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Comment by Rael Birth on June 13, 2009 at 8:12pm

Kim Poor - Blood on the Rooftops

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Kim Poor - Can-Utility and the Coastliners

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Kim Poor - Firth of Fifth

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Kim Poor - Entangled

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Kim Poor - Genesis Lyrics

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Introduction to Kim Poor by Jo Durden-Smith
New York 1978

In Kim Poor's world it is always winter, that Gothic winter of the heart when "natural things exist only a little," as Baudelaire said, "and reality lies only in dreams." her men-women, sometimes surviving only as their reflections, are eyeless for the most part, as if their pupils are turned back into their heads, to examine other secret landscapes there, where other moons preside. In her world, everything is possible, both for the dreamer and the dreamed. The inward eye sees what it chooses.

Sometimes it sees vaguely, figures as shadowy as lost friends, seen through the gauze of memory as misconnections, lost possibilities. Sometimes it sees clearly, stark, frozen visions of dark woods and dead castles, pools that death watches. Always it sees with its own logic, the logic of myth and imagining. here are places where who you are is wood, water and rainbow: where your barrage-balloon parents are tangled in the paraphernalia of your own childhood: where the man in the moon is joker, kite and hanged man: and where Ophelia becomes Lilith, the spirit of vengeance, and Harlequin is robbed of his face. "His gaiety, like his candle, is dead," as Verlaine says, "and today his ghosts haunt us, slim and bright."