Anziano | Anziano Starship Anziano Starship is an ongoing experimental collaboration between myself & Robert Clark; we’ve been performing together in this manner since 1994. Poetry “The Deep E,”  “Angelology,” & "Ebulliences" were recorded on August 13, 2006 in my living room in Berwyn. Later that evening, we did versions of these texts at the Myopic Reading Series, where Chris Glomski also read. Click on the titles to play the recordings. The texts are poems of mine; Robert is playing the guitar. He’s also responsible for the mixology. “The Deep E” comes from part I of An Icon of the Mouth. A text version of it can be found here, in LVNG 8, “The Great Lakes Issue.” “Angelology” comes from part II of An Icon of the Mouth. It initially appeared in traverse, edited by Drew Kunz & Stacy Szysmazek & was reprinted in A Mystical Theology of the Limbic Fissure, published by Dos Madres. “Ebulliences” comes from part III of An Icon of the Mouth. It initially appeared in Colorado Review. Rock In the mid-to-late 1990s, the Anziano Starship worked on a project called “Recovery,” which involved (sometimes repeated) renditions of canonical rock tunes. Here are some selected choice cuts from this project: “Baba O’Riley” “More than a Feeling, intro” “More than a Feeling” “The Spirit of Radio” “New Day Rising, 1” “New Day Rising, 2” “New Day Rising, 3” Typically, these songs were recorded using a somewhat sophisticated tape recorder with a decent mic, then mixed down onto a four-track. In two cases – “The Spirit of Radio” & “New Day Rising, 2” – the vocals were recorded through the pick-ups of a Tonemaster guitar. Anziano was the name of a band I played in at Reed College in 1988-9; its other members were Corky DeVault, Mike Clark, & Joel Kuszai. Here is a video recording of our performance at Renn Fayre, 1989. Home | Poetry online