Bavarian Gentians

This is one of D. H. Lawrence's most esteemed poems, yet I found it exists in two versions, and the one I perform today is the lesser-known of the pair. This version differs from the other by a more raw and disturbing utilization of the Persephone myth where the sexual violence in that story is less smoothed over.  If you feel you might need a content warning for that, please consider this note one.  The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. This is the 850th officially-released example, but you can hear any of the others and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org