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Selections from When the Catfish Are In Bloom: Requiem for John Fahey by Ed Frankel

November 24, 2008 – 10:24 am
Posted in Authors, Ed Frankel, Issue 2 - Number 2 - Fall 2008, Poetry
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Born in 1939 in Maryland, John Fahey pioneered the use of traditional country and blues finger picking to showcase the acoustic steel string guitar as a solo instrument that could play a mix of traditional and non-traditional musical genres. He collaged ideas associated with Bartok, Charles Ives, Indian and Gamelan Read More »

Farbende by Ed Frankel

November 23, 2008 – 9:43 pm
Posted in Ed Frankel, Issue 2 - Number 2 - Fall 2008, Poetry
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The iron treadles rock and doven
in the flatiron shadows, pressed air and piece work.
Hungry hands move like birds.
Every week the girl who makes the least gets fired. Read More »

Chalk It Up To Love by Ed Frankel

November 23, 2008 – 9:32 pm
Posted in Authors, Ed Frankel, Issue 2 - Number 2 - Fall 2008, Poetry
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And then, hooked up to tubes and oxygen,
She was screaming, catch me Joey, I’m falling!
I picked her up, the heft and weight
Of rabbit bones wrapped in silk,
I’ve got you Rose I’ve got you. Read More »