Lyn Coffin reads Jiri Otron

Crackling with passion

by Rachel Feldbin Urist

posted 4/22/2012

Last November, Lyn Coffin read from her translations of Jiri [YEER-zhi] Orten's poems, published last year under the title White Picture (Night Publishing). She was joined by the singer-songwriter, Laz Slomovits, of Gemini, who set some of the poems to music. They return on April 22. Coffin, whose voice crackles with passion, brings to poems to life. Slomovitz' melodies are enhanced by his lyric tenor voice, accompanied by guitar. The child-like clarity of his voice and musical purity of the songs capture the poems' haunting

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