The Parliament of Poets - February 15 - March 02, 2024
Apollo's Troupe
PROGRAM
The Parliament of Poets, By Frederick Glaysher
Approximately 90 Minutes.
No photos or video during performance.
Please turn OFF all digital devices.
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Book I Poets East and West, on the moon
In the mid part of the moon, I stood...
Book II Black Elk, Chief Seattle
A great war cry went up...
Book III The Faerie Queene
And then something began to happen...
Book IV Vyasa
I cast a sideways glance at Tagore...
Book VI Mogao Cave, on the Silk Road
With the sun, we entered the cave...
Book VI Du Fu
So you are the traveler from the moon...
Book VII Job, On the Moon
Once I had drawn closer...
Book VIII Dante, Chartres Cathedral
And so I stood, enthralled by a granite metaphor...
Book VIII William Blake, in London
Milton shall take you...
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Book VIII Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana
Far down the wooded path...
Book IX Rumi
Suddenly Rumi stopped and rested...
Book IX Fathepur Sikri
Attar and I, I holding firmly to his wrist...
Book X Machu Picchu
Pacha Mama, Mother Earth, O help us now...
Book X Borges
We must look up, elevate our view...
Book XI In Africa, in the east of the DRC
I am Sogolon, King Sundiata's mother...
Book XII The Poet of the moon
Back on the moon for the fourth time...
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