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Synopsis
Poetry/Music. Melody Sumner Carnahan's cryptic, emigmatic fiction has found form for thirteen years in collaboration with composers and musicians. When THE TIME IS NOW was first published by Burning Books, Carnahan gave her book to friends asking them to put the works to music. The result is this 74-minute spoken word and music CD, which also contains an 80-page reprint of THE TIME IS NOW, first published in 1985. Sumner Carnahan is the author of 13 STORIES.
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About the Author
Melody Sumner Carnahan's published books include The Form: 1970-1979, In the Presence of My Enemies, 13 Stories, and as coeditor, the anthology The Guests Go In To Supper. She received an MFA in writing from Mills College in 1982 where she began working with musicians and composers. Audio-compositions based on her stories have been performed and broadcast internationally, many of which are included in The Time Is Now compact disc. Carnahan received commissions from Experimental Intermedia Foundation and New American Radio, and her writing has appeared in periodicals such as the City Lights Review and the San Francisco Chronicle. She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and since 1989 has lived in New Mexico.
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The time is now. It is the year of the simple message. The style is imitation, the technique to cheat. The world has abandoned the lion eagle ox in favor of the 30 second spot. There are no presents for children, everything is obvious, envy has erased all sympathetic response. Fire burns on unencumbered by water, uninspired by air. This is a description of mediocrity. There is more headroom but one's feet are forced into slippers of steel. Pride holds the multitudes in a continual, habitual process of readornment. The sun sets and rises without saturation of the senses, rises and sets without redemption of the soul. Approaching the azimuth now the sun condenses its message to opposites, there will be good fortune, there will be evil.
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