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Timewinds
by Lee Underwood
92 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9827343-1-5
Price $15.00 (includes shipping)
by Lee Underwood
92 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9827343-1-5
Price $15.00 (includes shipping)
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About the author
As a lead guitarist living in L.A. during the Sixties and early
Seventies, Lee Underwood toured and recorded with singer and
songwriter Tim Buckley for seven years. In 2004, he published
Blue Melody: Tim Buckley Remembered (Backbeat, San
Francisco), honored by Britain’s Uncut music magazine as one
of the ten best music books of the year. In 1990, Underwood co-
authored flutist Paul Horn’s autobiography, Inside Paul Horn
(HarperCollins), and received the Crystal Award for Music
Journalism. He completed his lengthy novel, Diamondfire: The
Journey, in 2005. In 2009, he completed a new book entitled
Diamonds in the Sky, presented in full on his new web site. He
continues to write essays, poetry, and short stories while living
with his wife in a modern cabin near Yosemite National Park,
California.
As a lead guitarist living in L.A. during the Sixties and early
Seventies, Lee Underwood toured and recorded with singer and
songwriter Tim Buckley for seven years. In 2004, he published
Blue Melody: Tim Buckley Remembered (Backbeat, San
Francisco), honored by Britain’s Uncut music magazine as one
of the ten best music books of the year. In 1990, Underwood co-
authored flutist Paul Horn’s autobiography, Inside Paul Horn
(HarperCollins), and received the Crystal Award for Music
Journalism. He completed his lengthy novel, Diamondfire: The
Journey, in 2005. In 2009, he completed a new book entitled
Diamonds in the Sky, presented in full on his new web site. He
continues to write essays, poetry, and short stories while living
with his wife in a modern cabin near Yosemite National Park,
California.
Lee once told me that half of success was
showing up. Here Lee shows up in his finest.
Not a rented tuxedo but the clothes of a natural
man in touch with his environment, his being
extending from the earth underfoot,
encompassing nature, and vaulting up into the
sky and touching the stars. He’s become a
master of the long-line and the short, the major
chord and the minor, the stripped bare and the
duded-out for high times on the town. His
poetry is the well-rounded extension of his
persona, all aspects of his being taking turns
coming to the fore and receding to make room
for the next view of his mountain, sometimes
shining snow-capped in the distance,
sometimes a scramble up sheer rock.
I hope you enjoy this collection of his poetry as
much as I have. It’s almost like meeting the man
himself.
-S. Preston Chase, poet, fine arts painter
showing up. Here Lee shows up in his finest.
Not a rented tuxedo but the clothes of a natural
man in touch with his environment, his being
extending from the earth underfoot,
encompassing nature, and vaulting up into the
sky and touching the stars. He’s become a
master of the long-line and the short, the major
chord and the minor, the stripped bare and the
duded-out for high times on the town. His
poetry is the well-rounded extension of his
persona, all aspects of his being taking turns
coming to the fore and receding to make room
for the next view of his mountain, sometimes
shining snow-capped in the distance,
sometimes a scramble up sheer rock.
I hope you enjoy this collection of his poetry as
much as I have. It’s almost like meeting the man
himself.
-S. Preston Chase, poet, fine arts painter
Central Pulse-Wing Insight
Energy’s laughterlight seeks
The central pulse-wing insight:
Suffering hurts, but lies;
Sustained misery is not bedrock;
Sorrow’s pain, neither path nor end:
Down deceives, destroys,
Hides ascending flowline lifelight:
Delve further, deeper, higher:
Deeper than gutfire — light and joy;
Higher than tears — beaming lovesmiles;
Stronger than defeat — compassion’s grace;
Hovering above bowed necks and bent backs —
Music-radiance reverberating earth and sky;
And far, far removed from darkland anguish —
Choirs
Angelic joy
Compassion Wholeness,
Unity
Energy’s laughterlight seeks
The central pulse-wing insight:
Suffering hurts, but lies;
Sustained misery is not bedrock;
Sorrow’s pain, neither path nor end:
Down deceives, destroys,
Hides ascending flowline lifelight:
Delve further, deeper, higher:
Deeper than gutfire — light and joy;
Higher than tears — beaming lovesmiles;
Stronger than defeat — compassion’s grace;
Hovering above bowed necks and bent backs —
Music-radiance reverberating earth and sky;
And far, far removed from darkland anguish —
Choirs
Angelic joy
Compassion Wholeness,
Unity