MP3 Garrett - Caples

Caples combines surreal poems and narrative with hip hop beats, avant rock, and unexpected samples.

26 MP3 Songs
SPOKEN WORD: Poetry, HIP HOP/RAP: West Coast Rap



Details:
Publisher's Weekly has said that Oakland based writer Garrett Caples is "straddling the line between a Syd Barrett stream-of-sweet-nothings and the bachelor-machine eroticism of Duchamp." Of his work, the poet Jeff Clark was once heard to say: "Caples is a polymath."

He is also, in no particular order, an essayist (he's published long, sometimes notorious evaluations of Barbara Guest, Will Alexander, John Yau, Joe Brainard, Barrett Watten, Eliot Weinberger, Charles Bernstein, among others); with his partner Anna Naruta he's the maker of films, documentaries, music videos; with Naruta he's also the publisher of Kolourmeim Press; recently he produced a cd of boogified electronica entitled Lee Marvin; he's fashioned liner notes for a handful of indie rock albums; he's a scholar of Joyce and of Stein; more interestingly, he's a connoisseur of hip-hop (his column, "The Philistine's Guide," is a mainstay of Ninevolt Magazine, a bi-weekly music publication); he's a love poet, photographer, and collage-maker. His erotica has been anthologized. . He's been and likely will remain, as long as he's here--or there--a student of radical Oakland politics and culture