Michael Ruby Reads from 'Close Your Eyes, Visions,' 2023

Today we present a new batch of recordings from Michael Ruby, which come from a 2023 session engineered by Chris Funkhouser. Here, in ninety-three individual tracks, we discover the majority of Ruby's latest collection, Close Your Eyes, Visions, which was published by Station Hill Press earlier this year.

As that comma in the middle of the title suggests, Ruby's latest consists of two discrete sequences, and the recordings are presented as such. Close Your Eyes is represented by fourteen poems in series running between four and ten minutes in length. Visions takes a very different form, with a grand total of seventy-eight poems, dates serving as titles, which span from 2007 to 2013.

On PennSound's Michael Ruby author page you'll find these sequences as well as complete studio recordings of many of the poet's books, including The Star-Spangled Banner, The Mouth of the Bay, The Edge of the Underworld, Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep, and Compulsive Words, along with readings from 2000 to the present.