More on: James McMichael

James McMichael was born in Pasadena, California, in 1939. After earning a doctorate at Stanford University, he taught at the University of California Irvine for over forty years. McMichael’s early work consists largely of shorter lyrics and sequences notable for their restraint, subtle musicality, and clarity of perception. These same qualities mark the more expansive…

—-You were about to be missed forever when you took just like that. I can give you tight if you want tight. At you out here to the sides of the little dick you are are souls not yet impossible, not dreamt. Though the times of their wellsprings are how far upstream, you’re in their…