City of Legends

If you are a regular listener to my internet radio station Radio City of Legends at Live365.com, you will find I finally got off my ass and updated the playlists a bit today, adding tracks from Evangelist AND restoring some tracks I had previously backed out (and retiring a few of the elder podcasts).

Enjoi!

In addition to the fine 24/7 service provided by Live365 Internet Radio, I have begun the process of restoring Radio City of Legends to its former glory.

To listen to hours of poetry, discussion and interviews by and with myself, and such luminaries as Larry Jaffe, Dan Mctaggart and Nordette Adams, you can click on the Audio permalink, at the top of the page, or go to http://cityoflegends.com/radio-city-of-legends/.

Your choice. Enjoi.

I slipped over into the page the poet calls "Radio City of Legends" and listened, as dispassionately as I could, to the contents.

Here’s my breakdown:

The Show:
So far, he has two sessions: Dec 3 with Dave Taub and Dec 10 with Larry Jaffe. The former is a bit longer, and has some nice touches, including the poet deconstructing his poem "from out of the city" from whence these programs (available not only at City of Legends Radio, but also at the iTunes musci store under Podcasts) got their name. It, unfortunately, lacks interactivity, and I would’ve liked a clearer recording of Dave Taub. The latter show, with Larry Jaffe, is a bit shorter, with some interaction between the poets, and features some great works by Jaffe, as well as a single, short reading from DeVault.

The Books:
He talks about the evolution of five of his eight books, notably absent are "PanthEon", "from out of the city" and "101 Great Love Poems". For the others he gives us insight and some nice readings of selected works from each. My favorite? "Love Gods of a Forgotten Religion" just to hear him read "Reborn" without tripping over his tongue. That poem is laced with so many verbal runs and alliterative monsters I am amazed it can be spoken aloud without one’s head exploding.

The Muses:
So far he has only profiled three: Psyche, The Goldenheart and Alisha. Despite the gravitas of the myth that is the Goldenheart, I preferred his session about Alisha. It is obvious he still has a bad case of her.

I’ll check back in later and talk about his singles, including "Glass Roses" and "Diogenes" and also the contributions made so far by Dan McTaggart and Nordette Adams.

It will change in the next day or two, as I add more, but I wanted to lay out what we’ve managed to assemble so far on the Radio City of Legends podcasting center at City of Legends…

Books: Each of these is a 10-20 minute talk about one of my books, including a few readings from the volume:
From an Unexpected Quarter (14:34)
INVOCATO (13:32)
Love Gods of a Forgotten Religion (10:26)
The Morgantown Suite Poems (10:24)
The Compleat Panther Cycles (19:40)

Muses: I talk about some of the extraordinary women who have insired my works, including some readings in each segment:
Alisha (The Will O Wisp, The Truth) (12:18)
The Goldenheart (10:40)
Psyche (The Electric Lady, Nemicorn) (12:32)

From Out of the City (5:04) is the featured audio of the month

Nordette Adams’ works: The Jersey Goddess brings it!:
Crescent City Blues in K (3:30)
One Dumb Bird (2:16)

Singles and Mood Sets: Individual readings or clusters of a few thematically related works:
TRIUMPH (5:02)
Mood Erotique: (3 poems; Aside, Astride the Phoenix; gibbous; Intimacies) (3:24)
Chrysalis: (1:54)
Horizon: (1:21)
In the Garden: (1:29)
First Date Blues: (1:12)
The Unicorns: (1:06)
Mood Romantique: (5 poems; Soubrette, The Patchwork Skirt of My Love, Damascus (Movement III), Damascus (Movement VII), Cithara Song…strummed lightly as the sun leaps the horizon) (6:40)
The Philosophy of Dreams: (2:24)
ritornelle for silence: (0:38)
Panther on the Beach: (1:54)
We Owe Debt to Memory: (1:08)
Illusion of Grey: (1:43)
Mood Poetique: (7:10)
The Jester of Hearts: (1:50)
The Darker Angels: (1:50)
Theocricide at Mach 10e6: (2:07)
Goblins in My Attic: (0:22)

Pretty good list so far…but more to come, including works from Dave Taub, Daniel McTaggart and my complete reading of "Diogenes"….this week!