
- ink music: the lyrics of chris mosdell
- laa... the dangerous opera begins
- the oracles of distraction (box set)
(with the poet shuntaro tanikawa) - the erotic odes: a pillow book
- writing the riot act in the illiterate hour: (new and selected lyrics)
- splatterhead: the songlines of chris mosdell
- shake the whole world to its foundations (with calligraphist juichi yoshikawa)
- city of song: the incendiary arias
- thirty-three billion songs on the road of reincarnations
thirty-three billion songs
on the road of reincarnations
Entitled after the number of gods in the Hindu pantheon, and divided into one hundred and eight sections (the number of appellations of Krishna) this volume is the culmination of the lyricist’s six month sojourn in India, and written in homage to the great India poet Rabindranath Tagore. A great mosaic of cultural observations, that not only describes the physical and psychological microcosm of the Santiniketan locale (where Chris resided) but also the vast “torn galaxy” of the Indian subcontinent itself.
Published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India, 2008.
“Can be read as a rhythmical litany, as a neo-religious prayer, but ultimately as an explosive edition of sensual shrapnel.”