MP3 Garrett - Caples
Caples combines surreal poems and narrative with hip hop beats, avant rock, and unexpected samples.
26 MP3 Songs
SPOKEN WORD: Poetry, HIP HOP/RAP: West Coast Rap
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Publisher''s Weekly has said that Oakland based writer Garrett Caples is "straddling the line between a Syd Barrett stream-of-sweet-nothings and the bachelor-machine eroticism of Duchamp." Of his work, the poet Jeff Clark was once heard to say: "Caples is a polymath."
He is also, in no particular order, an essayist (he''s published long, sometimes notorious evaluations of Barbara Guest, Will Alexander, John Yau, Joe Brainard, Barrett Watten, Eliot Weinberger, Charles Bernstein, among others); with his partner Anna Naruta he''s the maker of films, documentaries, music videos; with Naruta he''s also the publisher of Kolourmeim Press; recently he produced a cd of boogified electronica entitled Lee Marvin; he''s fashioned liner notes for a handful of indie rock albums; he''s a scholar of Joyce and of Stein; more interestingly, he''s a connoisseur of hip-hop (his column, "The Philistine''s Guide," is a mainstay of Ninevolt Magazine, a bi-weekly music publication); he''s a love poet, photographer, and collage-maker. His erotica has been anthologized. . He''s been and likely will remain, as long as he''s here--or there--a student of radical Oakland politics and culture