from "A Ghost's Leave Taking"

To make this I joined a short plaintive piece of new music with some lines excerpted from Sylvia Plath's poem. The full poem is longer and deals in greater detail with the state of awakening from sleep. To fit the music and as part of our series for Halloween and the Days of the Dead, I selected lines from Plath's poem that I heard as speaking of death and remembrance. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in a variety of styles. We've done over 850 of these pieces and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org