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Triptych (2003) 1. Dreams (I’ll Never See) 2. Alabama Song 3. My Damascus 4. Lady Grinning Soul 5. Brother-in-Arms 6. Letter to Hermoine 7. Muddled-up Blues 8. Sympathy for the Devil 9. Radio Revealed 10. Sins of the Fathers 11. Gethsemane Part One - listen Part Two - listen Part Three - listen Need an mp3 player? - go here |
12. Not to Touch the Earth 13. Run On 14. An American Trilogy 15. Lonesome Old Town 16. Stand by Me 17. Song for Marie 18. My Death 19. Amazing Grace 20. Wild is the Wind 21. Cubbie Codacil |
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| One represents immobility and solipsism, God’s very reason for commencing the universe. Two is the province of romance and hermaphroditic unity. Three is the break-out of plot and happenstance, the glorious price for leaving the garden and initiating history. All things reveal themselves in the fullness of time --a co-requisite of plot-- and they do so in series of three's. The Furies apportion our fates thusly. Judas sealed his fate with three betrayals. The Brothers Grimm employed the triadic structure in practically all their tales. Even the Christian God elaborates His indivisible powers in the seeming paradox of the Trinity. Fate is plot, the picaresque of fortunes, good and ill. As Aristotle instructs, plot is character. | Quite literally then, we are our journey with Cerberus to greet us at the end. Similarly, we all endure three sequential abandonments from whence all others derive their resonance: Mother, Lover and God. But in the oddest of paradoxes, we “gather” ourselves on the other side of desolation and loss. As the startling and ubiquitous hymn Amazing Grace informs, "twas lost but now am found." Aristotle teaches that catharsis is the worthy aftermath of tragedy. Another triumvirate? Why, Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides! Odd indeed. Sift the wreckage of your triptych. In order to flourish, we must first reconvene. --NB |
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 Griffin Irving is a California-based poet as well as a gifted bluegrass and folk singer/songwriter. Her forthcoming book, to be published by New World Press, is entitled “Stone Veiled Angels.” Recent publications include Words on a Wire, Bristol Banner Books, Anthologies in India and The Walrus. |
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