Druid Craft/House Flags for Fathers, Matthew Klane & Warren A. Longmire
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Two offerings showcasing cadence, timbre, and fidelity, the otherwise difficult qualities for a book to exhibit. Sonic forward, cryptic and quick.
Klane's Druid Craft is a wasteland campfire songbook/spellbook assembled from text Yeats himself, excised from his many drafts of The Shadowy Waters. Postdiluvian fragments, played backwards and forwards, false starts for fortune-telling fortunes told. Longmire's House Flag For Fathers is a meditation on labor, and Black masculinities featuring recorded and live performances on synth, drum machine and harmonica. It features experimental noise project Betty's Eyes on guitar, and trombone. It is dedicated to Warren's late father, Orlando Longmire.
Thanks to David James Miller and Elis Press, with whom this cassette was jointly and collaboratively released. Elis Press is currently based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Matthew Klane lives and writes in Albany, NY. His books of poetry include Of the Day (Publication Studio 2025), Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-book My is online at FENCE. In 2025, he released his first record, Too Little Too Late, and his second record, Sunshine Committee, is forthcoming in March 2026, both available on your various streaming platforms. The founder and co-editor of Flim Forum Press, Matthew currently co-curates the poetry and performance series Salon Salvage.
Warren C. Longmire is a poet, performer, and technologist from North Philadelphia. His work has appeared in journals including Action, Spectacle, The Cleveland Review of Books, and The American Poetry Review. Warren was featured in The Best American Poetry 2021 (selected by Tracy K. Smith). His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop], was published by Bunny Presse in 2022. He is currently completing his MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Warren is the co-creator of the _mixlit performance series and House Poet, a spoken word dance party, in Philadelphia.
Druid Craft / House Flags for Fathers, Matthew Klane/Warren C. Longmire (split with Elis Press). This cassette was released jointly and collaboratively by Elis Press and Spiral Editions. Mastered in "Cleveland, OH" by David James Miller. J-cards printed and folded, and cassettes dubbed, too, in "Kingston, NY," the unceded and currently occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee, Mohican, Munsee Lenape, and Schaghticoke. Edition of 100 on chocolate swirl cassettes. Design by The Aliens.
Side A:House Flags for Fathers
Warren C. Longmire
0 - Four Of Pentacles
1:30 - Contract Rider Requests
5:27 - House Flag for Fathers
7:26 - Dirt Song
9:17 - Every Backyard in Norf Philadelphia (Recorded Live at the Ankle Pit. Featuring Betty's Eyes)
11:11 - Bitter Offerings
13:25 - Sodom Recorded Live at the Ankle Pit. (Featuring Betty's Eyes)
16:25 - Worship. I Believe It Keeps On Fast And Always With a New Thought
Side B:
Druid Craft
Matthew Klane
A Very Early
The Beginning of a Very Early
Fragments of an Early
Three Very Early Beginnings and a Related Fragment
Two Early Beginnings and a Torn Fragment Related
Several Beginnings in a Black Notebook
Two Further Beginnings
Some Related Fragments Further
The Synopsis
Extract from the Shadowy Waters
Fragments of LatterA Typed
A Further Typed
Expansions of the Middle
The First in the First and Three Related Fragments
The Shadowy Waters
Druid Craft was recorded by James Belflower in July 2025.
