Zither Mood

Poetry. CD ROM format. Texts, audio poems, blues songs & video from Wanda Phipps. Poetry and music in ZITHER MOOD are supplemented by skillful video collaborations between Phipps and filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz. Phipps layers her lyrics with imagery from live description, memory and dreams. Urbane and often sexy, ZITHER MOOD cuts sly and playful deals between love and ahard place, textured with honest miscommunications and deliberate mishearings. Sharon Mesmer writes of Phipps -- No matter how much things are thrown up for grabs, they endup falling into place serendipitously. Phipps' strong card is erotic synchronicity: She lines up parallel occurrences and writes between, according to Kimberly Lyons. Uncompromising and relentless, as Michael Rothenberg puts it, Phipps composes poetry you can dance to.