Ice Mountain, by Marc Neys

Ice Mountain

by Marc Neys

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Album composed for the book Ice Mountain by Dave Bonta
Using several poems read by Dave Bonta or people close to him...

About the book:

davebonta.com/ice-mountain/

Trailer for the book: vimeo.com/196862871

Bonta's sparse lines mimic the stark realities of a season that tests the survival of its inhabitants, “the opossum out at mid-day,” or the rhododendron leaves “stripped /by starving deer.” This rich and complex forest is in direct contrast with the paucity of life on Ice Mountain under the turbines, which he aptly calls “flowers for the dead.” Ice Mountain may be lost, but Bonta’s poems provide inspiration to protect other mountains and their inhabitants.

Laura Jackson, President of Save Our Allegheny Ridges, a non-profit devoted to protecting Pennsylvania’s forested mountains from industrial development
In Bonta’s close, daily observations we are instructed in what still remains and what has gone missing. With spare language and his instinctive use of metaphor, Bonta demonstrates a consciousness willing to do battle with those who have, as he writes, pinned down Ice Mountain “with turbines / like a felled mammoth / the spears still quivering.” We should be thankful for such poems that remind us of the precious offering the world makes. I can’t think of anything better to do this winter than to follow this poet’s counsel and “get a bowl of fresh snow / not to eat but just to admire / like cut flowers.”

Todd Davis, author of Winterkill and In the Kingdom of the Ditch

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released May 8, 2019

Ice Mountain. Released August 18, 2017. All recordings, sounds, instruments, synths and tape treats by Marc Neys. Additional field recordings by Vladimir Kryuchev.
Voices by Dave Bonta, Bruce Bonta, Marcia Bonta and Esmée Sherrill. Words by Dave Bonta.

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