Showing posts with label #philipglass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #philipglass. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 April 2018

Philip Glass (January 31, 1937)

Philip Glass - cut from the cover of
his album music in twelve parts 
Your name lacks an extra l, an extra p,
and, at the end, probably multiple e’s, like this:
Phillippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Glass I would leave unchanged.
For who better than you understands optics,
in the sense of how to look at things?

Who better breaks boundaries,
like the one of music becoming poetry,
memory, moments we never ever lived?

Glass breaks.

Compositor, they say?
Translator! Sound-mapper!
Dream-inducer! Soul-scavenger!

Minimalist? You, who maximize
the sensitivity of our ear-drums?
Maximalist! Fulfillist!

Extra Perception, extra Levity.
One exact month after each New Year's eve,
we should celebrate a New Ear's eve.

Multiplelist.
Hence the extra l, the extra p,
those many e’s, these ecstatic a’s.



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