's sentences are like jazz saxophone solos. I love his tome madly.
     -- Tim Price, Saxophone Journal

If instrumental jazz could talk, it would sound like What We Got against Tyranny. Far from the banalities of most lyrics, Gordon's words gives us the rhythm of play and subversion, the motion that refuses to be tamed, as different from mainstream poetry as a waterfall is from a toilet.
     -- Stephen-Paul Martin, author of Instead of Confusion

Product Details:

· Paperback: 44 pages
· Binding: Saddle
· Publisher: Leaping Dog Press (March 2006)
· Product Number: 030-50737818