The education of henry adams book5/31/2023 I attended one of his performances and didn’t feel the same for days. “Cleave to me pitch of zero/ White maggot pulsing in the emerald grass/ Cleave to me great grime of camphor/ Skirmishing our lungs.” Before the pandemic swept in, Stucky did a series of performances of “Ascend Ascend,” in which he entered an other-state and pulled audiences with him, ritualistically dissolving himself, letting something else - what was it, I don’t know - enter him, descending into a chthonic elsewhere, ascending into an infinity, smoke rising around him, encircled by marigolds, face smeared a bone-white, a skull-white, the whole room charged with something ancient and occult. The result, “Ascend Ascend” (Third Man Books), holds a surging, bright-dark magic it’s a yowling praising ecstatic dirge-hymn, altering and incantatory. In 2018, Janaka Stucky, poet, performer, publisher, wrote a book-length poem in 20 days in a 100-year-old church as he moved in and out of trance states. Incantatory performance of book-length poem released on LP
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