Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist and the author of many books including the novels Yiddish for Pirates and Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy, as well as the poetry collection For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario. For one long strange summer, he shared a shoesize with Allen Ginsberg.

Gary and Michael talk about being a body, a sense of the numinous, instrumental music, experimental poetry, and reading Lord of the Rings in your bathrobe while smoking a pipe of oregano.

Gary’s Five Songs.

• Il Gardellino, Op. 10 n. 3 - Concerto for flute, strings & b.c. in D major by Antonio Vivaldi.
• Alabama by John Coltrane.
• This or That by Donkey Lopez feat. Stuart Ross.
• String Quartet in Four Parts by John Cage.
• Consteelation by Ryan Barwin.

Show Notes.

Gary’s website and Twitter.

Gary’s music on Bandcamp.

Gary’s novels, Yiddish for Pirates and Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy.