Thank you for being a delightful Poetry Nap Member.
Join us, Lady and Lord Dosis, on our mystical hot air balloon bed, the Dandy Duchess, as we set sail to an enchanted, forested island. Together we’ll meander through the woods with the wind in our hair and whimsy on the breeze.
Discover the eloquence of a million swirling dandelion seeds and the daring verse of the birds and the bees. Indulge in magical lovers awandering and awondering. Expect the unexpected with magnificent new friends around every corner.
All of this while you rest, relax, let go, and—nap, if you’d like. Sweet dreams.
DEDICATION
This season is dedicated in loving memory to the extraordinary
Michael McClure
(October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020).
CAST
Lady Dosis
Jodie Kleeman
Lord Dosis
Robert Wyald
Writers
Jodie Kleeman
Robert Wyald
Producer, Director
Sound Design & Engineer
Robert Wyald
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POEMS REMIXED & REVERED
(THANK YOU, ARTISTS)
Poems and parts of poems and their translations are woven into and transformed inside our voyage heeding the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use of Poetry.
It is our sincere hope that hearing these poems transformed will serve as inspiration to delve into the authors’ original and complete works.
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
e e cummings
“Don’t Forget Love”
Mirabai
“Off the Trail”
Gary Snyder
“Lost”
David Wagoner
“Let’s Voyage into the New American House”
Richard Brautigan
“Ode to a Woman Gardening”
Pablo Neruda tr. by Margaret Sayers Peden
“sweet spring is your…”
e e cummings
“How Badly we Need Love to Invent it”
Michael McClure
“Ode to Wine”
Pablo Neruda tr. by Margaret Sayers Peden
“i like my body”
e e cummings
“Native Moments”
Uncle Walt Whitman
“When I was the Forest”
Meister Eckhart tr. by Daniel Ladinsky
MUSIC MIXED & REVERED
(THANK YOU, ARTISTS)
“Let the Rest of the World Go By”
composed by Ernest R. Ball and J. Keirn Brennan
performed by Tom Bopp
“Danse sacrée et danse profane”
composed by Claude Debussy
performed by the United States Marine Band
MSgt. Karen Grimsey, harp
Major Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Creative Commons 3.0
“Sabidareli chabuki”
composed by Revaz Lagidze
performed by Irma Gogiashvilli
“Dandelion Seeds”
performed and composed by Suellen Primost
“What Sweet Delight”
performed and composed by
Suellen Primost and John Kadyk
“1940s Slow Dance”
Doug Maxwell
“Clair De Lune”
composed by Claude Debussy
performed by Mauro Ffortissimo
“Slow Brassy New Orleans Jazz Band”
“Santa Lucia”
performed by Enrico Caruso
Creative Commons 3.0
“Goldberg Variations BWV 988, Aria”
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
performed by Kimiko Ishizaka
“Whitman Approaches”
performed and composed by Joshua-Michéle Ross
“Etude Op. 10, no. 3 in E major · ‘Tristesse’”
composed by Frédéric Chopin
performed by Edward Neeman
“Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 – II. Larghetto”
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
performed by the United States Marine Chamber Orchestra