James Allen Hall
speaker
2,199 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
James Allen Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On his forehead a tattooed cross furrows, diminished when he frowns.
He sings words dragged up from the bottom of his lungs.
I want a song that rolls through the night like a big Cadillac, past factories to the refineries, squatting on the bay, round and shiny as the coffee cup.
Sometimes when coffee cruises my mind visiting the most remote way stations, I think of my room as a calm arrival, each book and lamp in its place.
The calendar on my wall predicts no disaster, only another white square waiting to be filled like the desire that fills jail cells, the old arrest that makes me stare out the window, or want to try every bar down the street.
When I walk out of here in the morning, my mouth is bitter with sleeplessness and
Men surge to the factories and I'm too tired to look.
Fingers grip lunchbox handles, belt buckles gleam, wind rifles my uniform, and it's not romantic when the sun unlids the end of the avenue.
I'm fading in the morning's insinuations, collecting in the crevices of buildings in wrinkles, and every fault of
of this frail machinery.
It's wonderful.
Her endings are so beautiful.
Yeah.
And like sometimes it's it's so much beauty in her poems.
Like she just like stuns.
There's a I mean, there's a real reason that she and Mark Doty were friends.
Yeah.
You know?
Um, and she has poems, for instance, for for Mark's first husband, Wally Roberts, um, in in these in these books.
Um, I'm gonna read from her final book, The Only World, um, a poem called Chiffon.
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