Cover to Cover Open Book with Nina Serrano – January 3, 2018

Special One-Hour Cover to Cover program, part two. Sretna Nova godina—Happy New Year in Serbo-Croatian! Another year rolls round our earth dwelling, bringing hope—we hope. Nina and Jack return with their call and responsive fol-de-rol, poems, songs, snappy patter all springing from KPFA’s interwoven pair. Serrano and Foley give out with the new vaudeville. Or as James Joyce wrote, riffing on “Rings on her fingers, / Bells on her toes, / She shall have music / Wherever she goes”:   Sevensinns in her singthings Plurabells on her prose Seashell ebb music Wayriver she flows   This is from Nina:   On New Year’s Day Unicorns Fly   The year ends in pajamas and nibbles of holiday leftovers
 and tying up loose ends
 Tossing out clutter that gets in the way
 of winged unicorns preparing for flight
 and the soaring journey of the herd
 Lured by the glittering cosmos above
 they take a galloping start
 leaving footprints in the dust of dawn
 and marks in time.   And this is from Jack:   FRIDA KAHLO VIA VANNA VINCI   Praise to the intersection Of High Art With Comic Book Praise to the woman Telling a woman ’s story Praise to the skill That refuses to stay within Unnecessary boundaries And leaps to make clear A woman’s life. Trotsky “was one of those Who touch your thighs Under the table” Diego “slept with everybody” “Are you also Jewish, Mr. Ford?” Vanna and Frida merge To tell Death everything, Show everything Under the Tehuana gown Retablo images Votive offerings At the shrine Of Myth Where Myth And Frida Merge. Cinema Has made Literature