It’s exciting to think of this video as an entry point for poetry directed towards a whole new audience. In this first track on the album, the poet pulls you towards him, he thanks you for listening. With Bon Iver’s soundtrack-which can also be experienced with images on YouTube, in one more collaboration with Eric Timothy Carlson- it is another thing entirely. Gay has performed this poem a number of times live in the Orchard, at the I Fell Gallery, and on a Zoom call or two. His words, voiced by Gay himself are paired with the twinkling tones of the Grammy award-winning indie folk band Bon Iver. The album, Dilate your Heart begins with the title poem from Gay’s 2015 collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, in which he answers a robin’s call and sings the praises of sunchoke and lemon balm, horses and walnut trees, his beloved’s whisper in the beehive and Bloomington’s own Community Orchard. KAYTE YOUNG: Critically acclaimed local poet Ross Gay has teamed up with a cast of musicians for a spoken word release in celebration of label Jagjaguwar’s 25th anniversary. ROSS GAY: “.what do you think this singing and shuddering is.”
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