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cosmic dream radioEpisode 17: Hotel Edenwww.luminouswork.org/podcast.what on earth was I thinking?“Rowing in Eden” from the anthology A Convergence of Birds, feels like a Cornell box. It plays childishly on a strange ledge over a vista of time, longing, and lyricism.There are two french words in the text which I pronounce very badly: lilas and pensée: lilacs and pansies. Memory and thought are the rooms on the either side of ours on the eighth floor. Outside our window we’ll watch ballet on the tip of an obelisk. Cornell loved ballet, particularly Swan La...
2019-02-0706 min
cosmic dream radioEpisode 16: Rilke's Duino Elegies #9www.luminouswork.org/podcast.If you are alone at cliff’s edge, beaten by a harsh salt wind, the ruins of the 11th century behind you, a steep rocky drop to the sea before you—I can think of no better company than Rilke, who, in just such a position, heard:“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the hierarchies of angels? ”That’s the first line of his first elegy written at Duino Castle in Italy in 1910.All ten elegies were published in 1923.Today I will read for y...
2018-12-1214 min
laylage24 These Fountains Rare HereSample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
A medley of themes.
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2201 min
laylage16 Ladyies IndulgeSample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
Outside the moon's lake house, ladyies indulge in a feast.
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2202 min
laylage10 The ExplorerSample track from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
I meet an explorer in the steam room. He tells me about springs deep enough for me to bathe in.
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2204 min
laylage4 RoutineSample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
Inside the sanatorium, there's a dreadful routine.
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2201 min
laylage2 NovemberSample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
How love without beautiful? How be loved?
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2203 min
laylageSpring Hunt - Ladyies IndulgeAfter deer nymphs lure me to the shore of moon's lake, I go in quest of springs deep enough for me to bathe in. Includes tracks Spring Hunt, Run Run, Ladyies Indulge.
All sound and voice: Laylage Courie
Victorian Travel Guide: Phil Courie
More at www.luminouswork.org or www.luminouswork.org/epk for Press Kit.
Music video for ladyies indulge on youtube at https://youtu.be/mQOpsSxVn0c
2018-09-2207 min
laylage1 Black (outside A Sanitorium)Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
A monologue outside the sanatorium sets the stage. With the voice from an antique travel book.
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2203 min
laylage14 Spring HuntSample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
Hunting for springs deep enough to bathe in.
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2203 min
laylage13 EXCERPT Brightly Sweet SummerExcerpt from _these fountains rare here_ a genre-bending concept album about a woman's quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
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2018-09-2102 min
laylage14 Spring HuntSample track from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org
2018-09-2103 min
laylage20 HekateSample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
I went down to the proverbial crossroads to meet the devil. She turned out to be a triple-faced goddess with a cloak of dogs. "Follow the dogs," she says, "For they know other roads not mapped by sight..."
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Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2105 min
laylage21 Come On LonelySample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
Lost at night under the rising sign of orion.
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2103 min
laylage27 Black BirdsSample tracks from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.
The last track. Love? Death? I got away...this time.
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic. This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.
2018-09-2104 min
cosmic dream radioEpisode 15: "Sea Songs"www.luminouswork.org/podcast.I like this poem. Usually, I dislike or am bored with the products of my creativity soon after completing them. Very few things become stand-alone worlds even I enter breathlessly because they speak beyond what I can intend. This poem is like that for me. It was a love poem. "I do not want to move you like the sun: but like the moon" I wrote, imagining the lover a planet I would alter but not drive. I imagine walking around a whole continent. I want to be old calling...
2018-08-1308 min
cosmic dream radioEpisode 14: "Transcendental Etude"Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/podcast.What a weekend. Piles of logs from two fallen trees piled up behind the house, a broken well line, a boiler on the fritz, grass knee high, and bugs everywhere. The bugs are bad because of the rain. There's been a lot of rain. The basement floor is wet.Why do I have such trouble with Adrienne Rich? In college they told me she was the great contemporary poet (this was in the 90's) and I wanted to care because I aspired to be a poet and...
2018-05-2909 min
cosmic dream radioevery season something to fearA new poem by me literally recorded beneath the boughs of a giant oak that fell right over my study. Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/podcast.
2018-03-2009 min
laylageevery season something to fearI worry about climate change and see teatime as an implement to planetary destruction. This poem broadcast as Episode 13 of the Cosmic Dream Radio podcast. Learn more about the poem at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2018/worryworryworry or go to www.luminouswork.org/podcast.
2018-03-1903 min
cosmic dream radioSeven Yells for Russia--Alain BosquetAlain Bosquet's 7 part poem translated from the French by Jean Malaquais. Bosquet was born in Odessa. In this poem he returns to his homeland to find his poetic voice. I'm trying to do that, too. Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/podcast.
2018-02-0609 min
cosmic dream radioChristmas in July
beasts breathing carbon and lightA new poem read normally. Because it's cataclysmic all on its own.
--cosmic dream radio , Episode 11Trees that depend on cold to seed and fruit are "migrating" to more northern climes: with our help and on their own. If that isn't mythology, what is? Let's go there: into a lyric, liturgical mythology of polar bears, forests, and blistering-hot Christmas Eves.The intro discusses a few of the true stories from this poem's genesis. --what on earth was I thin...
2017-07-3109 min
laylageOrpheus & Eurydice by Greogry OrrFor Valentine's Day, Excepts of Gregory Orr's lyric sequence, _Orpheus & Eurydice_ published by Copper Canyon Press in 2001.
How can I celebrate love now that I know what it does?
Learn more about this poem and hear the podcast intro at: www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2017/orr-orpheus
2017-02-1415 min
cosmic dream radioValentine's Day, 2017
How can I celebrate love now that I know what it does?for Valentine's Day, a bit of Orpheus & Eurydice by American poet Gregory Orr.
