Today we are excited to highlight 2025's first installment from Chris Funkhouser's ongoing project to document the work of his prolific friend and neighbor, George Quasha. If you're a PennSound Daily regular, you have been following this endeavor through periodic releases that trace all the way back to 2017. This newest session — recorded in Barrytown, NY on December 13, 2024 — yielded a 90+ minute recording of syntactic sentience in its entirety. Excerpts from syntactic sentience appeared in issue #3 of New Issue: The Biannual Journal of American Poetry in 2023.
You'll find this new track and many more recordings on PennSound's George Quasha author page, along with lengthy selections from many of his books including laryngeal uterus of the word, strange beauty by stranger attraction, waking from myself, gnostalgia for the present, not even rabbits go down this hole, dowsing axis, hearing other, the ghost in between, verbal paradise, glossodelia attract: preverbs, the daimon of moment: preverbs, scorned beauty comes up behind: preverbs, things done for themselves: preverbs, and polypoikilos: matrix in variance: preverbs, among others. Click here to start listening.
