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HAPPY EASTER & APRIL FOOLS DAY
2013



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Eostre/Easter Program


To see thematic images and to read the GS's essay on the origins of Easter, "The Many Easters & Eostres for the Many: A Choice of Hallelujahs," click here














The Gypsy Scholar is posting this essay by Beat/Eco-poet Gary Snyder, "Earth Day and the War Against the Imagination," simply because (a) it was the only piece of Snyder's he could find in the Tower of Song library that was delivered on Earth Day and because (b) more importantly the GS' own essay for Earth Day, "Romantic Naturalism & the Roots of the Environmental Movement," dealt with the theme of the role of the Imagination in the nineteenth-century writers and poets who rebelled against the philosophy behind the Industrial Revolution and sought to heal rift between man and nature.

The title of Gary Snyder's essay was inspired by a poem from a fellow Beat poet, Diane DiPrima: "The only war that matters is the war against the imagination." Although the GS didn't cite the totally appropriate lines from William Blake in this particular essay (though he did use this from Blake as an epigraph: "Nature is Imagination"), in past essays on the Romantic's hope for a radical social change through the American and French revolutions the GS has cited this from Blake: "Art Degraded, Imagination Denied, War Governed the Nations."  (But if, as the Romantics knew, Industrial society and its science was making war on nature, and if Blake equated nature with imagination, then the GS's epigraph from Blake nonetheless fits in with DiPrima's line.) Blake, the poet-prophet of the Imagination, believed that the real war carried out by the tyrannical state was, in one way or another, a war on the Imagination. He also knew (as did his Romantic counterparts in America--Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman) that the liberation of the Imagination on the eco-political level of democracy fulfilled the dream of the ideal society of the Romantics--what Blake called "Jerusalem" and what the GS, in his Earth Day essay, called "the Imagi-nation."  


"Earth Day and the War Against the Imagination"


To hear an excerpt from a talk given by Native American poet, singer-songwriter, and activist John Trudell on the subject of "Mother Earth," click links below.

Media
Media
Playlist
Earth Day 4/22/13

SONGS
Earth My Body    Kate West    Elements of Chant
This Place    Melanie O'Reilly    Celtic Woman
Song of the Trees     John Trudell     If A Tree Falls
All The World Is Green      Tom Waitts
And The Earth Spins     Paul Winter    Earth: Voices Of A Planet
Mother Earth's Revenge   Karen Casey
Trees       Fiona Joyce      Celtic Woman
Defend The Earth      Alice Di Micele      If A Tree Falls
The Only Green World     Rumors Of The Big Wave       If A Tree Falls
Heaven's Here On Earth     Tracy Chapman      New Beginning
Home    Dougie MacLean    Inside The Thunder
















Playlist
"Re-VisionRadio Manifesto & Visionary Recital"
April 15, 2013

SONGS
Rave On John Donne    Van Morrison    Live In Berkeley 1986
Shout Out    Sekou Sundiata    The Blue Oneness Of Dreams
Love Lion Blues    Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek    Love Lion
Shape Of My Heart    Sting    Ten Summoner's Tales
In My Secret Life    Leonard Cohen    Live In London
Open Season on My Heart    Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell    Old Yellow Moon
Till I Gain Control Again    Van Morrison    Live In Concert 2006
Walk Away from Love    Eliza Gilkyson    Hard Times in Babylon
I Can't Forget    Leonard Cohen    I'm Your Man
Heart of a Man    Eliza Gilkyson    Lost and Found
Saving The Good Stuff For You    Richard Thompson    Electric
Soul    Van Morrison    BBC Four Sessions, London 2008

BACKGROUND MUSIC
Various instrumental music

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