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Oak trees the centerpiece: Excerpt from Atlas
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Oak trees the centerpiece: Excerpt from Atlas

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May 23, 2022
Painting of an oak forest
The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Breau, Theodore Rousseau, 1864

Glenn Bach is a composer and poet who lives in…

The following piece is an excerpt from Glenn Bach’s Atlas, a long poem about place and our (mis)understanding of the world. Atlas began in 2003 as a sound art project, but has since evolved into an open-ended long poem.

Oak trees the centerpiece each place was owned by the community the islands the acorn the seeds the fire the sea lanes chia & red maids Limuw to Yaangna (on the Glendale Narrows) in the supernatural world of the sky eagle hawk sun & coyote so that everything falls down into this world.
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Glenn Bach is a composer and poet who lives in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. His major project, Atlas, is a long poem about place and our (mis)understanding of the world. Excerpts have appeared in jubilat, Otoliths, and Plumwood Mountain. He documents his work at glennbach.com and @AtlasCorpus.

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