The Elusive Resurrection

Times of great trouble in this world. Times, also, of great inspiration. And of great hope.

Hear “The Elusive Resurrection”, from Newfoundland poet Al Pittman’s first collection (Brunswick Press, 1966*):

“Oh for the strength
the indomitable courage
to cast away
this shroud
and leap to life
to run and sing
to free these lips
that now do nothing
but argue
and would kiss
to reach
into the sun and stars
and grasp
what little of heaven
has been given us
to devour”

Another NL great, singer-songwriter Ron Hynes, turned a poem from Pittman’s final collection, “Thirty-for-Sixty”, (published by Breakwater Books in 1999*), into a song. Musician Allison Crowe, home in Corner Brook, NL, where Al Pittman grew up, delivers here the essence of those words:

* Both poems appears in Breakwater’s 2015 release “Al Pittman: Collected Poetry”.

30 for 60

Dealing from the deck of "Newfoundland Vinyl II" - Allison Crowe lays down "30 for 60" - suiting the existential gambit of Ron Hynes and the late Al Pittman.

          

Loafidelity

Even when Allison Crowe is loafing, it's a creative act. Allison's rising to the new season, with Autumn wishes - a pic, recipe and a poem - for us all @ Fall? Bread.

"Cuerpo de Mujer" + "What About You + Imagenes Exclusivas

From Rita Mercedes Chio in Argentina comes this new creation - uniting words of Chile's Pablo Neruda, "imáges muy especiales", and musica of Allison Crowe. The poem is "Cuerpo de Mujer" (Body of a Woman), published in Neruda's 1924 collection, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair". The music is "What About You" - the version from Allison's "Live at Wood Hall" set.