David Byrne is one of those people whose music (post-Talking Heads, at least) I wish I liked better. He's smart, articulate, skeptical in all the right ways and deeply humane. I respect him immensely. His albums are just hard for me to listen to.That said, Byrne is one of the truly great curators of popular music. His taste really is beyond reproach. There was a run in the mid-Nineties, just af...
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A canoe in Puerto MaldonadoIn the canoe a shoutA shot firedA muted shoreA warrior deadAnd a rowerA canoe in Puerto MaldonadoA long journey starts anewWith the riverA bell burstsUnder the waterI will sleep the restOf my amazementSo I can arrive earlyThere is still an open pathAnd a star- translated from El Bosque Armado (La Canoa)[The Armed Forest (The Canoe)]So opens Seis Poemas [Six Poems], th...
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