Very pleased to see this published finally in THE EXACTING CLAM MAGAZINE Issue 21

This text is called I do more deeply

Click on the link to read it. It was written in 1973-74 when I was invited to join the International Writers Program in the University of Iowa. So it was written more than 50 years ago! At the time I was engaged in systemic writing – composers Philip Glass and John White were friends of mine, and I wanted to see if I could do in literature what they were doing in music.

The text is a shortened version of a booklength piece called HOT DAMN – which is now a Heyzine book accompanied by my own drawings – contact me if you want the link to that complete text.

This shortened text was read by myself and two other very fine readers (a man and a woman) at my final presentation in Iowa. Each paragraph had a formula: one reader reading one sentence, the next reader reading two, say, and the third silent. Then there was a different formula for the next paragraph. There was a brilliant recording made of this – but that has disappeared. Dancers accompanied the reading.