Slow Gold by Nick Bisceglia

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"I'm loath to quit the task of helping Nick realize these settings, so a few words before our ship sails to soften the blow of its leaving: for months, a few miles upriver from Emily's town, I saw the poetry working on him. Oftentimes I would find him in his study without so much as a candle lit, a full moon casting its negative shadow over jumbles of papers and experiments, singing softly by the window. Had I not been there to guide him through the ruggedest part of the journey (bouts of melancholy, brain fever, fits, etc.), the project surely would have failed. We were fortunate enough to leave that outermost place with what seventeen minutes of material we found. What else can be said of Emily's poetry that hasn't yet? The quaintness belies its extremity - to be touched by it is to apprehend Eternity."

-Bugnu, October 2022

credits

» poetry by Emily Dickinson

» all music written and recorded by Nick Bisceglia

» produced by Bugnu

» mastered by elie

» published by The People's Coalition of Tandy

» daguerreotype provided by Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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