new pocket-sized Bill Shute poetry chapbook, STANZAS FOR KRISHNAMURTI (KSE #424), now available…only $3.95!

STANZAS FOR KRISHNAMURTI (KSE #424)

a newly-written 16-page open-field poem in a convenient 4″ x 6″ pocket format

KSE #424, perfect-bound paperback, only $3.95 from your local A-zon outlet, in whatever country

As a teenager in the Colorado of the 1970’s, I often had one of the City Lights “pocket poets” books in my shirt or pants pocket, to read in a city park, at a bus stop, etc. Now, here is an opportunity for YOU, for only $3.95, to have a pocket-sized volume of new poetry of mine to carry around, providing (I hope) entertainment and enlightenment while out and about. I’ve been doing longer pieces since 2017, the year (I think) I issued my last “chapbook” in the classic KSE format, but those old KSE ‘chapbooks’ WERE NOT something that would fit easily in the pocket or purse, being 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches–this new 4×6 form IS.

STANZAS FOR KRISHNAMURTI is a sample work from a series of STANZAS FOR poems, each 16 pages, which will eventually be collected in book form. A second work from this series, STANZAS FOR FLETCHER HENDERSON, will be issued a month after this one, on June 1st.

If you’re already buying something at A-zon that you paid postage on (or you bought enough to get free postage), why not slip this book into your order for only $3.95. I can assure you that it’s unlike anything else you’ll read this year.

Finally, do remember that the title uses the word FOR, not ABOUT. The poems in this series are inspired by the work of the people mentioned (J. Krishnamurti, Fletcher Henderson, Kate Chopin, etc.), though they are not meant to be any kind of paraphrase of or commentary upon that work. However, I took pains for the poems to be CONSISTENT WITH what the persons represented, and those who know the bodies of work of those persons will certainly find specifics/details from that work integrated into the mosaic of the poems. However, someone who’s never heard of the person the work is dedicated to will have no problem reading and understanding my poem–prior knowledge is not needed, although I’d hope that after reading my poem, you’d WANT to further explore the subject of Krishnamurti, Fletcher Henderson, Kate Chopin, etc.

You can order STANZAS FOR KRISHNAMURTI, and support your local working poet, here for only $3.95:

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This chapbook is actually my most recent poetry work, being composed in April 2024, and uses the recent lunar eclipse as one of its motifs! This short, accessible work is an excellent entryway into my longer works while still possessing the most essential qualities found in those longer works. Readers of poets such as Paul Blackburn or Ted Berrigan should enjoy STANZAS FOR KRISHNAMURTI (I would hope).

Keep an eye out for STANZAS FOR FLETCHER HENDERSON, the next chapbook in this series, which will be published June 1st.

Marcus Rubio / Bill Shute poetry-and-electronic composition album praised at Volcanic Tongue

Our recent poetry and electronic composition album ‘Only The Imprint of an Echo Remains‘ gets a rave review from Scotland’s legendary Volcanic Tongue! We’ve written about the album elsewhere on the blog (just scroll down or click this: https://kendrasteinereditions.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/marcus-rubio-bill-shute-only-the-imprint-of-an-echo-remains-kse-247-electronic-music-and-poetry-album-now-available/  ), but as usual, David Keenan shows a great insight into the work–many thanks! Also, speaking for myself (the poetry half of this duo), I’m honored to have Jess Franco’s name dropped in a review of mine. Marcus and I may be doing a joint performance of material rooted in this album sometime in the next month or so in San Antonio. Check the blog for details. If it doesn’t happen now, we’ll try for some other time…Summer 2013 perhaps. Until then, grab a copy of ONLY THE IMPRINT OF AN ECHO REMAINS and experience the possibilities when poetry and contemporary electronic composition get together.

MARCUS RUBIO / BILL SHUTE

“Only The Imprint of An Echo Remains” (KSE #247, cdr album)

$8 ppd. in the US/$10 ppd. elsewhere

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Marcus Rubio & Bill Shute 
Only The Imprint Of An Echo Remains 
Kendra Steiner Editions KSE-247 
CD-R 
£7.99

Inspired collaboration between American soundist Marcus Rubio and poet/writer/curator Bill Shute: Only The Imprint… alternates between recordings of Shute reading his poetry – “Oneness And The Sun”, “Objectless” and “The Twenty Fifth Life Of Alcyone” – with radical treatments of sections/snippets/echoes from the reading by Rubio, using techniques like granular synthesis and spectral reduction. The results are startling. Shute has a great, resonant, expressive, reading voice and Rubio inverts this with his treatments, generating cold zones of austere Euro electronics and almost NWW-esque shots of dead air. Indeed, some of the pieces remind me of Nate Young’s Regression experiments, with Shute’s voice variously disembowelled, smeared and otherwise dissembled, to the point that it becomes another texture or rhythm in the piece. Rubio would seem to have much in common with John Oswald’s various time-stretching plunderphonic strategies, and the music has that feeling of entire worlds squeezed into seconds, unfolding in rippling rhythms and generating eerie moments of sing-song beauty that feel closer to actual song constructs than ‘mere’ sonic manipulation, with a grandeur and ambition that goes way beyond what you might think the remit entails. And when it switches to Bill’s reading the effect is startling, like a sudden zoom, a crude Jess Franco close-up that feels like a complete inversion of what went before. A great side, highly recommended!

Posted at Volcanic Tongue (written by David Keenan), 2 December 2012

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