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Yictove:
My Life Story
performed
with PinkBrown Band
CD
Contents
| 1 |
My Life Story |
| 2 |
At 17 |
| 3 |
Chippendale's |
| 4 |
Fat |
| 5 |
Lady DJ |
| 6 |
Chuck B |
| 7 |
Reggae Dog |
| 8 |
Radio Star |
| 9 |
Crescent City |
| 10 |
Day to Day |
| 11 |
Lemon |
| 12 |
My Next Girlfriend |
| 13 |
Dark Highway |
| 14 |
Bluesy Blues |
All poems written by Yictove
Performed with
PINK BROWN: Wayne Lee (DB) Schrengohst Guitars / Gregory
Latty Drums / Michael P. Nordberg / Bass
Cypress /
Additional vocals on tracks (3) & (5) / Reggie Taylor / Bass on
track (5) / Steve Doyle / Bass on track (10)
J.D. Paran /
Saxophone (10) / Louis Boone / Keys on track (4)
Produced and
engineered by Wayne Schrengohst / Recorded at Dutch Boy's
Oven NYC / Photos by Gary Berger
Contact:
Yictove: (973) 674-4285 /
poetyictove@aol.com
Wayne Schrengohst:
(212) 406-7388 /
waynard07@aol.com
Love shout to
Chiemyah
Also check out:
www.poetz.com
To see a dream
manifested into a tangible reality is bliss.
This work is a dream manifested. Hoping you
find bliss.
--Yictove My
Life Story (CD)
By Yictove with
Pink Brown
Blue
Print (Poems) By Yictove
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From the one book of his
I have, a
Blue Print,
of a life seemingly quickly lived but deeply
felt. Yictove became a coordinator of
readings at the Knitting Factory and at the
East Orange Public Library.
Soft spoken, introverted
it would seem, appearing, disappearing, yet
leaving his trace, singular, but like all of
us, leaving traces, prints of our blues our
blues lives. Now the brother follows the 9th
Ward of his native Big Easy, deeply
appreciated but now part of the legend of
what we took for granted some of the things
that made us happy, now gone gone gone.—Amiri
Baraka 8/1/07
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I will always remember the artistic genius that lived in
my brother. The way that he made words have new life
from the written to the spoken word was something of an
art in and of itself. As he spoke his voice boomed and
oozed giving words new meaning. The Knitting Factory and
the Library (East Orange Public Library) gave him the
opportunity to help others grow and cultivate in the
arts he so loved. He was a gentle teacher and had a gift
with people of all walks of life. Not long ago he was in
New Orleans and performed with Kid Jordan’s band an
impromptu jam session where he read When the Dewdrop
Drops. Though the performance was not rehearsed
it was amazing in every sense, exemplifying the artist
he truly was.
—Consuello
Battin: Sister
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Source: D.J. Soliloquy
(Thrown Stone Press, 1988)
This "Brother/Man" from New Orleans
who has touched spirits on one shore and the next has come touch
base with ours.
He speaks of the conditions that are within
our control, and the necessity for some changes of the urgency
in the need to learn to learn how to truly love ourselves in
order to be free enough to open up and learn to love each other.
Offering no panacea, he speaks of the reality of the hard work
intrinsic in the finding of solutions. He is a believer in the
wondrous results of honest attempts at communications with our
lovers, families and friends--a direct path to broader
communications with our people--A.H. Reynolds
Yictove has produced/hosted a poetry series on
cable in Newark, New Jersey, performed as a poet in the schools
courtesy of the Geraldine Dodge Foundation, worked as a creative
writing instructor in the Safe Haven Program/YMCA in East
Orange, New Jersey, and directed as poetry series in New York
City's Knitting Factory. Cover art:
Lorraine Williams |
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In Loving Memory of Yictove
Eugene Melvin Turk
February 28, 1946 – July 29, 2007
“Spirit is
an invisible force made visible in all life. Your life
was a wonderful example of everything good. And a
beautiful reflection of God’s love.”
Service Held: Wednesday,
August 1, 2007 at 10 a.m. Cremation Funeral:
Lombardi Funeral Home /336
Cleveland Avenue, Harrison, NJ
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Yictove's spirit
was called up today! Folks gathered around his daughter
in from China and his family and held them fast. Of
course, poetry was read and, of course, we all
acknowledged that, prolific artist that he was, Yictove—and
the word Yictove means "he will write" according to his
fellow Israelites—Yictove was watching, writing yet
another poem to document the moment, making us feel soft
and retrospective in places we had never felt before,
nodding our heads "yes" with a psychological bend to our
collective neck, and that he was doing all of this in
the name of love, without raising his voice, just
raising his pen. One sister sang a blues song.
Zayid Muhammad led
a clapping session . . . "Let us give this great man one
more round of applause." Amiri Baraka blessed him with
words.
Jacque Johnson was there
when Yictove died. Thank God someone was. She described
his death for us at the memorial service, and it sounds
as though he had a stroke (she could not understand his
speech) and a heart attack (after a while he just fell)
and the entire episode took about 30 minutes, I think
she reported. Jacque explained that he died
peacefully, as he lived.
He spoke to her as he was passing over uttering
beautiful words. We should all exit with such grace.
—Sandra West
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
By Gil Scott Heron
Shortly after we republished The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, Gil started to tell me about The Last Holiday, an account he was writing of a multi-city tour that he ended up doing with Stevie Wonder in late 1980 and early 1981. Originally Bob Marley was meant to be playing the tour that Stevie Wonder had conceived as a way of trying to force legislation to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. At the time, Marley was dying of cancer, so Gil was asked to do the first six dates. He ended up doing all 41. And Dr King's birthday ended up becoming a national holiday ("The Last Holiday because America can't afford to have another national holiday"), but Gil always felt that Stevie never got the recognition he deserved and that his story needed to be told. The first chapters of this book were given to me in New York when Gil was living in the Chelsea Hotel. Among the pages was a chapter called Deadline that recounts the night they played Oakland, California, 8 December; it was also the night that John Lennon was murdered. Gil uses Lennon's violent end as a brilliant parallel to Dr King's assassination and as a biting commentary on the constraints that sometimes lead to newspapers getting things wrong. —Jamie Byng, Guardian / Gil_reads_"Deadline" (audio) / Gil Scott-Heron
& His Music Gil Scott
Heron Blue Collar
Remember Gil Scott- Heron |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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