Rafael Barreto-Rivera

• Scrabble Babble 1 (6:20): MP3
• Scrabble Babble 2 (5:01): MP3
• Air Blind (8:23): MP3
• Here it has Rained (fragment)(15:15): MP3
• Scrabble Babble 3 (4:54): MP3

Untitled Poem

• If you're making a sound that already has meaning,
• you take away as much meaning as you can.
• If you're making a sound that has very little meaning,
• you give it as much meaning as you can.
  • Think of a horse guiding a camel.
  • Think of a camel astride which
  • the human voice is riding.
  • The voice is yours.
  • The camel belongs to someone else...

    En Esperanto Espero

    (for Barrie)

    • If a, then a.
    • If a then a, then a again.
    • If a then a then a again, then a again
    • and a again, and a again
    • without encountering b
    • in this short journey.
      • B does arise in time,
      • out of a wish or need for b, denying
      • other elements.
        • For a time, that is, until
        • the literature of c asserts itself
        • in this small library, reminding one of a
        • before a was engendered.
        • If a, then a:
        • no more than a, no less than a
        • not equal to
        • nor larger than
        • than a.
          • If a, then a , and a.
          • B does not change this,
          • except that it comes later,
          • like a burst of rain.
            • Source: Voices, Noises. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1982.

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              Four Horsemen: tracks from Canadada & Live in the West
              
              

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