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'Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles' by Mark Terrill  Mark is a native Californian and former
merchant seaman, and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he's worked
as a shipyard welder, road manager for bands, cook and postal worker.
Mark is married with Uta, his lovely German wife.Mark was a participant in Paul Bowles's writing workshop at The American School in Tangier, Morocco, in 1982 and his new chap book 'Here to learn: Remembering Paul Bowles' is his account of the classes, and his time spent in Tangier with Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet and Claude Nathalie Thomas, after the classes ended. Mark's writing style unfolds around this thoroughly enjoyable book, which reveals further facets of Paul's personality, and his interaction with Mark and some of the other students on the Course.
The book also includes 14 photos of street
and medina scenes in
Tangier, plus another 5 photos of Mark with Paul Bowles, at Paul's home.
Another good thing about Mark's publication, is that the book also includes a CD, which has 13 tracks of the music known as the 'Music of Morocco' reel-to-reels, which were recorded onto a tape cassette especially for Mark, by Paul Bowles himself (from Paul's own reels) in 1985, during one of Mark's further visits to Tangier. Mark has digitised the tracks for optimum enchanced quality of sound. This CD is released with permission of Irene Herrmann and the US Library of Congress. This book is currently out of print. we hope that it will be reissued in the near future as people have been asking for copies. This music will be very much welcomed by people who like the ethnic music of Morocco. More
Reviews 'Here to Learn' is an intriguing
hybrid of memoir,
story and tribute. In recounting his friendship with Paul Bowles,
Terrill captures something of the essence of the enigmatic and elusive
writer/composer; through anecdote and insight, and with graceful
simplicity, he brings to life the man veiled in Moroccan mystery-no
small feat, as anyone familiar with Bowles and his work must know.'
John
Bennett, Vagabond Press 'Through this literary and musical
chronicle, Mark Terrill
ushers us into inner sanctums of a remarkably eclectic and sensuous
creative force. I'm talking about Paul Bowles-expatriate author,
musician, archivist and explorer in the realms of psychedelia and
cultural epiphanies. Terrill's journey to discover Bowles, and his own
artistic geography, is a trip well worth the taking.'
-Don
Williams, New Millennium Writings Mark's poems, prose, translations and
criticism have appeared in City
Lights Review, Bombay Gin, Rattapallax, Exquisite
Corpse, Yefief,
Gargoyle, Denver Quarterly, Partisan Review,
Talisman, Rain Taxi and many others, as well as in
several anthologies, including the recent Fake-City Syndrome,
from Red Hen Press. His memoir of Paul Bowles, Here to Learn,
was originally published by Green
Bean Press. Other recent
books include Bread &
Fish (prose poems), from The Figures, Kid With Gray Eyes (poems),
from Cedar Hill Publications and a collection of his translations of
the poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Like a Pilot, from Sulphur
River Literary Review Press.
Read Mark's poem to
Paul Bowles 'The Sweltering Sky' at Poetry Flash
Read
more about the original recordings by Paul Bowles from 1959 |
