CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5191
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Headlight Anthology Collection
Series:
Headlight 24
Sub Series:
Headlight Anthology Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Misha Solomon in Headlight 24, 2023
Title Source:
Asset
Title Note:
As published in Headlight Anthology.
Language:
English
Production Context:
Studio recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright Educational Use Permitted (InC-EDU)
Notes:
Copyright by Headlight Anthology and contributor. Online reproduction and archiving allowed. Republications under different publishers must be authorized by the contributor.
CREATORS
Name:
Solomon, Misha
Role:
"Author",
"Performer"
Nation:
[""]
Notes:
Misha Solomon (he/him) is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, The /tƐmz/ Review, Yolk, and Vallum.
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Elbanhawy, Sherine
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Co-managing editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Eastwood, Miranda
Role:
"Producer",
"Recordist"
Notes:
Sound editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Pittella, Carlos A.
Dates:
1983-
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Co-managing editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Andrews, Olive
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Poetry editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Affonso, Alexandre
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Nonfiction editor of Headlight 24.
Name:
Ruby, Ariella
Role:
"Publisher",
"Producer"
Notes:
Fiction editor of Headlight 24.
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Digital
AV Type:
Audio
Playback Mode:
Mono
Sound Quality:
Excellent
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
00:03:20
Size:
2.2 MB
Bitrate:
145-185 kbps
Encoding:
MP3
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing an audio-recording of the piece "Tubes," by Misha Solomon, as published in Headlight Anthology, no. 24.
Notes:
MP3 also available at https://headlightanthology.ca/archive/n24/tubes/, accessed on June 15, 2023.
Title:
Tubes
Credit:
Misha Solomon
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Featured:
Yes
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
00:03:20
Size:
35.4 MB
Bitrate:
1411 kbps
Encoding:
WAV
Content:
This is file 1 of 1 containing an audio-recording of the piece "Tubes," by Misha Solomon, as published in Headlight Anthology, no. 24.
Title:
Tubes
Credit:
Misha Solomon
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
2023-06-02
Type:
Publication Date
Source:
Headlight website
LOCATION
Address:
1455 Boul. de Maisonneuve O., LB 641, Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8
Venue:
Concordia University, Department of English
Latitude:
45.4969331
Longitude:
-73.5783742
Notes:
Headlight Anthology operates out of Concordia’s graduate English Literature & Creative Writing department.
CONTENT
Contents:
Tubes
by Misha Solomon
I.
The Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter is a tube that contains another tube.
Photo of tube of Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter.
Rather, the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter is a tube contained inside another tube, but this latter outer tube carries the inner tube’s name.
Photo of open tube of Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter.
The outer tube can be manipulated (opened, twisted) to reveal the inner tube, but the inner tube’s identity is always plainly identified upon the outer tube. The outer tube can lie, in that at any point in time the inner tube could be depleted and yet the outer tube would still advertise its contents. The inner tube, again, is the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter and yet the inner tube can also not be the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter, in that it can be used up entirely. The outer tube, again, carries only the name of the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter, and therefore is not truly the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter, and yet the outer tube can never not be the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter, in that it always carries its name. It should also be noted that the Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter is applied to lips, which are essentially two tubes embedded in the flesh between the nose and the chin, two tubes that, when separated, allow access to a long inner tube that in turn connects to a near-endless system of inner tubes.
II.
The Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm is a tube in name only. Before use, the Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm more closely resembles a conventional tube, but the object continues to be called a tube even as it is flattened and warped.
Photo of tube of Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm.
The Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm, rather, is a viscous liquid contained in a tube that bears its name. This outer tube, upon application of pressure, extrudes the liquid in the shape of tube.
Photo of open tube of Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm.
The Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm, however, quickly loses its tubal shape as it is extruded and applied to the hand. This would not be an apt time to mention that the hand is home to five tubes, known as fingers, and contains a number of tubes in the form of bones, veins, and tendons. Even less apt would be the mention of pores. The inner/outer dilemma, heretofore known as the Inner/Outer Dilemma, as explained in the discussion of Om Argan + Tucuma Lip Butter, applies here as well.
III.
The India Mahdavi Caran d’Ache Swiss-Made Pen is a tube contained in a tube.
Photo of tube of India Mahdavi Caran d’Ache Swiss-Made Pen.
Both the inner tube, the India Mahdavi Caran d’Ache Swiss-Made Pen, and its outer tube, the pen’s protective and decorative case, carry the name of said inner tube.
Photo of open tube of India Mahdavi Caran d’Ache Swiss-Made Pen.
Complicating matters is the fact that the India Mahdavi Caran d’Ache Swiss-Made Pen almost definitely contains another tube, which in turn contains ink. Further complicating matters is the fact that the India Mahdavi Caran d’Ache Swiss-Made Pen has a golden tube, which, when pressed, reveals another pointed tube used to spread the ink, which is contained in the tube inside the tube. The doubly inner tube almost definitely does not carry the name of the tube, whereas the outer tube does carry the name of the tube. Is it relevant to add that the tube and its tube were given to me on the topmost storey of a large building, a rectangular tube, if you will, by a woman (remember the lips and hands, the tubes) who collects such tubes and who handed this tube over to me, her tubes grazing my tubes, after I remarked on the beauty of the tube, and that she did this likely because of her guilt over the dismal state of my grandfather’s finances? Guilt is in itself a tube, but I don’t know how or why.
NOTES
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Carlos A. Pittella
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
Solomon, Misha. Weeknight. Headlight Anthology, no. 24, 2023, pp. 18–21.