--cosmic dream radio , Episode 10Gregory Orr's lyric sequence follows Orpheus from his passionate attachment to Eurydice, through her death, his descent into the underworld and fatal failure to rescue her, and ends with his head floating off after he is dismembered by a band of drunken wild women. Some lyrics are spoken by Orpheus, but many are addressed to us by others: a third-person narrator, Eurydice, P...
2017-02-1318 min
laylagethree swordsHeart/hart, night/knight, pen/pin, a forest, swords, and clouds. A tarot card inspires this track. Learn more about it at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2016/8/9/three-swords
2016-08-0904 min
cosmic dream radiothree swords
three of swords from the Golden Rider-Waite tarot deck
I know their names.
cosmic dream radio, Episode 9The three of swords is a song that I believe will be cut (slashed? sliced?) from my impending (as in doom) record, these fountains rare here.But I really like it. Here it is. Replete with hart hearts, night-riding knights, pens that pin, and clouds.what on earth was I thinking?This card fell out of the deck during a reading. I thought it was beautiful and it made me cry...
2016-08-0908 min
cosmic dream radiodemi-gods in brooklyn
men here are all pigs.
cosmic dream radio, Episode 8"When love is in excess, it brings a woman no honor, nor any worthiness." Three demi-gods, now based in Brooklyn, share their personal experiences with men and failed relationship.what on earth was I thinking?I've loved Greek mythology since I was a tween. It included a winged horse and a goddess, Athena, who was valued not for beauty but for wisdom. She made things. I also really liked the architecture. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian...it was important to me to choose a favor...
2016-03-1412 min
laylageT.S. Eliot's Ash WednesdayA straight-up reading of T. S. Eliot's poem 'Ash Wednesday'. All six parts.
more info at:
www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2016/2/17/doing-penance
2016-02-1713 min
cosmic dream radioT.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"
doing penance...
cosmic dream radio, Episode 7It's been a long time since I've released a cosmic dream radio episode. I explain why and do penance with a straight-up reading of T.S. Eliot's poem "Ash Wednesday."links:The Wikipedia page has information about the poem and a link to read it online.what on earth was I thinking?And I who am here dissembled proffer my deeds to oblivionand my love to the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the g...
2016-02-1716 min
cosmic dream radioStrand's the end
the weight of the past leans
cosmic dream radio, Episode 6Not everyone knows what he shall sing at the end. I turn Mark Strand's poem, "The End" into a house/trance tune. But I read it to you first. And play my neat-o intro again.Links:The Continuous Life by Mark StrandStrand's New and Selected Poems (includes this poem)My reading of Strand's "The End"(download for free)Dance to "The End": Club/house/trance version (download for free)what on earth was...
2015-10-1208 min
cosmic dream radiotrade
before everything powers down...
cosmic dream radio, Episode 5I'd trade this song for you. Unless....it's going to be remembered.what on earth was i thinking?I was thinking about all the things I have made and how they live in warehouses of refrigerated machines somewhere in the middle of nowhere. dependent on power. the electrical kind. who knows how long we'll have power to burn so idly?this podcast is powered by machines. as many years future as sappho (as example) is past, what will remain of all...
2015-09-0203 min
cosmic dream radiobicycle coat
keep your coat.
cosmic dream radio, Episode 4A poem sandwiched between two slices of pop-esque.How'd it get so dark? what on earth was i thinking?Yeats' "He wishes for the cloths of heaven"I had a bike. It was red with a checked seat like a picnic basket. It looked popular and adventurous and ready-to-ride on outings to meet friends. I learned to ride my red bike. But there was nowhere to go. Round and round the circle where we lived. Where was my special friend?
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2015-07-0606 min
cosmic dream radioaudio intro
cosmic dream radio, Episode 3.5
In which I share an "Audio Intro" all professional like and then ruin it by sounding like a young college radio host. I like every episode to be it's own individual thing without all that credit bullshit no one wants to listen to over and over again. I want you to download these radio poems and pop songs. Have them mingle in playlists with whatever cool stuff you like.So this awkward intro is just to say: if you want to know what on earth I'm thinking, you...
2015-07-0601 min
cosmic dream radiohellhound by my side
dog seeks mistress.
cosmic dream radio, Episode 3A radio poem with three-head harmony!This hellhound is tired of being beaten, sedated, and dragged around. He wants someone to play with him. Are you the kind of girl he's looking for?related to this broadcastMy collage 'The kind of girl" is in Grrr: Issue 7 of the the on-line arts & culture e-zine Make8elieve.what on earth was i thinking?Cerberus, or Kerberus, is the three headed hound who guards the gates of Hades. Whenever Greek her...
2015-04-1507 min
cosmic dream radioblack black bulldog
when love and failure are basically the same thing
cosmic dream radio, Episode 2A radio poem about true love. Where'd you lose that blasted key?what on earth was I thinking?"True love has not, as far as I know, been compared by the poets to a bulldog. Yet it has the same sort of grip." --Rebecca West.Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair.
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sing, woman, sing. deer crash through windows. hell hounds want to play...
2015-04-0904 min
cosmic dream radiomessage to m13
it's getting hot here...A message for the aliens from small-town planet earth. With lame songs and barbecue sauce.
cosmic dream radio, Episode 1M13 is a star cluster. In the 1970's we (on earth) broadcast a message to it. Time for an update all you aliens out there! We're still here...burnt out and burning up. Part 1: HI. entangled with two unintended broadcasts (burn burn central & we're not responsible)Part 2: burn burn central (the truth is, it's getting hot here.)Part 3: IS THERE AN INTENT?Part...
2015-04-0712 min