an artshow based on the life and work of alice coltrane, monument eternal, will be on view at the hammer gallery at UCLA in los angeles from february 9 to may 4, 2025. and akashic books are reissuing alice coltrane turiyasangitananda's book of that title with a new foreword on february 4th.
but that's assuming it hasn't all burnt down (of which there's no way of telling yet 'flames threaten UCLA campus' the grauniad). alice coltrane's ashram burnt down in a wildfire many years ago (2018).
and today is the anniversary of her death in 2007.
saturday afternoon/ evening horsemouth had a zoom beers session with howard (1 bottle). the topic of conversation shifted from james joyce to bram stoker (dracula) to mary shelley (frankenstein) to mary shelley's mum mary wollstonecraft.
horsemouth then got into a huge spiel about how wonderful mary wollstoncraft was including the letters written in sweden, norway and denmark (and the story before that - mary goes to the french revolution). horsemouth has since been reading the introduction to it by tone brekke and john mee on google books.
the wikipedia article on it discusses the influence of jean-jacques rousseau's reveries of a solitary walker upon mary wollstoncraft (which is another book of which horsemouth is a big fan). it makes him want to reread the wollstonecraft (and lend howard his copy of the rousseau).
branford marsalis interviews alice coltrane - they want to know about her jazz career and john, her subsequent years as a swamini, the ashram etc. they are not interested in.
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