Electric Bathtub Psalms - More Audio

The first sales of Electric Bathtub Psalms shipped out yesterday, and Mariette and I are really delighted by the response we've had so far.

To celebrate the launch, I'm posting another audio sample from the book that also appeared in the installation "Love Song 4.22" at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn in April. A description and illustration of the installation are also included in the book. 

Here's Mariette's description of the recording:

"I recorded this piece two years after it was written so I could install as part of a piece on cyberspace. The installation piece and the poem now share the same name. Love Song 4/22 was produced by David Maurice and includes field recordings taken by me. It is an emotional tribute to ballads and to the natural world."

The Rabbit Sellers

Here's an audio preview of the poem "The Rabbit Sellers," which will appear in my collection Geography and Circumstance later this fall. The poem was originally published in The Dry Crik Review of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry back in 1992, and was later reproduced on cowboypoetry.com. The poem documents the boom/bust days of central Wyoming in the late 80s and early 90s. While it's not traditional cowboy poetry, I think it captures the paradoxes and dichotomies of modern Western life.

The Corn Plastic Dancefloor

I'm slowly beginning to assemble the limited editions of Mariette Papic's Electric Bathtub Psalms. In the meantime, here is a link to one of Mariette's current projects over at dublit.com. Mariette has been involved in New York nightlife for many years - as promoter, documentor, flyer designer, and as the pretty girl in the coat with the big fur collar presiding over the velvet rope at that club on 13th Street, you know the one. Her audio piece "The Corn Plastic Dancefloor" documents one night in that world.