Benjamin Boone - Caught in the Rhythm (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably / for lack / of what is found there." ~ William Carlos Williams

By now, this fragment from one of Doctor Williams’s pastorals has become as well-known and widely circulated as “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Poets have always been the star reporters of inner space and, as with the best reporters, they tell us things we didn’t know before; or, closer to the point, things we at best vaguely suspected were there, but couldn’t pin down without a poet’s unholy combination of audacity and precision. There remain important things in our lives that stay “news” longer than whatever cable television, newsprint, or digital feeds tell us and poets can’t help but dig deeper for the truths beyond the reach of mere fact, especially the bastardized “facts” of what we’ve come to know as “fake news,” which has given human imagination a bum rap insofar as its usefulness for understanding the who, what, when, where, and how of our souls’ disparate passages. The poet is here to deliver news-that-stays-news and, if she knows what she’s doing, clears a path to that Truth-and-Beauty signpost John Keats identified centuries ago.

TRACKLIST

1. Benjamin Boone - Mississippi 1955 Confessional
2. Benjamin Boone - HoodWitches (Redux)
3. Benjamin Boone - Caught in the Rhythm
4. Benjamin Boone - Art Pepper
5. Benjamin Boone - We Bring the Soul to It
6. Benjamin Boone - Poem 836 / The Diviner
7. Benjamin Boone - The Case Against Poetry
8. Benjamin Boone - Anger Management
9. Benjamin Boone - ASMR Sleepcast: The Night After Being Released from the Rural County Jail
10. Benjamin Boone - Olivia Suggests All the Women in Class Imagine Male Sexuality
11. Benjamin Boone - Mercy
12. Benjamin Boone - Dawg, What the Fuck Ima Do With a $20?
13. Benjamin Boone - You'll Be Sorry



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