Orange man, orange man — where have you gone?It came to pass, not to the glare of banners nor to the roaring place of crowds,but into the rooms where sound unthreads itself into quiet,into the slow, cool places where applause, like dust, lies down and sleeps;and the lamps that once took your colour now burn … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.8 (a political elegy, or effigy, depending on how you see it…)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wilderness: The Lost Writings Vol. 1 by Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison’s Wilderness reads like the private notebook of a performative prophet: half-oracular lyric, half-fractured meditation, constantly shifting between erotic delirium and cold metaphysical curiosity. As a volume of “lost writings” drawn from a celebrity-poet whose musical persona already blurred the line between poet and performer, Wilderness asks a reader to do two things at … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wilderness: The Lost Writings Vol. 1 by Jim Morrison
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.7 (a political narrative😉😉)
Orange man, orange man — where have you gone?Not to the scoreboard or the stage, but to the slow rooms of the night,where applause cools into dust and banners are folded like small graves. Orange man, orange man — what did you leave?A house full of echoes: canned laughter, a ledger of promises, a suit … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.7 (a political narrative😉😉)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Lords and The New Creatures by Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison’s The Lords and The New Creatures arrives at the reader like a recorded improvisation—uneven, urgent, and saturated with moments of startling clarity. Originally assembled from two short volumes first issued in the late 1960s, the text functions less as a conventional poetic sequence than as a series of charged tableaux: flashes of eroticism, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Lords and The New Creatures by Jim Morrison
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.6 (a political narrative😉😉)
Orange man, orange man — where do you go?To podiums that smell of new paint and glow. Orange man, orange man — what do you do?I wrap debt in ribbon, sign it, and call it truth. Orange man, orange man — why do we live?To clap at the echo that keeps the poor on the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.6 (a political narrative😉😉)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Riders of the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors. by John Densmore
John Densmore’s Riders of the Storm is at once an intimate memoir and a corrective history: part loving excavation of a band’s inner life, part juridical record of what fame does to art and friendship. Written by the Doors’ drummer, the book performs a delicate double move — it insists on the primacy of the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Riders of the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors. by John Densmore
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.5 (a more political narrative😉😉)
Orange man, orange man — where do you go?To the podium downtown, where spotlights lay him low. Orange man, orange man — what do you do?I stack my name in steel and glass, sell certainty like glue. Orange man, orange man — why do we live?To fill the seats, to hold the roar — to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.5 (a more political narrative😉😉)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman’s No One Here Gets Out Alive is less a dispassionate life-history than a rite of remembrance: a fevered, piecemeal canonization of Jim Morrison that helped turn an already mythic rock singer into a modern Prometheus of American pop-culture. First published in 1980, the book occupies a peculiar position between popular … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.4
Orange man, orange man — where do you go?I go with my girl, to dinner and a show. Orange man, orange man — what work do you do?I am a cobbler by trade: I mend every shoe. Orange man, orange man — why do we live?To share what we have — love and laughter to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Orange Man”, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
The Penland Book of Ceramics reads like a field diary kept at the intersection of craft pedagogy and artistic confession. Edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott and assembled from the teaching tradition of the Penland School of Crafts, this handsome volume (Lark Books, 2003) aims not simply to catalogue techniques but to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
The New Renaissance Mindset 