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Identity Papers
Identity papers, a poem for two voices
Hsiao-Ming (Early Morning Light) and Hong (Phoenix),
features poet, Jeffrey
Ethan Lee. Performing here with Lori-Nan Engler and international recording artist
and percussionist, Toshi Makihara, identity papers is the first recording of
Lee's poetry.
This spoken
symphony is based on Lee's experience being assaulted with a hammer after riding the
subway in NYC followed by his emotional journey through recovery. As novelist,
Thaddeus Rutkowski said, "Its thrust is soft, quick, and
razor-sharp."
In these days
where we are continuously bombarded by images of terror and suffering, identity papers
reminds us that fear, pain, ethnic hatred, hope, and recovery are still intensely personal
emotions, felt by one person, one day at a time.
"...what
began as an infernal poem had become for me a journey that led back out to a different
kind of vision completely, a vision in which one could recognize and understand the
violence of our culture yet still find a way to be whole and human again. So in the
end of the poem, even in New York City or Philadelphia, where everything can (and will) go
horribly wrong, love is possible again."-- from notes on identity papers by Jeffrey
Lee
15 tracks in 57:06 minutes.
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